Joe Kubert (1926–2012)
Author of Fax from Sarajevo
About the Author
Joseph Kubert was born on September 18, 1926 in the shtetl of Yzeran, Poland. He came to the United States with his family as an infant and was raised in Brooklyn, New York. At 11 or 12, he landed an after-school job as an office boy for a comic-book publisher. By the time he was a teenager, he had show more worked sweeping up, erasing, inking and eventually drawing comic books. The first comic he illustrated himself, Volton, was published when he was 16. After graduating from the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, he served stateside in the Army before becoming a full-time artist. He was most closely associated with DC, for whom he drew Sgt. Rock, a World War II infantryman he created with the writer Robert Kanigher, and Hawkman, an airborne crime fighter. He also created Tor, a prehistoric hero, and, with Kanigher, Enemy Ace, whose antihero is a German pilot. He was also considered one of the definitive interpreters of Tarzan. In the early 1950s he helped develop the methods of drawing and reproduction that made possible the 3-D comic book. From 1967 to 1976, he was DC's director of publications. He wrote and illustrated several graphic novels including Fax from Sarajevo, Yossel, Jew Gangster, and Dong Xoai. He also illustrated the mid-1960s newspaper comic strip Tales of the Green Beret and a comic strip The Adventures of Yaakov and Yosef for the children's magazine The Moshiach Times. In 1976, he founded the Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey, the country's only accredited trade school for comic-book artists, where he helped train a generation of young colleagues. He died of multiple myeloma on August 12, 2012 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Luigi Novi
Series
Works by Joe Kubert
Superhelden tekenen 3 copies
Tarzan 239 — Author — 2 copies
Tarzan 243 — Author — 2 copies
Tor # 1 — Author — 2 copies
G. I. War Tales No. 3 1 copy
DC Special No. 5 1 copy
Big G. I. Combat 1 copy
G. I. War Tales No. 2 1 copy
The Man-eating Lizards — Author — 1 copy
Lunar Station 1 copy
Sgt. Rock #400 1 copy
Nightmare #10 1 copy
What Of Tomorrow? 1 copy
Tor 3D; Nos. 1-2 1 copy
Joe Kubert's TOR #3 (#3) 1 copy
Associated Works
9-11: The World's Finest Comic Book Writers & Artists Tell Stories to Remember (2002) — Contributor — 250 copies
Marvel Masterworks, Volume 147: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery Volume 3 [#21-30] (2010) — Illustrator — 15 copies
Out of This World Adventures, July 1950 — Contributor — 7 copies
OMAC #8 — Cover artist — 2 copies
Superhero Enterprises Presents The Superhero Book of Goodies Comic Book Toy Catalog Issue 2 Joe Kubert Cover — Cover artist — 1 copy
Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth #36 — Cover artist — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Kubert, Joseph
- Birthdate
- 1926-09-18
- Date of death
- 2012-08-12
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Birthplace
- Yzeran (Jezierzany), Galicia, Poland
- Place of death
- Morristown, New Jersey, USA
- Places of residence
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Education
- High School of Music and Art, New York
- Occupations
- artist
instructor - Organizations
- New York Press Club
Society of Illustrators
National Cartoonist Society (past president)
International Museum of Cartoon Art advisory board - Awards and honors
- Burroughs Award (1972)
National Cartoonist Society awards (1974, 1980)
Inkpot Award (1977)
Big Five Collectors Society Award (1977)
Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award (1997)
Comic Con award for teaching (1997) (show all 12)
United Kingdom art award, special achievement (1997)
Will Eisner Award (1997)
Harvey Award (1997)
Jack Kirby Award (1997)
Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame (1998)
Hero Initiative Lifetime Achievement Award (2007)
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Statistics
- Works
- 157
- Also by
- 33
- Members
- 1,485
- Popularity
- #17,291
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 18
- ISBNs
- 113
- Languages
- 11
- Favorited
- 2