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.
Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.
There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probaby, each of them, a hundred records, and never be repeated. There's enough songs. Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.
There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.
Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.
What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.
I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
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