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Jason Ladwig
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| Posted: 24 February 2026 at 5:55pm | IP Logged | 1
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For those who maybe hadn't heard, the folks behind Comic Art Fans launched the Jack and Roz Kirby awards at this year's OAX.
There are 7 categories and our esteemed host was the first winner of the Legacy award of Creator.
Congrats JB! Well deserved.
(I dont think the site has been updated to reflect the winners)
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 24 February 2026 at 7:09pm | IP Logged | 2
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An honor, of course, tho the award itself is….odd. It’s a model of Kirby’s drawing board and chair, but someone decided to festoon them with what I take to be an attempt at a 3D rendering of Kirby Krackle. Unfortunately, it looks kinda like floating vomit!
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Brian Price
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| Posted: 24 February 2026 at 10:45pm | IP Logged | 3
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I saw that on Chris Ryall's Instagram page but couldn't find any info on who they had been awarded to. I was hoping you would be a recipient JB. I couldn't think of anyone more deserving. Congrats John!
But yeah, spot on about the oddness of the cosmic vomit. I totally didn't get that it was supposed to be Kirby Krackle until you said it.
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Joe Murray
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| Posted: 25 February 2026 at 11:24am | IP Logged | 4
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Toss the floaty vomit and just add a cigar chompin’ Kirby.
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John Byrne
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Just the chair and board would be fine. Simple and elegant.
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Brian ONeill
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| Posted: 25 February 2026 at 9:56pm | IP Logged | 6
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Before I knew it was called 'Kirby Krackle', I thought it was some effect of explosions/radiation making molecules visible as...'big dots'.
Edited by Brian ONeill on 25 February 2026 at 9:57pm
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 25 February 2026 at 10:16pm | IP Logged | 7
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I had two big moments of revelation with Kirby Krackle. One was learning it was called that (tho I know not whence came the term), and the other was realizing it wasn’t the “dots” that were important, but the negative space they define.
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Peter Hicks
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In one of the Morrison/Porter issues of JLA, someone is walking through the trophy room, all full of glass cases of significant objects from past adventures. One case contained Kirby Krackle, and was labelled as such.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 26 February 2026 at 2:34am | IP Logged | 9
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Eyeball roll emoji
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 26 February 2026 at 6:37am | IP Logged | 10
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Morrison never let an opportunity to travel up his own backside pass by.
Once may have been ok, a career of such got very boring for me, very
quickly, and I stopped reading him pretty early.
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