Adam Kubert

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Adam Kubert at the Big Apple Convention, 2009

Adam Kubert (born October 6, 1959 in Boonton , New Jersey ) is an American comic artist .

Life and work

Kubert is the eldest son of Joe Kubert , the founder of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art and one of the "old masters" of modern American science fiction comics.

Like his younger brother Andy Kubert , Adam Kubert followed his father's professional example and began to work as a full-time comic artist in the 1980s. He had previously graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in medical imaging, attended his father's drawing school in Dover, New Jersey, and was an eleven-year-old “letterer,” that is, a draftsman who copied the texts of a comic book after completing the drawings, enter letter by letter in the speech bubbles.

Kubert, whose artistic influences include his father Frank Miller , Will Eisner , Jim Steranko and Alex Toth, initially took over, following the "family tradition", engagements at the Marvel Comics publisher , which had already been his father's main artistic home. He worked for Marvel in the 1980s and 1990s on series such as Wolverine (with author Larry Hama ), The Incredible Hulk (with author Peter David ), as well as various series about the mutant superheroes "The X-Men" such as Uncanny X-Men or Ultimate X-Men (with Mark Millar, among others ). Other frequent partners of Kubert in the past were the ink draftsmen Mark Farmer, Danny Miki and John Dell , as well as the colorist Richard Isanove. As Tuscher Kubert operated as an exception, when he illustrated in the early 1990s by his brother, when DC Comics published miniseries Batman vs. Predator ininked.

After he had designed some issues of the Ultimate Fantastic Four series with Mark Millar , Kubert switched to Marvel's rival DC Comics in 2005, with whom he, like his brother, signed an exclusive contract with a term of several years.

In 2006/2007 Kubert illustrated the multi-part science fiction saga Superman: Krypton's Last Son ( Last Son ), co-authored by the film director Richard Donner and the full-time comic book writer Geoff Johns and published in the series Action Comics , which is an epochal adventure of the superhero Superman has to the content. Last Son met with considerable media coverage - among others, the magazine Entertainment Weekly reported on the project - and became a considerable commercial success, which was reflected in several reprints of the comic books in which it appeared. Kubert's other works for DC include the cover drawings for the Hawkman series and drawings for Clash .

In addition, Kubert is active as a lecturer at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, the main characteristic of whose drawings is the rough dynamics of his figures, backgrounds and representations of movement.

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personal data
SURNAME Kubert, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Boonton , New Jersey