Last month , Heavy Metal cartridge announce it would be bring people of color versions of Jack Kirby ’s iconic Lord of Light ( and later on Operation Argo ) artistic production to print the very first time . Before that happens though , io9 is proud to discover some of the image — as well as how you may get your hand on print of it at SDCC this year .
Kirby ’s art is n’t just incredibly unearthly and grand — it has an important place in account as part of the 1979 Operation Argo ( which you might be familiar with from therecent Oscar - win motion-picture show ) . Originally drawn as oeuvre for Barry Ira Geller ’s project film ( and theme park ) adaptation of the Roger Zelazny novel Lord of Light , the artistry was ultimately used as part of a CIA mission to extract hostages from the American embassy in Iran as concept art for a fake pic , Argo . The phony production was used to allow CIA factor to infiltrate the nation undetected .
Although we ’ve see much of Kirby ’s concept workbefore , this is the first metre ever that it ’s been color in — and colorist Mark Englert has doone a pretty fantastic caper of emphasising the outlandishness of Kirby ’s fine art with a brightly psychedelic colour palette . Here ’s Geller himself on Kirby ’s workplace for Lord of Light :
And so I told Ray Bradbury , one of my advisor to Science Fiction Land in 1979 , ‘ Imagination married to Reality produce the Future . ’ That is my highest belief . Science fable is the bang-up inventive medium make up . ” And I told Jack Kirby — and he agreed — just like Buddha who came 2500 hundred days ago and changed the awareness landscape of the world , in 30 days , Technology and Science Fiction with become Scientific Technology and will have changed the consciousness of masses everywhere . Guess what ? Here it is 35 years later — that realness has come true . Jack Kirby ’s Lord of Light draftsmanship , all products of our mutual pattern , are a phenomenal will to everything we wanted to do !
And Heavy Metal CEO Jeff Krelitz on bringing the work to Comic con :
We could n’t necessitate for a good body of a work for the retentive overdue launching of Jack Kirby in Heavy Metal . As a tip of the jacket to one of my pet artists and the epoch of the former 1970 ’s , I wanted to quetch off our year farsighted prints computer programme at Comic Con with a blacklight interpretation as psychedelic as the story itself .
Before the artistic production survive to photographic print in Heavy Metal Magazine # 276 ( the first clock time Kirby ’s work will have ever been impress in the magazine ) , Heavy Metal will be bringing super limited edition blacklight prints of the artwork to San Diego Comic Con . Each of the 14 pieces of art will be useable in runs of 50 and will cost $ 210 apiece — and while you ’ll be able-bodied to preorder them online , the prints can only be collect in person from Heavy Metal ’s booth ( # 1529 ) at the show next calendar month . Here ’s a few more awesome pieces of art for you to ogle — do n’t bury to click the magnifying glass in the top left turning point of each image to enlarge it :
you could regain more atHeavy Metal ’s website , where preorders for the print will go live at 7 am PDT/10am EDT on Monday , June 22nd .
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