The Jack Katz Podcast Conversation Part 2: The Replication of our Downfall and Our Steps into Wonder

To hear Part 1 Click Here: https://anchor.fm/seth-the-storyteller/episodes/Jack-Katz-On-Creativity--Synchronicity--Fear--and-Romantic-Beauty-and-Human-Tragedy-e2hs83 When we left off with Jack, a time traveler had arrived from the future, only to find he was not far enough in the past. The computers had taken over.  Things sounded grim.  Replication  A recurring theme in The First Kingdom is the rise and fall of civilizations and the events that eventually bring about their destruction. A desire for immortality is among the motivations that are often driving the creators and innovators.  One solution created is a memory serum that retains the entire scope of a culture's knowledge. The serum can be used to share this knowledge with the replicants called Humanoids. The Humanoids were made by a man who had a near-death experience as a child and wanted to stave off death for everyone. At one point, he takes the memory serum to prevent his own inevitable death.  The Fiction We Know is Replicated   Tarzan is not an original story. According to Jack, there are no original stories. Jack in the Jungle and Jack the Lion Tamer were both written by PT Barnum and are the basis for the Tarzan stories written by Edgar Rice Burroughs.  Gladiator written by Philip Wylie which Jack believes was the inspiration for Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel's seminal Superman. Jack even shares a personal story about these two co-creators in the first part of our first podcast.  People are Steeped in Ambivalence   Jack is exacerbated by people steeped in the same ambivalence. He believes people are terrified and need to hold on to something. Jack has found the god of Einstein and it has allowed him to focus on completing the Beyond the Beyond.  When Jack met Charles Clarence C.C. Beck, who was the first artist assigned to draw the character of Captain Marvel, originally dubbed Captain Thunder by writer Bill Parker, "He knew I was supposed to do Captain Marvel Jr."  "He already knew about me from Bulletman and Bulletdog." Jack remembers Beck enjoyed designing swords and hilts, and that he was a "Wonderful little gentleman."  Maybe it has to do with his belief that Captain Marvel was better than Superman. When Jack wrote his own story of a character with immense power he named it The Last Immortal. He then introduced a girl who was dying of cancer and asked, "What can superpowers do against cancer?" Read more at sethsingletonstoryteller.com  Jack's Biography  As an artist, Jack has spent his whole life dedicated to drawing, writing and getting his thoughts out to the universe. His working life as an artist has spanned a number of waves of comic book development and his paintings reach down into the present from their original roots back in the early years of 20th century American illustration and art. His most enduring accomplishment has been the production of the original 24-issue graphic novel known as "The First Kingdom".  Many have said it was the very first independently published graphic novel and it began to be re-issued as a four-volume set in the spring of 2005. Aside from his drawing and painting, Jack has written extensively through the years on his ideas exploring the place humans have taken in the universe and the directions in which they may or may not take in the future.  Today he teaches anatomy for figurative art students and continues to work on his comic book projects. Currently in the works as well are a number of publications and videos presenting his distinctive ideas of teaching figure drawing. His recent publications included the first volume of a collection of sketches Jack has done over the past decades that illustrate for the advanced figurative art student the many different ways in which the dynamic human form can be