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Goodbye, Mr. Ed
“Do not let the fact that things were not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be, stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.”
—ROBERT HENRI, THE ART SPIRIT The genuine magic of a first encounter with a work of art is in seeing all of the stages of prolonged struggle that were required to make it slammed into a single instant of viewing the finished work at once, as a singular vision. It's difficult to imagine the breaks and interruptions, the trips to the grocery store that pulled the artist away, the concessions to sleep that derailed those moments of righteous craftsmanship which came ...
Your Fifth Chance
If you've got five chances, throw four at whatever you can reasonably hit. But, as for the fifth… In 1991, in broad daylight, I'm pounding on the heavy glass doors of Spivak's Art Supply, a store that had been open for many years until this very day, the one day I really have to get inside.All of the windows and doors are papered over from the inside and the lights are out.My fist is meeting the glass with the kind of desperation that gets people arrested and put in jail, every day of the week. I don't hear any noise at all from inside.Boiling over all at once, I run around to the alley in back and up the short ramp where trucks had former...
Chinese Horoscope Contest Finale
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Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby was born Jacob Kurtzberg on August 28th, 1917 in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He was a comic book artist, writer, and editor; one of the most innovative and influential creators in the history of comics. Growing up poor in New York City, Jacob Kurtzberg entered the newly emerging comics industry in the 1930s. He drew various comics features under different pen names, finally settling on Jack Kirby. In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics. During the 1940s, Kirby, often collaborating with Simon,...
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