The answer is no but only because some of them have the plague

Impossible to overstate the influence these books had on me

Kirby is  this example of someone whose cultural impact hasn’t been (and never will be) examined/appreciated in the way that a somewhat middling American author (Phillip Roth for example) is examined/appreciated. And even if Kirby DOES get that recognition, it will still never get close to deciphering what he was all about, because the language to talk about what he's doing does not exist. Matisse is more important on his own than all the words written about him. But, those words, over the last century, help us to approach his work in its totality...even if we've never read them, they've merged into the air enough that we can accept Matisse's radicalism as part of our lives. Kirby will never have this, and that is a loss. In fact, Kirby's work, in the way most get to access it, is a putrid ugly version of his vision, an almost satanic crime. ‘Comics working class' this, 'comics can be made by anyone' that, but those words miss the complexity of a generation of young &  poor men whose destiny was to be blue collar and, in a way, remained blue collar, essentially working in sweat shops....but made visionary art. Every effort has been made to degrade what they did, to make it ugly, and those efforts have been successful. The delivery system, a system for people from poor backgrounds to create imaginative works and communicate to a mass audience, has also been erased.