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How a Lower East Side Jew conquered the multiverse

JL;DR SUMMARY Jack Kirby, a prodigious comic artist from the Lower East Side, is celebrated in the retrospective exhibition, "Jack Kirby: Heroes and Humanity" at the Skirball Cultural Center. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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New York CityLower East SideMysticismArt ExhibitionJewish ArtComicsSkirball Cultural CenterPop CultureJack KirbyCaptain America

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Los Angeles, California, United States
"Jack Kirby: Heroes and Humanity, debuting May 1 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, is the first career retrospective of the artist who created or co-created some of American pop cultures most iconic characters."
New York, United States
"Being able to tell the story of Jack Kirby, as the son of immigrants, as a Jew who grew up on the Lower East Side and had that real New York experience, to trace the arc of his biography alongside the story of the work that he did was really important to us, Urton said."

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