something you can observe about jack's penciling work during this time is how we kind of stopped trying so hard he was unhappy at marvel in NUMBER_TOKEN the same year we went to the moon we went to the moon in NUMBER_TOKEN. not important jack kirby moved out west he was having issues back at marvel marvel comics were huge and a lot of that attention that the company was getting highlighted well not jack kirby or really any other artists at marvel but it highlighted stan lee who was viewed as the sole genius behind the company's success artists like jack kirby were seen only as scribes who helped bring stan's ideas to life the brains and the creativity of one man lie behind all these characters and more thankfully it's become more and more common knowledge these days that the reality was the opposite kirby plotted and drew the comics while stan just wrote the dialogue but stan was the editor he did everything he could to put his face out there in the public eye he was charming and charismatic jack kirby was anything but charming he was curt and grumpy and grew increasingly frustrated with marvel comics and it showed in his work artist joe synod remember him from a couple minutes ago frequently inked kirby's pencils for their work on fantastic four that was a good time he broke down one of their later issues together in fantastic four number NUMBER_TOKEN and it's it's insightful to say the least there's almost no backgrounds on this page there are no full figure shots except on panel NUMBER_TOKEN. these are not good layouts from jack i noticed it at the time too i inked this page very closely to the way jacket penciled it very crisply his pencils were still tight but there's no spirit here he did some nice art after that but he was winding down he wasn't putting as much into the art after that and the thing is it's not hard to understand why kirby was losing enthusiasm working for marvel especially because the new contract that he was expected to sign in NUMBER_TOKEN said that not only would wages not increase but also marvel could just fire him without warning whenever they felt like it if only there was a way for an organized group of workers to unite and have a collective voice in their job that would seek out economic and workplace justice demand higher pay improved work hours and better contracts than what jack kirby was dealt but something like that sounds cool and good so obviously it didn't exist but the thing that continued to eat at him was the lack of recognition for his work around this time he had moved out to california as i mentioned to try and make it in hollywood hoping that some head of a production studio somewhere might have grown up on the marvel comics that he drew and would recognize him as a valuable talent in the film industry yeah after comics after collage art kirby was searching for even more new creative outlets and believed film was the next thing that would light that fire jack kirby was always searching always hungry for the next creative venture not that the move helped much for his collage art according to evan yay kirby would lament all i can find around here are knitting magazines you can't make a good spaceship out of yarn it's clobbering time this is like back on yancey street i'm
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