Joe Kubert (born September 18, 1926, Poland) is an American comic book artist who went on to found the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics features Sgt. Rock and Hawkman. His sons, Andy Kubert and Adam Kubert, have themselves become successful comic-book artists. September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Look up artist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, or Joe Kubert School, located in Dover, New Jersey, is a three-year technical school that teaches the principles of sequential art and the particular craft of the comics industry as well as commercial illustration, and also offers a major in... DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ... One of Joe Kuberts evocative covers for Sgt. ... Cover to Hawkman v4 # 1. ... Andy Kubert is an American comic book artist; the son of comics artist Joe Kubert (and his brother Adam Kubert is also a comics artist). ... Cover to Uncanny X-Men #377; Art by Adam Kubert. ...

Kubert's other creations include the comic books Tor, Son of Sinbad, and Viking Prince, and (with writer Robin Moore), the comic strip Tales of the Green Beret. Tor was a comic book drawn by Joe Kubert and written by Norman Maurer about a caveman named Tor who battles dinosaurs and other monsters. ... Robin Moore (b. ... Tales of the Green Beret is a comic strip created by Robin Moore and Joe Kubert. ...

Biography

Early life and career

After moving with his family to Brooklyn, New York City, United States, as an infant, Kubert started drawing at an early age and was encouraged by his parents. In 1938, at age 11 1/2, he took the advice of a school friend related to comics publisher Louis Silberkleit, and visited the Manhattan office of Silberkleit's company MLJ Publications, the future Archie Comics. He was taken under the wing of kindly professionals Charles Biro, Mort Meskin, Bob Montana and Irv Novick, who after a few months let the promising 12-year-old artist ink some pages of the teen-humor comic book Archie, penciled by Montana. This article is about the borough of New York City. ... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Forsythe Jughead Jones characters created by Bob Montana. ... Charles Biro is an American comic book writer, chiefly known for creating the wartime comic Airboy. ... Morton Meskin (May 1916 - May 1995) was a prolific comic book artist who worked on many recognizable characters through the Golden Age of Comics, well into the Silver Age of Comics. ... Bob Montana (October 23, 1920 - January 4, 1975) was an American comic strip artist who created the characters that launched Archie Comics. ... Pep Comics #1 (January 1940), the first appearance of The Shield Irv Novick (1916-October 15, 2004) was an American comic book artist who worked almost continuously from 1939 until the late 1990s. ... The inker is one of the two line artists in a traditional comic book, or graphic novel. ... In producing a comic book, the penciller (or penciler) draws the comic based on the script created by the writer. ...

Kubert attended Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, and after school and on weekends honed his craft at the quirkily named Harry "A" Chesler's studio, one of the comic-book "packagers" that had sprung up in the medium's early days to supply outsourced comics to publishers. Kubert's first professional job was penciling and inking the six-page story "Black-Out", starring the character Volton, in Holyoke Publishing's Catman Comics #8 (March 1942; also listed as vol. 2, #13). He would continuing drawing the feature for the next three isues, and was soon doing similar work for Fox Comics' Blue Beetle. Branching into additional art skills, he began coloring the Quality Comics reprints of future industry legend Will Eisner's The Spirit, a seven-page comics feature that as part of a newspaper Sunday-supplement. The Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts is located near the Juilliard School in the Lincoln Center district of Manhattan, on Amsterdam Avenue between 65th Street and 64th Street. ... Harry A. Chesler, Jr. ... Mass media is a term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state). ... The Golden Age Cat-Man Cat-Man and Kitten (also Catman and Kitten and The Cat-Man and the Kitten) were a pair of superhero characters created by Charles M. Quinlan and Irwin Hasen and first published in 1940 by now-defunct Holyoke Publications. ... Fox Feature Syndicate (a. ... The Blue Beetle is the name of three fictional comic book superheroes. ... A colorist is an artist who colors comic art reading it for production as a comic book. ... Crack Comics #1 (May, 1940), featuring the Clock, previously introduced as the first masked comic book superhero. ... William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an acclaimed American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. ... The Spirit (real name Denny Colt) is a fictional American masked crime-fighter, created by Will Eisner in 1940, who starred in a Sunday-newspaper comic-book insert. ...

1940s and '50s

Kubert's first work for DC Comics, where he would spend much of his career and produce some of his most notable art, was penciling and inking the 50-page "Seven Soldiers of Victory" superhero-team story in Leading Comics #8 (Fall 1943), published by a DC predecessor company, All-American Comics. Through the decade, Kubert's art would also appear in comics from Fiction House, Harvey Comics, but he was otherwise worked exclusively for All-American and DC. DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ... This article may contain original research or unverified claims. ... All-American Comics was the flagship title for its publisher, also called All-American Comics. ... Jumbo Comics #1 (Sept. ... Casper the Friendly Ghost in Theres Good Boos To-Night (1948). ...

In the 1950s, he became managing editor of St. John Publications, where he and the brothers Norman Maurer and Leonard Maurer produced the first 3-D comic books, starting with Three Dimension Comics #1 (Sept. 1953 oversize format, Oct. 1953 standard-size reprint), featuring Mighty Mouse. According to Kubert, it sold a remarkable 1.2 million copies at 25 cents apiece at a time when comics cost a dime. [1] St. ... Norman Albert Maurer (May 13, 1926 - November 23, 1986, Los Angeles, California) was a comic book artist, and a writer, director and producer of films and TV shows. ... Stereo card image modified for crossed eye viewing. ...

DC Comics and Sgt. Rock

Kubert served as DC Comics' director of publications from 1967-76, when he left to found the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover, New Jersey. During his time with DC, Kubert initiated titles based on such Edgar Rice Burroughs properties as Tarzan and Korak. His own work on Tarzan, considered by comics historians to be a classic portrayal, is been collected by Dark Horse Comics in a hardcover book series, Much more about DC career TK The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, or Joe Kubert School, located in Dover, New Jersey, is a three-year technical school that teaches the principles of sequential art and the particular craft of the comics industry as well as commercial illustration, and also offers a major in... Dover is a Town in Morris County, New Jersey, 39 miles (63 km) west by north of New York City on the Rockaway River. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ... Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he also produced works in many genres. ... James H. Pierce and Joan Burroughs Pierce starred in the 1932-34 Tarzan radio series 1964 Edition of Tarzan of the Apes Tarzan, a real character, half uzbek, quarter ogre and quarter paki created by a political dissident, first appeared in the 1985 documentary Sexy Jeddah Time, and then in... Korak is the ape name of Jack Clayton, son of Tarzan. ... Dark Horse Comics logo Dark Horse Comics is one of the largest independent comic book publishers in the United States, behind dominant publishers Marvel Comics and DC Comics. ...

In 2006, Kubert wrote and drew "Sgt. Rock: The Prophecy", a six-issue miniseries. A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ...

Yaakov and Yosef

Kubert wrote and drew a collection of faith-based comic strips beginning in the late 1980s for Tzivos Hashem, the Lubavitch children's organization, and Moshiach Times magazine. The stories, "The Adventures of Yaakov and Yosef", were based on biblical references, but were not Bible stories. Many were based on stories of Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbes and disciples. ^[1] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Chabad Lubavitch, also known as Lubavitch Chabad, is a large branch of Hasidic Judaism. ... For other uses, see Bible (disambiguation). ... Bible Stories are selected passages from the Bible that are simple, enjoyable, and suitable for children. ... Chabad Lubavitch, or Lubavich, is one of the largest branch of Hasidic Judaism founded by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi . ...

Later career

As of the mid-2000s, Kubert is the artist for PS Magazine, a U.S. military magazine, with comic-book elements, that stresses the importance of preventive maintenance of vehicles, arms, and other ordnance. (The name derives from its being a "postcript" to other, related publications.) The armed forces of the United States of America consist of the United States Army United States Navy United States Air Force United States Marine Corps United States Coast Guard Note: The United States Coast Guard has both military and law enforcement functions. ...

PS Monthly (Feb. 2006). Cover art by Joe Kubert.

Kubert has drawn graphic novels, including Yossel: April 19, 1943 (2003). Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (500x717, 103 KB) Cover, PS Magazine, Feb. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (500x717, 103 KB) Cover, PS Magazine, Feb. ... Sabre (1978), one of the first graphic novels. ...

Awards

Kubert's several awards and nominations include: the 1962 Alley Award for Best Single Comic Book Cover (The Brave and the Bold #42); a 1963 write-in Alley Award for "Artist Preferred on Sea Devils; a special 1969 Alley Award "for the cinematic storytelling techniques and the exciting and dramatic style he has brought to the field of comic art"; and 1974 and 1980 National Cartoonists Society Awards for best Story Comic Book, plus a 1997 nomination for Best Comic Book. Kubert was also a formally named finalist for induction into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990, 1991, and 1992, and was inducted in 1997. The Alley Awards are comic book awards originally sponsored by Alter-Ego magazine, edited by Jerry Bails, Roy Thomas, Ronn Foss, and, in 1978, Mike Friedrich. ... The Brave and the Bold was a DC Comics superhero comic book which was published from August 1955 to July 1983. ... The National Cartoonists Society is an organization of professional cartoonists created in 1946. ... The Kirby Awards were a short lived set of awards given for achievement in comic books. ...

Fax from Sarajevo is a graphic novel by Joe Kubert characterized by the veteran artist's heavily inked yet brisk and emotionally charged linework. The 207-page hardcover book (ISBN 1-56971-143-7) was published by Dark Horse Comics in November 1996. The company then released it as a 224-page trade paperback (ISBN 1-56971-346-4) in October 1998).

The non-fiction book originated as a series of faxes from European comics agent Ervin Rustemagić during the Serbian siege of Sarajevo. He and his family, whose home and possessions in suburban Dobrinja were destroyed, spent two-and-a-half years in a ruined building, communicating with the outside world via fax when they could. Friend and client Kubert, the highly regarded artist of DC Comics' Sgt. Rock and many other titles, was one recipient. Collaborating long-distance, they collected Rustemagic's account of life during wartime, with Kubert turning the raw faxes into a somber comics tale that won both of the comics industry's two major accolades, the Eisner Award and the Harvey Award.

Audio

• Comic Geek Speak Podcast Interview (December 2005)

Footnotes

References

• Lambiek Comiclopedia: Joe Kubert
• "The Genesis of Joe Kubert", by Steve Stiles
• The Grand Comics Database
• Comic Geek Speak Podcast Interview (November 2005)

External links

• Joe Kubert's World of Cartooning
• PS Magazine
• Joe Kubert's Jewish Comics for Chabad-Lubavitch