Do Anything Volume 1

By Warren Ellis

The robot head of Jack Kirby lives on Warren Ellis' desk It knowseverything and is connected to everything. You must obey the robot head of JackKirby. There are many ways to look at comics. In this book, we see the mediumthrough the hazy android eyes of Jack Kirby (actually the stolen and repurposedhead of the missing Philip K. Dick robot, which Mr. Ellis confesses to swipingoff the back of a plane), taking a rattling ghost-train ride through the historyof comics. David Bowie, the CIA, mad architects, Will Eisner, Frank Zappa, Tintin, the designer of Skylab, a train station in Paris, Arthur C. Clarke, thecircus, the Black Panther Party, and William S. Burroughs: all of these thingsare connected by Jack Kirby, all part of the secret history of comics, and allillustrating the special nature of the medium as the place where you can doanything.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592911056
• ISBN13: 9781592911059
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Avatar Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher