Today would be Jack Kirby’s 95th birthday. Jack Kirby created most of Marvel Comics’ most popular characters — The Fantastic Four, Doctor Doom, Galactus, The Silver Surfer, The X-Men, Magneto, Captain America, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, the Mighty Thor, the Avengers, Black Panther, The Inhumans, The Eternals, Machine Man and Devil Dinosaur. Over at DC he gave us The New Gods, Darkside, Kamandi, Omac, Sandman, Mister Miracle, The Boy Commandos, The Guardian and the Newsboy Legion, the Forever People, Manhunter and the Demon, to name a few.

In honor of Jack Kirby, the Hero Initiative has declared today to be “Wake Up And Draw Day.” I woke up and drew the above sketch of several Kirby characters. The original art will be donated to an auction to benefit the Hero Initiative along with dozens of other pieces of “Wake Up And Draw” art drawn by other comic professionals. I’ll be sure to post again when the auction is ready to take place.

And if that isn’t enough of a tribute on this Tribute Tuesday, let’s take another look at all the Kirby covers I’ve given the Tribute Tuesday treatment to. There are a lot of them, because as the greatest comic creator of all time, Jack Kirby was responsible for most of my favorite comic book covers of all time…