Kudos to Professor Tom Lammers for catching the un-credited iconic Jack Kirby image on the New Yorker cartoon featured on their Web site (“Drawing Criticism,” May 22).

I, too, immediately recognized the image and wondered why the late Kirby’s name was left off as the inspiration. Kirby was the DaVinci of comic-book art. He co-created and gave visual life to the majority of the multimillion-dollar properties being depicted on the silver screen today.

With his star finally in ascendance, a best-selling art-book biography in bookstores and his place firmly assured in pop-culture history, it is nice to see proper credit given to him in the media and a likewise credit to co-artist Dick Ayers, a long-time resident of White Plains.

Michael J. Vassallo,

Manhattan