Kid ... Comics will break your heart.
Interpretation
Comics evoke deep emotional connections, often leading to heartbreak through their powerful narratives.
Jack Kirby's quote highlights the profound impact that comics can have on their readers. Through storytelling and art, comics can express complex emotions and experiences, leading to a sense of heartbreak as readers become attached to characters and their journeys. This phrase signifies not just the entertainment value of comics, but also their ability to resonate at a deeply emotional level, mirroring real-life struggles and joys.
In practice
In a discussion about the emotional depth of comic book stories.
I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going to create any great masterpieces like Rembrandt or Gauguin. I thought comics was a common form of art, and strictly American in my estimation, because America was the home of the common man - and show me the common man that can't do a comic. So comics is an American form of art that anyone can do with a pencil and paper.
Superman is going to live forever. They'll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt, in that respect, I was doing the same thing. I wanted to be known. I wasn't going to sell a comic that was going to die quickly.
It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.
I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.
If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal βem. Take those hands.
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.
I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.
The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poetβs eyes.
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.
I always thought I'd eventually learn how to draw really well, and despite constant evidence to the contrary, I just kept on trying. If you're too good at anything, you don't have to think about the process, whereas I feel like I spend my life with my head under the bonnet, trying to understand how everything works.
Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can't ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn't written anything for a year.
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