Street Code Explained

Street Code is both the short, ten page autobiographical comic story and the 2009 mini-comic by American writer-artist Jack Kirby. Both Bill Sienkiewicz and Jeff Zapata consider it among Kirby's greatest works,[1] and it supplanted all other works in the minds of Jack and wife Roz. Roz appreciated it so much she framed the two-page spread from the story and gave it pride of place on her wall.[2] It was commissioned by Richard Kyle in 1983 but did not see print until 1990 in Argosy vol.3 #2, with lettering by Bill Spicer. The story was shot from Kirby's pencils. Kyle intended to print it with a colored tone behind it, which Kirby requested not be too colorful, but rather drab to suit the times. Kyle said

The strip has been printed on four occasions:

Notes and References

  1. Book: ed. by John Morrow, Jon B. Cooke . Kirby100: 100 Top Creators Celebrate Jack Kirby's Greatest Work . 28 August 2017 . TwoMorrows Publishing . 192–194.
  2. Book: Evanier . Mark . Kirby: King of Comics . 2008 . . 9780810994478 . 23.
  3. Web site: Hoppe . Rand . Jack Kirby's Street Code at MoCCA . Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center . 30 May 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181009154339/https://kirbymuseum.org/blog/2009/06/11/jack-kirbys-street-code-at-mocca/ . 9 October 2018 . live . 11 June 2009.