Template:Short description Template:Italic Street Code is both the short, ten page autobiographical comic story and the 2009 mini-comic by American writer-artist Jack Kirby. Both Bill Sienkiewicz and Jeff Zapata consider it among Kirby's greatest works,[1] and it supplanted all other works in the minds of Jack and wife Roz. Roz appreciated it so much she framed the two-page spread from the story and gave it pride of place on her wall.[2] It was commissioned by Richard Kyle in 1983 but did not see print until 1990 in Argosy vol.3 #2, with lettering by Bill Spicer. The story was shot from Kirby's pencils. Kyle intended to print it with a colored tone behind it, which Kirby requested not be too colorful, but rather drab to suit the times. Kyle said Template:Quote
The strip has been printed on four occasions:
- Argosy vol. 3 #2 (Richard Kyle Publications) (1990) with lettering by Bill Spicer
- Streetwise (TwoMorrows Publishing) (2000) with lettering by Ken Bruzenak
- Kirby: King of Comics (Abrams Books) (2008) with lettering by Bill Spicer
- Street Code (Kirby Museum) (2009) with lettering by Jack Kirby[3]