Joe Kubert

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Joe Kubert (2009)

Joe Kubert (born September 18, 1926 in Jerzierzany ; † August 12, 2012 ) was an American comic artist and founder of the school for graphic and art design named after him Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover (New Jersey) .

Life

Kubert emigrated to the United States with his Polish parents in the 1920s, where the family settled in East New York ( Brooklyn ). In 1938, at the age of eleven and a half, Kubert signed a contract with the publisher Louis Silberkleit and in the following years began working as a full-time comic artist. In doing so, he was primarily concerned with revising the work of "fatherly friends" such as Irv Novick , Bob Montana and Mort Meskin in terms of ink . For Montana, Kubert washed comics from the popular Archie series, among other things.

After attending the Manhattan School of Art and Music , Kubert presented his first drawings as a pencil draftsman in 1942. His first published work appeared in the comic Catman Comics # 8 published by the publisher Holyoke in March 1942. In the further course of the 1940s, work on series such as Blue Beetle and The Spirit followed .

In the 1950s and 1960s he worked on series such as Tor, Son of Sindbad, an oriental sailor saga, and the Viking adventure Viking Prince . There were also war stories like Tales of the Green Beret or Sergeant Rock.

Work for science fiction series such as Hawkman followed .

After 1995 Kubert presented the autobiographical comic novels Yossel: April 19, 1943 (2003) and Fax from Sarajevo (1996). While the latter deals with the Bosnian War and the siege of Sarajevo by Serbian troops in the early 1990s, the first-named volume reflects the idea of ​​the Jewish-born Kubert of what his life might have been like during World War II if his parents had not moved to the United States States emigrated but stayed in Poland. Most recently, Kubert drew didactic comics for the US Army, in which readers are made aware of the importance of maintaining and checking their equipment.

Kubert, who was considered one of the last "masters" of the "golden era" of American comics in the 1930s and 1940s, was inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1997 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1998.

His sons Adam Kubert and Andy Kubert emerged from his marriage , who, like him, have made careers as full-time comic artists.

Joe Kubert died on August 12, 2012 at the age of 85 after an extended hospital stay.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FAZ of August 14, 2012 p. 28
  2. ↑ a b Obituary in the Tagesspiegel
  3. ↑ JBooks.com - First Chapters: Yossel: April 19, 1943. jbooks.com, accessed March 29, 2015 .
  4. ↑ obituary in the comic portal zapano-online.com
personal data
SURNAME Kubert, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Poland
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2012