Dan Nadel’s talk will discuss and share verbal and visual sketches for an in-progress biography of Jack Kirby, the New York-born visionary cartoonist behind many of the twentieth century’s most powerful superheroes, from Captain America to the X-Men to the Black Panther. 

Dan Nadel is Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His most recent book is the PEN Award nominated Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life.