|
Kamandi 16 page 16
Artists: Jack Kirby (Penciller) , Mike Royer (Inker)
17 Comments - 2,058 Views - 4 Likes
Additional Images:
Pages 2 and 3 (now also in my collection!)
Artwork Details
|
DescriptionKamandi 16 is one of the most formally sophisticated comics of the 70's. Kirby uses a parallel narrative structure to answer one of the great questions of the Kamandi universe: How did the animals become intelligent? Rather than just have a character recount this narrative, Kirby has it happen AGAIN, in Kamandi's present, and sets up a rich potential future for humanity to rise again. Pages 2 and 3 comprise one of Jack's great single panels (see additional image). In an audacious linear composition that evokes a long tracking shot, Kamandi—armed, free, and articulate—stalks past cages of feral humans. These howling, gibbering homo-sapiens have been captured by Gorilla scientists for use as test subjects in a Bio-chemical research facility. This is the quintessential Kamandi situation. He's not LITERALLY the last boy on earth, but he's the last one we would recognize as one of us. As the book unfolds, we meet the Gorilla scientist Hanuman, who has recreated the mind-expanding chemical Cortexin, working from the notes of the human scientist who first discovered it. The journal entries of the long dead scientist are used as captions over the remaining action. His chance to study the chemical under controlled conditions is lost due to the advancing bombardment of the Tiger military (in the present)/ Great Disaster (in the past), and the catalytic drug spills into the water supply to trigger the development of consciousness in the wild humans, just as it had accidentally released the potential of the apes and other species so many years before. At the climax of the Tiger assault, cannon fire wrecks the animal cages and the gorgeous control of pages 2-3 pays off in a single page splash of utter chaos.Social/Sharing |
About the Owner
|
 |
Contact the OwnerUse can use a contact form to send an email to this gallery owner,
|
Comments on this Artwork
You must be logged in to make comments.
steve roden
Member Since 2011
Posted on 11/20/2017
holy magnificent.... wonder of kamandi asplash of beautiful insane kirby-ness... this one is sick!!!!!!!!!
Gordon Bartik
Member Since 2013
Posted on 11/20/2017
This is a wonderfully dense splash that the King, as he always did, has it working perfectly as a visual narrative that doesn't confuse. A great page Aaron, with your wonderful and very detailed synopsis.
Mark Howland 
Member Since 2004
Posted on 11/21/2017
So many feet and hands, singles and pairs! Such Kirby-esque chaotic greatness!
artless artmore
Member Since 2013
Posted on 11/21/2017
Such control he had to put our eyes where he wants them amidst so much motion and mayhem. The secondary characters in this are super
Roger K.
Member Since 2005
Forum Moderator
Posted on 11/27/2017
Nobody could make wreckage like the King! What a page! This is the Kamandi page we all want in our collections.
Jerry C.
Member Since 2009
Posted on 11/29/2017
As a true genius, Kirby always improved his art and reinvented himself. Big congrats Aaron!
G A
Member Since 2020
Posted on 8/16/2022
A page only the master could have conceived of and drawn, absolutely stunning!
Latest Updates
All |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Auctions ADVERTISEMENT
Auctions
| Joe Musial The Katzenjammer Kids Sunday Comic Stri |
Auctions
 |
RON FRENZ AND BRETT BREEDING AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #252 PAGE 8 (1984, HISTORIC 1ST APPEARANCE OF BLACK SUIT! 6TH PANEL IS 1ST TIME SUIT REACTS TO SPIDEY'S THOUGHTS, GIVING 1ST CLUE IT'S A SYMBIOTE!) |
Auctions
 |
Neal Adams - The Avengers #96, Page 11 |
Hakes Auctions
 |
STAR WARS WEEKLY #8 COMIC BOOK COVER ORIGINAL ART BY GIL KANE. |
Subscribe to the YouTube Channel.. FREE!
Geoff M Art Sales
2 Accepting Commissions
Commission an Artist
For Sale Updates
Classified Updates |
|
DISNEY COMIC ART A9/6/2025 10:23:00 AM |
|
david hitchcock9/6/2025 10:06:00 AM |
|
P A9/6/2025 8:33:00 AM |
|
Rene Dorenbos9/6/2025 5:20:00 AM |
|
Monty B9/5/2025 3:53:00 PM |
|
Saxa Luna Galianan9/5/2025 1:01:00 PM |
|
Dealer Updates |
|
Coollines Artwork9/5/2025 9:24:00 PM |
|
Koch Comic Art9/5/2025 7:54:00 PM |
|
Anthony's Comicbook Art9/5/2025 6:43:00 PM |
|
Will's Comic Art Page9/5/2025 12:25:00 PM |
|
Essential Sequential9/5/2025 12:15:00 PM |
|
Achetez de l'Art9/5/2025 12:15:00 PM |
|
|
Become a Premium CAF Gallery Owner & you'll be supporting CAF and also gain access to many services and features not available to standard members.
|