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This is Fei, created by Said Dibinga and me for a short story. Here she is in a page from that story, titled "Kill The Witch." She may be appearing in a short film soon. Casting is already underway.

The comic is in black and white, so she remains in black and white here.

Draw Your Original Character is the Day 31 prompt for #KirbyArtTributes

The best way to honor the King is to own your creations. Today's the day to showcase your creativity and creations.

#MakeAugustJackKirbyMonth #KirbyKreatives #KirbyKrusaders #jackkirby #originalcharacters #copyright #ComicArt #madeinaffinity #xppen #xppentablet #artdigital by @abbastudios

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Scarlet Witch: Bad Luck Never Looked This Good

Wanda Maximoff entered Marvel Comics in X-Men #4, cover-dated March 1964, courtesy of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. And right from the start, Kirby gave her something more interesting than a simple “evil mutant” label.

Wanda and her twin brother Pietro, Quicksilver, were members of Magneto’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, but neither one seemed particularly thrilled about the job. Magneto had rescued them from an angry mob in their homeland, leaving the twins feeling indebted to him.

Wanda’s power was wonderfully vague. She pointed, concentrated, and something went wrong. Machinery failed. Objects fell. Accidents happened. Marvel called them “hexes,” giving Kirby plenty of room to turn bad luck into visual chaos.

Then came Avengers #16 in May 1965. Wanda and Pietro left villainy behind and joined Hawkeye and Captain America in the radically rebuilt Avengers lineup later nicknamed “Cap’s Kooky Quartet.” Kirby provided layouts for the issue, with Dick Ayers finishing the interior art.

That shift may be the most interesting thing about early Scarlet Witch. Kirby and Lee introduced her as an antagonist, but they never locked her there. Within barely a year, Wanda goes from reluctant Brotherhood member to Avenger.

Not bad for a woman whose original superpower was basically pointing at something and making its day considerably worse.

Scarlet Witch is the prompt for Day 29 of The Fourth Annual Kirby Art Tribute Month.
To join in, tag your art with #KirbyArtTributes and #AugustJackKirbyMonth. Prompts are flexible because Kirby’s universe is much too wild to stay inside the lines.

#JackKirby #ScarletWitch #X-Men #Avengers #MarvelComics #ComicArt #clipstudiopaint #xppen #xppentablet #artdigital by @abbastudios

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Thena: The Eternal Who Chose Her Own Side

Jack Kirby introduced Thena in The Eternals #5 in 1976, and she arrives looking every bit like someone who belongs in Kirby’s world of gods, monsters, impossible machines, and family drama on a cosmic scale.

Thena is the daughter of Zuras, ruler of Olympia, and one of the Eternals’ strongest warriors. But Kirby gives her something more interesting than a sword. She thinks for herself.

That becomes especially clear when Kro enters the picture.

Kro is a Deviant warlord, which should make him Thena’s natural enemy. Instead, Kirby gives them history, attraction, mistrust, and a relationship complicated enough to make Romeo and Juliet look straightforward. In The Eternals #6, Thena and Kro even announce a truce between their peoples. By issue #10, Kirby is still playing with the question of where Thena’s loyalties really lie.

And that is what makes her fun to me. She is not just “the warrior woman.” She can fight, fly, teleport, project energy, and survive things that would flatten ordinary humans, but Kirby also lets her make choices that put her at odds with the expectations around her.

In the 1977 Eternals Annual, Thena teams with two Deviants, Reject and Karkas, against Zakka the Tool-Master and his time-displaced troublemakers. Jack the Ripper, Attila the Hun, Tutinax.

Kirby made Thena powerful, regal, stubborn, curious, and just unpredictable enough to keep everybody nervous.

Thena is the prompt for Day 29 of The Fourth Annual Kirby Art Tribute Month.

To join in, tag your art with #KirbyArtTributes and #AugustJackKirbyMonth. Prompts are flexible because Kirby’s universe is much too wild to stay inside the lines.

#JackKirby #Thena #Eternals #MarvelComics #ComicArt #clipstudiopaint #xppen #xppentablet #artdigital by @abbastudios

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SERSI: THE ETERNAL WHO CAME FOR THE HUMANS

When Jack Kirby introduced Sersi in The Eternals #3 in 1976, he didn’t bring her in like some distant cosmic goddess staring down at humanity from a marble throne. He dropped her right into Manhattan society, where she was already famous for throwing parties.

That tells you almost everything about her.

Sersi is an Eternal, one of the powerful beings created through Celestial intervention in early humanity, but she has something many of her fellow Eternals don’t seem to understand: she genuinely likes us. The noise, the fashion, the drama, the short lives, the whole messy human package.

Kirby originally spelled her name “Sersy” in that first appearance. She’s also presented as the inspiration for Circe, the enchantress of Greek mythology, which fits perfectly with her signature ability to rearrange matter and transform one substance into another. Kirby had even drawn a Circe years earlier in Strange Tales #109, though Marvel later connected that earlier character to Sersi through continuity.

Her debut is classic Kirby contrast. While Celestials are judging worlds and Deviants are plotting underground, Sersi is on the West Side throwing one of the best parties in town. Ikaris shows up and asks her to protect Margo Damian. Cosmic crisis meets cocktail party. Somehow, with Kirby, those two things belong on the same page.

Sersi later becomes an Avenger, but that comes after Kirby’s original run. The essential Sersi is already there in 1976: immortal, dangerously powerful, glamorous, curious, and far more interested in living among humans than ruling over them.

Sersi is the prompt for Day 28 of The Fourth Annual Kirby Art Tribute Month.

To join in, tag your art with #KirbyArtTributes and #AugustJackKirbyMonth. Prompts are flexible because Kirby’s universe is much too wild to stay inside the lines.

#JackKirby #Sersi #Eternals #Avengers #MarvelComics #ComicArt #clipstudiopaint #xppen #xppentablet #artdigital by @abbastudios

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Goldie Gold: The Richest Girl on Saturday Morning

In 1981, Jack Kirby traded cosmic gods for a teenage newspaper heiress.
Goldie Gold is 18, fabulously wealthy, publisher of The Gold Street Journal, and apparently incapable of sitting behind a desk while somebody else gets the story. With ace reporter Jack Travis and her dog Nugget at her side, she travels the world chasing criminals, strange mysteries, ancient curses, and anything else likely to ruin a perfectly good vacation.

The series came from a concept by Steve Gerber, with Kirby providing designs after his work on Thundarr the Barbarian. And Kirby did more than draw the stars. Surviving Ruby-Spears production art shows him designing Goldie’s costumes, supporting characters, villains, gadgets and vehicles, including an inflatable submarine and a jet motorcycle. Give Jack Kirby a rich girl with unlimited resources and, naturally, he starts inventing toys.

Goldie is also unusual for 1981 Saturday morning television. She may have money, gadgets and Action Jack nearby, but she is not waiting around to be rescued. She owns the paper, bankrolls the expeditions and goes looking for trouble herself.
Goldie Gold and Action Jack ran for 13 episodes on ABC from September to December 1981. Short run, wonderfully odd premise, and another reminder that Kirby’s imagination did not stop at the edge of a comic-book page.

Goldie Gold is the prompt for Day 27 of The Fourth Annual Kirby Art Tribute Month.

To join in, tag your art with #KirbyArtTributes and #AugustJackKirbyMonth. Prompts are flexible because Kirby’s universe is much too wild to stay inside the lines.

#JackKirby #GoldieGoldandActionJack #animation #RubySpears #cartoons #PinUpArt #clipstudiopaint #xppen #xppentablet #artdigital by @abbastudios

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Princess Zanda: Kirby’s Collector Queen

When Jack Kirby returned to Black Panther in 1977, he apparently decided T’Challa’s first solo series needed ancient mysteries, time travel, impossible technology and one very determined princess.

Enter Princess Zanda.

Zanda makes her debut in Black Panther #1 as one of the Collectors, a wealthy bunch obsessed with rare and dangerously powerful artifacts. Her target is King Solomon’s Brass Frog, which sounds like something you would put on a shelf until Kirby reveals that it is actually a time machine.

Naturally.

Zanda does not arrive quietly. She comes after T’Challa and fellow Collector Abner Little with armed men, determined to take the Frog for herself. Then somebody activates the thing and out pops Hatch-22, a powerful being from six million years in the future.

By issue #2, Zanda shifts from adversary to uneasy ally as they try to send him home.

Kirby keeps expanding her world. By Black Panther #4, we reach Zanda’s African kingdom of Narobia, meet more of the Collectors and promptly stumble into another wild expedition involving a lost city of samurai. Because with Kirby, apparently one impossible archaeological adventure is never enough.

That is what makes Zanda fun. She is glamorous, imperious, dangerous and curious enough to chase history itself. She is not waiting around to be rescued. She wants the prize, she has the resources to get it, and if the Black Panther happens to be standing in the way, well… that just makes the chase more interesting.

Princess Zanda is the prompt for Day 26 of The Fourth Annual Kirby Art Tribute Month.

To join in, tag your art with #KirbyArtTributes and #AugustJackKirbyMonth. Prompts are flexible because Kirby’s universe is much too wild to stay inside the lines.

#JackKirby #PrincessZanda #BlackPanther #MarvelComics #ComicArt #clipstudiopaint #xppen #xppentablet #artdigital by @abbastudios

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AVIA: THE WOMAN WHO CHANGED THE FOURTH WORLD

Avia doesn’t get many pages in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World, but what happens to her changes everything.

She appears in New Gods #7, “The Pact,” as the wife of Izaya the Inheritor, long before he becomes the peaceful Highfather we know. Kirby introduces them during a rare quiet moment on New Genesis. Avia asks her warrior husband to sing for her. It’s tender, almost domestic... which, in a Kirby comic, probably means somebody from Apokolips is about to ruin the afternoon.

Enter Steppenwolf.

His attack kills Avia and leaves Izaya wounded. Her death becomes the spark that sends New Genesis and Apokolips into full-scale war. Izaya eventually hunts down Steppenwolf, but revenge doesn’t bring peace. The devastation finally drives him to reject the warrior’s path, seek the Source, and become Highfather.

That journey leads to the Pact with Darkseid and the exchange of their sons, the bargain that sends young Scott Free to Apokolips and Orion to New Genesis.
So Avia may not throw a punch, command an army, or fire a Mega-Rod. She doesn’t need to. Kirby makes her loss personal enough to move gods, start a war, and help reshape the destiny of the Fourth World.

Avia is the prompt for Day 25 of The Fourth Annual Kirby Art Tribute Month.

To join in, tag your art with #KirbyArtTributes and #AugustJackKirbyMonth. Prompts are flexible because Kirby’s universe is much too wild to stay inside the lines.

#JackKirby #Avia #NewGods #FourthWorld #MisterMiracle #DCComics #ComicArt #clipstudiopaint #xppen #xppentablet #artdigital by @abbastudios

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Beautiful Dreamer: Kirby’s Quiet Weapon Against Darkseid

Beautiful Dreamer is the prompt for Day 24 of The Fourth Annual Kirby Art Tribute Month.

To join in, tag your art with #KirbyArtTributes and #AugustJackKirbyMonth. Prompts are flexible because Kirby’s universe is much too wild to stay inside the lines.

Beautiful Dreamer may look like the calm one in Jack Kirby’s Forever People, but Darkseid knows better.

She debuts with the rest of the team in The Forever People #1, cover-dated February–March 1971, and she is already important enough for Darkseid to kidnap. Why? Because her mind may be capable of understanding the Anti-Life Equation. That puts the soft-spoken Dreamer on the radar of one of the nastiest beings in Kirby’s Fourth World.

That contrast is what makes her fun. Big Bear has the muscle. Mark Moonrider has the attitude. Beautiful Dreamer can reach into another person’s perceptions and make an illusion feel real. Kirby uses that ability for everything from disguising the Forever People as ordinary Earth kids to fooling Darkseid’s Justifiers. Quiet does not mean harmless.

And there’s something wonderfully Kirby about the idea. Darkseid wants to crush free will through Anti-Life, while Beautiful Dreamer fights with imagination, empathy, and the ability to change what people believe they are seeing. One wants control. The other opens possibilities.

She also gets one of Kirby’s more intriguing early Fourth World teases. A pin-up in The Forever People #4 suggests that Dreamer and Darkseid both hold keys to the war’s ultimate outcome. Kirby never gets to finish the saga as originally planned, so that thread remains one of those great Fourth World “what ifs.”

#JackKirby #BeautifulDreamer #ForeverPeople #FourthWorld #MisterMiracle #DCComics #ComicArt #clipstudiopaint #xppen #xppentablet #artdigital by @abbastudios

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GRANNY GOODNESS: LOVE, APOKOLIPS STYLE

Granny Goodness is the prompt for Day 23 of The Fourth Annual Kirby Art Tribute Month.

To join in, tag your art with #KirbyArtTributes and #AugustJackKirbyMonth. Prompts are flexible because Kirby’s universe is much too wild to stay inside the lines.

Jack Kirby introduced Granny in Mister Miracle #2 in 1971, placing her right at the center of Scott Free’s nightmare childhood. She runs the “Orphanage” on Apokolips, where children aren’t nurtured so much as hammered into obedient servants of Darkseid. Scott was one of her pupils. The problem for Granny is that he learned the one lesson she never intended to teach him: how to escape.

That makes her more than another supervillain waiting around to throw a punch. Granny weaponizes affection, discipline, guilt and fear. She calls herself a mother figure while treating cruelty as love. It’s funny in that warped Kirby way, until you think about it for more than five seconds.

By Mister Miracle #6, Kirby had unleashed the Female Furies, Granny’s terrifying graduates. Barda’s rebellion makes the insult even worse. First Scott escapes Granny’s control, then one of her finest warriors follows him.

Visually, Granny is pure Kirby contradiction: grandmotherly name, broad grin, old-fashioned dress... and the presence of somebody who could turn detention into a combat sport.

Granny Goodness is one of Kirby’s nastiest jokes. On Apokolips, even “love” comes with shackles.

#JackKirby #GrannyGoodness #FourthWorld #MisterMiracle #DCComics #ComicArt #clipstudiopaint #xppen #xppentablet #artdigital #curvywomen #thickwomen #thickwomendoitbetter by @abbastudios

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Bernadeth: The Quiet Blade of Apokolips

Bernadeth is the prompt for Day 22 of The Fourth Annual Kirby Art Tribute Month.

To join in, tag your art with #KirbyArtTributes and #AugustJackKirbyMonth. Prompts are flexible because Kirby’s universe is much too wild to stay inside the lines.

Some Female Furies announce themselves by smashing through walls. Bernadeth looks like she would rather stand back, let everybody else make noise, then quietly decide where to stick the knife.

Jack Kirby introduced Bernadeth in Mister Miracle #6 in early 1972 alongside Lashina, Stompa, and Mad Harriet, when Barda’s old teammates came to Earth hunting their former leader and Scott Free. She was part of Kirby’s wonderfully dangerous answer to the usual superhero “girl squad.” The Furies were not sidekicks. They were Granny Goodness-trained warriors from Apokolips, and every one of them brought a different flavor of trouble.

Bernadeth’s specialty was the Fahren-Knife, a weapon that could burn its victim from the inside. Kirby later brought her back in Mister Miracle #8 during Barda’s rescue mission on Apokolips, where Bernadeth used the blade to keep Kanto, Darkseid’s master assassin, at bay. That tells you something. If Kanto is across the room and Bernadeth pulls a knife, even Kanto pays attention.

She is also DeSaad’s sister, which may be the least reassuring family connection in the entire Fourth World. Compared with Stompa’s brute force, Harriet’s lunacy, or Lashina’s whips, Bernadeth feels colder and more calculating. She does not need to be the loudest Fury in the room.

She just needs to be close enough.

#JackKirby #Bernadeth #FourthWorld #MisterMiracle #DCComics #ComicArt #clipstudiopaint #xppen #xppentablet #artdigital by @abbastudios

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Mad Harriet: Apokolips’ Cackling Wild Card

Mad Harriet is the prompt for Day 20 of The Fourth Annual Kirby Art Tribute Month.

To join in, tag your art with #KirbyArtTributes and #AugustJackKirbyMonth. Prompts are flexible because Kirby’s universe is much too wild to stay inside the lines.

Some villains enter a room. Mad Harriet looks more like she escaped into it.
Jack Kirby introduced Harriet in Mister Miracle #6 in 1972 as one of Big Barda’s former sisters-in-arms, the Female Furies of Apokolips. Alongside Lashina, Stompa, and Bernadeth, she comes to Earth to drag Barda back home. That plan goes about as peacefully as you would expect from women trained by Granny Goodness.

Harriet is the Fury who seems to enjoy the chaos a little too much. She laughs, leaps, claws, and attacks with the kind of reckless energy that makes “battle strategy” feel optional. Her razor-sharp power spikes turn her hands into weapons, but Kirby gives her something even more memorable than hardware: personality.
She is small compared with Stompa, less controlled than Lashina, and completely unpredictable. That contrast is part of what makes the original Furies work so well. Kirby doesn’t draw four interchangeable henchwomen. Each one has her own silhouette, weapon, temperament, and rhythm.

Harriet is the berserker of the bunch, a walking bad decision with claws.

On Apokolips, that practically counts as a résumé.

#JackKirby #MadHarriet #FourthWorld #MisterMiracle #DCComics #ComicArt #clipstudiopaint #xppen #xppentablet #artdigital by @abbastudios

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Lashina: The Whip-Cracking Fury of Apokolips

Lashina is the prompt for Day 19 of The Fourth Annual Kirby Art Tribute Month.

To join in, tag your art with #KirbyArtTributes and #AugustJackKirbyMonth. Prompts are flexible because Kirby’s universe is much too wild to stay inside the lines.

Jack Kirby introduced Lashina in Mister Miracle #6 in 1972, dropping her right into one of the nastiest corners of the Fourth World: Granny Goodness’s Female Furies.
And Lashina looks like she belongs there.

She is lean, fast, vicious, and armed with steel whips that make getting close to her a very bad career choice. While Stompa brings brute force and Mad Harriet brings pure lunacy, Lashina feels more controlled. She fights like somebody who knows exactly how much trouble she can cause and enjoys proving it.

During Kirby’s original Mister Miracle run, Lashina joins the Furies hunting Big Barda after Barda turns against Apokolips. That makes the conflict personal. Barda once led these women. Now Lashina, Stompa, Mad Harriet, and Bernadeth become part of the nightmare chasing her and Scott Free.

What I like about Kirby’s Female Furies is that none of them feel interchangeable. Lashina has her own silhouette, weapon, rhythm, and attitude. Kirby could introduce a group of villains and somehow make each one look like she walked in from a completely different story.

Lashina may not have had the page time Barda received, but visually she is my favorite Fury. One look at those whips and you know somebody is about to have a rough afternoon.

#JackKirby #Lashina #FourthWorld #MisterMiracle #DCComics #ComicArt #clipstudiopaint #xppen #xppentablet #artdigital by @abbastudios

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