Editing Jack Kirby (section)

===Film and animation (1979–1980)===
Still dissatisfied with Marvel's treatment of him,<ref>"Ploog & Kirby Quit Marvel over Contract Dispute", ''The Comics Journal'' #44, January 1979, p. 11.</ref> and with an offer of employment from [[Hanna-Barbera]], a job located in nearby Hollywood,<ref>Evanier, ''King of Comics'', p. 189: "In 1978, an idea found him. It was an offer from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio in Hollywood."</ref> Kirby left Marvel to work in animation. In that field for [[Ruby-Spears Productions]] he did designs for ''[[Turbo Teen]]'', ''[[Thundarr the Barbarian]]'' and other animated series for television.<ref name="DAK2"/> In addition to a superior pay to his comics work, Kirby enjoyed excellent relations with the staff, especially with the younger artists who typically credited him as their inspiration.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Evanier |title=Kirby |pages=189–191}}</ref> He worked on ''[[The New Fantastic Four]]'' animated series, reuniting him with scriptwriter Stan Lee and they kept their relations sufficiently cordial on a professional level.<ref>{{cite journal|last= Fischer|first= Stuart|title= The Fantastic Four and Other Things: A Television History|journal= Back Issue!|issue= 74|page= 30|publisher= TwoMorrows Publishing|date= August 2014|location= Raleigh, North Carolina|quote= Stan Lee was a consultant to this series, and Jack Kirby played a very important part in this show as an animator and helped design the show.}}</ref> He illustrated an adaptation of the [[The Walt Disney Company|Walt Disney]] movie ''[[The Black Hole (1979 film)|The Black Hole]]'' for ''[[Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales]]'' syndicated comic strip in 1979–80.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kirby.htm |title=Jack Kirby |date=March 6, 2009 |publisher=[[Lambiek|Lambiek Comiclopedia]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327061419/http://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kirby.htm |archive-date=March 27, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1979, Kirby drew concept art for film producer Barry Geller's script treatment adapting [[Roger Zelazny]]'s science fiction novel, ''[[Lord of Light]]'', for which Geller had purchased the rights. In collaboration, Geller commissioned Kirby to draw set designs that would be used as architectural renderings for a Colorado [[theme park]] to be called Science Fiction Land; Geller announced his plans at a November press conference attended by Kirby, former American football star [[Rosey Grier]], writer [[Ray Bradbury]], and others. While the film did not come to fruition, Kirby's drawings were used for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s "[[Canadian Caper]]", in which some members of the [[Embassy of the United States, Tehran|U.S. embassy in Tehran]], Iran, who had avoided capture in the [[Iran hostage crisis]], were able to escape the country posing as members of a movie location-scouting crew.<ref>{{cite journal |author-link=Joshuah Bearman |last=Bearman |first=Joshuah |url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/feat_cia.html |title=How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran |volume=15 |newspaper=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |issue=5 |date=April 24, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823200833/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/feat_cia.html |archive-date=August 23, 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref>