Jack Kirby — comics (marvel creator) with roots in the Russian Empire
Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg) was an American comic book artist and writer who co-created some of the most iconic characters in pop culture — Captain America (with Joe Simon), the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the New Gods, and dozens more. He is universally regarded as the King of Comics.
Tracing the roots — Austria / Russia
Born on the Lower East Side in 1917 to Benjamin Kurtzberg, who had emigrated from Austria (near the Russian Empire border), and Rose Bernstein, from the same region, Kirby grew up in poverty in the Jewish immigrant tenements of Manhattan. His creations — outsiders with extraordinary powers who struggle for acceptance — are the immigrant experience rendered as mythology.
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Austria / Russia. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"Comics are the mythology of the 20th century."