Learn something new every day!
Jack Kirby once did a comic book version of the famous (famous among geeks) science-fiction surrealist spy thriller THE PRISONER.
More info here: http://www.twomorrows.com/kirby/articles/11prisoner.html
and here: http://datajunkie.blogspot.com/2006/03/you-are-number-6.html
I had heard about Kirby’s short-lived 2001 SPACE ODYSSEY from a review by Fabio Paolo Barbieri (his review is here) and I regret that I have not yet got my hands on a copy — if it can be found anywhere — of this work. But the Prisoner exist only as a fragment in a few out of print Kirby Collections.
Here is a panel from The Prisoner, and, below that, from Kirby’s 2001 SPACE ODYSSEY
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
