 In this image of the Fantastic Four, a bolt of mysterious energy that surrounds Sue Storm is formed by a group of Kirby dots. Kirby dots are an artistic convention in superhero and science fiction comic books and similar illustrations: a field of black, roughly circular dots that are used to represent energy of a powerful but unspecified kind. They are typically found in illustrations of explosions or the blasts from ray guns of various sorts.
Kirby dots are named after Jack Kirby, the highly influential comic book artist whose superhero art frequently featured them. They were developed from the use of a pattern of round black spots to depict smoke or flying debris from explosions, or as a way to manually generate the random patterns that depict the path of lightning strikes.
External link
- Kirby dots (http://www.penciljack.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-16461.html) on the Penciljack forum.
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