Joe Rubinstein
Josef "Joe" Rubinstein (born June 4, 1958 in Germany) is an American comic artist .
Life and work
Rubinstein was born in Germany in 1958 to Jewish parents. As a child, he emigrated with his parents to Israel , and later, in 1963, to the United States, where they settled in New York City . At the age of eleven he began to attend courses in the New York Art Student League in 1969, where Arthur J. Foster, the son of Hal Foster, was one of his teachers. In 1971, at the age of only thirteen, Rubinstein succeeded in gaining a foothold in the professional comic industry when he met the illustrator Neal Adams at a trade fair . Adams, Rubinstein's great artistic idol at the time, finally agreed to give the teenager an assistant job in his and Dick Giordano's studio Continuity Associates, where Rubinstein worked for the next year and a half.
Following this assistantship, Rubinstein began working as a freelance contract draftsman in 1975. To this day, he mainly specializes in reworking the pencil sketches of other artists as an ink draftsman and preparing them for mass reprinting. Since then he has drawn for all major and numerous smaller US comic publishers, such as DC Comics , Marvel Comics and Dark Horse.
As an Inker for Marvel Comics, Rubinstein was instrumental in the mammoth project Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe , which will run for several decades . For DC, he inked numerous magazines of well-known series such as Action Comics , Detective Comics , Shadow of the Bat , Justice League International , Justice League Europe , Batman , Aquaman , The Specter , Swamp Thing , Anarky , Starman , as well as the miniseries Ion , Invasion ! and Genesis . Together with Doug Mahnke, he was in charge of the relaunch of Superman The Man of Steel - the German editions of Panini Verlag .
His extensive work as a comic artist brought Rubinstein an entry in the Guinness Book of Records , which grants him the rank of the ink draftsman who has worked with most of the draftsmen or who can show the highest number of draftsmen whose work he has inked. The illustrators whose pencil work Rubinstein has revised include Don Newton , Dan Jurgens , Staz Johnson , Norm Breyfogle , Ron Frenz and John Byrne . Authors he has worked with include Alan Grant , Chuck Dixon , John Ostrander , Tom Peyer , Dan Jurgens, Jeph Loeb and Joe Kelly .
Individual evidence
- Superman flies again - An interview with Joe Rubinstein Jörg Martin Munsonius & Alfred Bekker in Fantasia Vol. 140/41 pp. 185–190
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rubinstein, Joe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rubinstein, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4th 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Germany |