{"id":3479,"date":"2011-08-01T22:47:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T05:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2011-08-01T22:48:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T05:48:09","slug":"make-mine-kirby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=3479","title":{"rendered":"Make Mine Kirby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appallingly, Marvel Comics recently prevailed in court over Jack Kirby&#8217;s heirs in their challenge over ownership of and proper compensation for the creations that Mr. Kirby made for them (i.e. &#8220;The Whole Damn Marvel Universe&#8221;). If you are as disgusted by this as I am (or if you just want some food for thought), <a href=\"http:\/\/srbissette.com\/?p=12761\">please consider reading what Steve Bissette writes about the issue.<\/a> Marvel may have triumphed legally, but that does not mean we have to let them win. Why buy any new Kirby or Kirby-derivative comics from Marvel? Do you really need to read more fifth-generation rip-offs of the master? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appallingly, Marvel Comics recently prevailed in court over Jack Kirby&#8217;s heirs in their challenge over ownership of and proper compensation for the creations that Mr. Kirby made for them (i.e. &#8220;The Whole Damn Marvel Universe&#8221;). If you are as disgusted by this as I am (or if you just want some food for thought), please &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=3479\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Make Mine Kirby<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-causes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd8gD-U7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3482,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}