Kyle Baker Illustrates Criterion’s Jackie Chan’s Emergence Of A Superstar

The Rise Of A Hong Kong Superstar

Comics illustrator Kyle Baker, with a career that has encompassed all of the major companies including DC and Marvel, has just created a new cover and illos for Criterion’s Jackie Chan: Emergence Of A Superstar DVD boxed set…

Originally tapped as a potential successor to Bruce Lee, Hong Kong martial-arts phenom Jackie Chan soon established his own unique screen persona, blending goofball slapstick and bone-crunching kung fu into intricate feats of supercharged athleticism. Tracing his rise from breakout star to full-fledged auteur, these six unabashedly silly, unstoppably entertaining early-career highlights find Chan refining the lovably mischievous image that would make him a global icon, while also assuming greater creative control over his projects—first as his own martial-arts choreographer, and later as a writer-director who set a thrilling new standard for daredevil action comedy.