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Joe Kubert

Infobox Comics creator

Joe Kubert (born September 18, 1926) is a Jewish-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 characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman. His sons, Andy Kubert and Adam Kubert, have themselves become successful comic-book artists.

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".

Kubert was inducted into the Harvey Awards' Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1997, and Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1998.

Biography

Early life and career

Kubert was born at Yzeran, Poland [http://www.jbooks.com/firstchapters/index/FC_Kubert1.htm Kubert, Joe. Excerpt from "Yossel"] at JBooks.com] . He emigrated to Brooklyn, New York City, United States, at age two months with his parents and his two-and-a-half-year-old sister Ida. Raised in the East New York neighborhood, the son of a kosher butcher, Kubert started drawing at an early age, encouraged by his parents.

In his introduction to his graphic novel "Yossel", Kubert wrote, "I got my first paying job as a cartoonist for comic books when I was eleven-and-a-half or twelve years old. Five dollars a page. In 1938, that was a lot of money". Another source, utilizing quotes from Kubert, says in 1938, a school friend who was related to Louis Silberkleit, a principal of MLJ Studios (the future Archie Comics), urged Kubert to visit the company, where he began an unofficial apprentice and at age 12 "was allowed to ink a rush job, the pencils of Bob Montana's [teen-humor feature] 'Archie'". [http://www.stevestiles.com/kubert1.htm "The Genesis of Joe Kubert", Part 1, by Steve Stiles] ] Author David Hajdu, who interviewed Kubert and other comics professionals for the book "The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), reported, however, that

"Kubert has told varying versions of the story of his introduction to the comics business at age ten, sometimes setting it at the comics shop run by Harry "A" Chesler, sometimes at MLJ; however, MLJ did not start operation until 1939, when Kubert was thirteen".Hajdu, David. "The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America", page 357. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. ISBN-10: 0-374-18767-3; ISBN-13: 978-0-374-18767-5.]

Kubert attended Manhattan's High School of Music and Art. During this time he and classmate Norman Maurer, a future collaborator, would sometimes skip school in order to see publishers. Kunbert began honing 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 known 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 issues, 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.

1940s and 1950s

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.

In the 1950s, he became managing editor of St. John Publications, where he, his old classmate Norman Maurer, and Norman's brother 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. [ [http://www.universohq.com/Quadrinhos/interview_kubert01.cfm "Universo HQ": Joe Kubert interview] (circa 2001)]

At St. John, writer Norman Maurer and artist Kubert created the enduring character Tor, a prehistoric-human protagonist who debuted in the comic "1,000,000 Years Ago" (Sept. 1953). Tor immediately went on to star in "3-D Comics" #2-3 (Oct.-Nov. 1953), followed by a titular, traditionally 2-D comic-book series, written and drawn by Joe Kubert, that premiered with issue #3 (May 1954). The character has gone on to appear in series from Eclipse Comics, Marvel Comics' Epic imprint, and DC Comics through at least the 1990s. Kubert in the late 1950s unsuccessfully attempted to sell "Tor" as a newspaper comic strip. [The "Tor" samples consisted of 12 daily strips, reprinted in six pages in "Alter Ego" #10 and later expanded to 16 pages in DC Comics' "Tor" #1.]

DC Comics and Sgt. Rock

Beginning with "Our Army At War" #32 (March 1955), Kubert began to freelance again for DC Comics, in addition to Lev Gleason Publications and Atlas Comics, the 1950s iteration of Marvel Comics. By the end of the year he was drawing for DC exclusively, working on such characters as the medieval adventurer Viking Prince, the superhero Hawkman, which would become one of his signature efforts, and, in the war comic "GI Combat", features starring Sgt. Rock and The Haunted Tank, two more signature strips

From 1965 through 1967 he collaborated with author Robin Moore on the syndicated daily comic strip "Tales of the Green Beret" for the Chicago Tribune.

Kubert served as DC Comics' director of publications from 1967 to 1976. During his tenure with DC, Kubert initiated titles based on such Edgar Rice Burroughs properties as "Tarzan" and "Korak". Kubert also supervised the production of the comic books "Sgt. Rock", "Ragman" and "Weird Worlds". While performing supervisory duties he continued to draw for some books, notably "Tarzan" from 1972 to 1975. Kubert also did covers for "Rima the Jungle Girl" from 1974 to 1975.

In 1976, Joe and his wife Muriel founded the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover, New Jersey.

In 2003, Kubert returned to the Sgt. Rock character, illustrating 'Sgt. Rock: Between Hell and a Hard Place' a six-issue miniseries written by Brian Azarello and wrote and drew "Sgt. Rock: The Prophecy", a six-issue miniseries in 2006.

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 the Lubavitcher Rebbes and their disciples. [ [http://www.chabad.org/386330 Chabad.org: Kids Zone - Bookshelf - Comics] ]

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 "postscript" to other, related publications.)

Kubert has drawn graphic novels, including "Yossel: April 19, 1943" (2003) and "Fax from Sarajevo" (1996), the latter initially released as a 207-page hardcover book [Dark Horse Comics (November 1996), ISBN 1-56971-143-7] and two years later as a 224-page trade paperback. [Dark Horse Comics (October 1998) ISBN 1-56971-346-4] The non-fiction book originated as a series of faxes from European comics agent Ervin Rustemagić during the Serbian siege of Sarajevo. Rustemagić 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 was one recipient. Collaborating long-distance, they collected Rustemagić's account of life during wartime, with Kubert and editor Bob Cooper turning the raw faxes into a somber comics tale.

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"
* 1974 and 1980 National Cartoonists Society Awards for best Story Comic Book, plus a 1997 nomination for Best Comic Book.
* The 1997 Eisner Award for "Best Graphic Album: New", for "Fax from Sarajevo"
* The 1997 Harvey Award for "Best Graphic Album of Original Work," for "Fax from Sarajevo"

Kubert was inducted into the Harvey Awards' Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1997, and Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1998.

Hardcover reprints

*"Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years" (Dark Horse Comics)::Volume 1 (2005) ISBN-10 1593074042; ISBN-13 978-1593074043::Volume 2 (2006) ISBN-10 1593074166; ISBN-13 978-1593074166::Volume 3 (2006) ISBN-10 1593074174; ISBN-13 978-1593074173
*"Tor" (DC Comics)::Volume 1 (2001) ISBN-10 1563897814; ISBN-13 978-1563897818 ::Volume 1 (2002) ISBN-10 1563898306; ISBN-13 978-1563898303::Volume 3 (2004) ISBN-10 1563899981; ISBN-13 978-1563899980

Notes

References

* [http://www.kubertsworld.com/bios/joe_kubert.html Joe Kubert's World of Cartooning] (official-site biography)
* [http://lambiek.net/artists/k/kubert.htm Joe Kubert] at Lambiek's Comiclopedia
*gcdb|type=credit|search=Joe+Kubert|title=Joe Kubert
*comicbookdb|type=creator|id=158|title=Joe Kubert

External links

*official|http://www.kubertsworld.com
* [https://www.logsa.army.mil/psmag/pshome.html "PS Magazine"]
* [http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/079_kubert/079_kubert.htm PaulGravett.com: "Joe Kubert: Rock & A Hard Place"]
* [http://www.comicgeekspeak.com/episodes/comic_geek_speak-101.php Comic Geek Speak Podcast Interview (November 21, 2005)]

Источник: Joe Kubert

Sam Glanzman

Sam J. Glanzman (born 1924) is an American comic-book artist, best known for his Charlton Comics series "Hercules", about the mythological Greek demigod, his biographical war stories about his service aboard the U.S.S.Stevens for DC Comics and Marvel Comics, and the "Fightin' Army" feature "The Lonely War of Willy Schultz", a Vietnam-era serial about a German-American U.S. Army captain during World War II.

Biography

Early life and career

Glanzman, whose education ended after grade school, broke into comics in late 1939 during the Golden Age of comic books. At Centaur Publications, he wrote two-page text stories with incidental art for "Amazing-Man Comics". He created Fly-Man in Harvey Comics' superhero anthology "Spitfire Comics" #1 (Aug. 1941), writing and drawing the feature for at least two issues, and also contributed to Harvey's "All-New Short Story Comics" (where he published his first recorded war story), "Champ Comics" (doing the superhero the Human Meteor), and the radio-show tie-in series "Green Hornet Comics" through 1943.

Following his WWII military service in the U.S. Navy, stationed on the USS Stevens (DD-479), he was discharged in 1946. Glanzman eschewed comics ("I was getting $7.50 a page for [Fly-Man] , pencils, inks, story, and coloring. ... I figured, 'Hell, that's not much money.'" [Glanzman interview, "Comic Book Artist" #9 (Aug. 2000), p. 90] ) and began a peripatetic career doing manual labor in cabinet shops, lumber mills and boat yards. After getting married in the 1950s, he worked at Republic Aviation in Farmingdale, Long Island, New York, installing machine guns on military jets.

Seeking to return to art, Glanzman had done some work for the Eastern Color series "Heroic Comics" and "New Heroic Comics" in 1950, and found better-paying assignments doing children's-book illustration. He additionally ghosted (working for pay but no credit for another artist in his or her style) for his brother, Louis Glanzman, on an aircraft hardcover-book series for children. Work was not steady, however, and Glanzman returned to Republic.

Charlton Comics

Still determined to work in art, Glanzman in 1958 answered a classified ad seeking comics artists, and began working with Pat Masulli, the Manhattan-based executive editor of Derby, Connecticut's Charlton Comics, a low-paying publisher who traditionally allowed its comics creators great creative freedom in exchange. He dove into war stories for the titles "Attack", "Battlefield Action", "Fightin' Air Force", "Fightin' Marines", "Submarine Attack", "U.S. Air Force Comics", and "War at Sea" producing a plethora through mid-1961, when he switched to Dell Comics. There he draw for the anthology "Combat", drew the movie adaptation "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (and the suspiciously similar, four-issue "Voyage to the Deep"), and a range of titles from lost-world adventure ("Kona") to heartwarming animal drama ("Lad: A Dog"). He occasionally still moonlighted for Charlton, using the initials "SJG" for his work on the 1962 "Marco Polo" movie adaptation and elsewhere.

Beginning mid-1964, Glanzman moved regularly between Charlton and Dell assignments, almost exclusively on war stories, but also on a Charlton Tarzan series. With writer Joe Gill, he created the Charlton hardboiled detective character Sarge Steel, which would go on to be acquired by DC Comics when a fading Charlton sold the rights to many of its characters in 1983.

At this point during what fans and historians call the Silver Age of comic books, Glanzman, with writer Gill, created the Charlton mythological-adventure series "Hercules", which would run 13 issues (Oct. 1967 - Sept. 1969), and showcase Glanzman's experimental side, where he might float Art Nouveau-bordered panels within action tableaux filled with Hieronymous Boschian nightmares. [Ibid., illustration p. 91]

He also during this time co-created, with writer Will Franz, "The Lonely War of Willy Schultz", a departure from most other combat features of this time, with its conflicted here caught between loyalties in the relatively clear-cut World War II. During combat in the European Theater, U.S. Army captain Schultz is falsely accused and convicted of murder; he escapes and blends into the German Army while seeking a way to clear his name and retain his Allied allegiance. The well-regarded feature, reprinted as late as 1999, ["The Lonely War Of Willy Schultz" #1-4 (May-Nov. 1999), published by Avalon Communications / America's Comics Group] was serialized in Charlton's "Fightin' Army" #76-80, 82-92 (Oct. 1967 - July 1968, Nov. 1969 - July 1970).

During the 1960s we well, Glanzman freelanced for "Outdoor Life" magazine.

DC Comics

War-comic editor-artist Joe Kubert brought Glanzman, a veteran in dual senses, to work on "G.I. Combat" (for years illustrating the feature "Haunted Tank"), "Our Army At War", "Star Spangled War Stories", "Weird War Tales" and other combat titles at DC Comics, one of the two industry leaders. Glanzman would also occasionally draw stories for DC's supernatural-mystery anthologies. By late 1979, with most of DC's war titles either canceled or converted to character series with established teams, Glanzman remained solely on "G.I. Combat" and began freelancing again for Charlton. Following his last "Haunted Tank" story, in "G.I. Combat" #288 (March 1987), Glanzman drew two more stories for DC a year later, in "Sgt. Rock" #420-421 (Feb.-April 1988). He would return to ink penciler Tim Truman on the Western miniseries "Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo" (Sept.-Dec. 1993), "Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm and Such" (March-July 1995), and "Jonah Hex: Shadows West" (Feb.-April 1999).

USS Stevens

*1970::Our Army at War 220 223 225 ::Our Fighting Forces 128
*1971::Our Army at War 227 230 231 232 235 238::Our Fighting Forces 132 134 136
*1972::Our Army at War 240 241 242 244 245 247 248 ::Our Fighting Forces 136 138 139 140::Weird War Tales 4::G. I. Combat 152
*1973::Our Army at War 256 257 258 259 261 262::Our Fighting Forces 141 143 ::Star Spangled War Stories 167 171 174
*1974::Our Army at War 265 266 267 275
*1975::Our Army at War 281 282 ("I am Old Glory") 284
*1976::Our Army at War 293 298
*1977::Sgt. Rock 308

Later career

Glanzman also contributed a handful of war stories to Marvel Comics from 1986-1989, in the black-and-white adventure magazine "Savage Tales", the Marine Corps series "Semper Fi", an issue of "The 'Nam", and most notably "A Sailor's Story" / "Marvel Graphic Novel" #30 (March 1987), a 60-page true account, which he both wrote and drew, of his time on U.S. S. Stevens during World War II. Unusually for Marvel's graphic-novel line, it was released in hardcover rather than as a trade paperback. A trade paperback edition followed, together with a sequel, "A Sailor's Story, Book Two: Winds, Dreams, and Dragons", which continued the story up to the war's end.

Other work in the 1990s includes inking some issues of "Turok Dinosaur Hunter" for Acclaim Comics and "Zorro" for Topps Comics, and writing and drawing a serialized feature in Flashback Comics' "Fantastic Worlds" #1. His last known works are in two anthologies: Writing and drawing the 10-page, true-life story "On the Job: Cooks Tour", in the graphic-story trade-paperback "Streetwise" (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2000, ISBN 1-893905-04-7), and the donated, four-page "There Were Tears in Her Eyes" in the squarebound benefit comic "9-11: The World's Finest Comic Book Writers & Artists Tell Stories to Remember" #2 (2002).

From 1999-2001, the Avalon Communications imprint America's Comic Group / ACG (not to be confused with American Comics Group / AGC) reprinted copious amounts of Glanzman's Charlton Comics work in a number of mostly one-shot titles, including "Hercules", "Flyboys" "Nam Tales" , "Star Combat Tales", "Total War" and "ACG Comics Presents Fire And Steel".

In 2003, Glanzman began working on webcomics, writing and drawing the 19th-century nautical adventure "Apple Jack" and reteaming with his "Willy Schultz" writer, Will Franz, on the Roman centurion series "The Eagle". [ [http://www.comicstories.com/index.htm Comic Book Stories] (webcomics site)]

Footnotes

References

* [http://lambiek.net/artists/g/glanzman_sam.htm The Lambiek Comiclopedia: Sam J. Glanzman]
* [http://www.comics.org The Grand Comics Database]
* [http://www.toonopedia.com/kona.htm Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Kona, Monarch of Monster Isle]

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/ussstevens/ Sam Glanzman's U.S.S. Stevens]

Источник: Sam Glanzman

Paul Levitz

Infobox Comics creator

Paul Levitz (born 21 October 1956) is an American comic book writer, editor and executive. Currently the President of DC Comics, the oldest comics company in the United States, he has worked for the company for over thirty years in a wide variety of roles.

Biography

Levitz was born in Brooklyn, New York to Hannah and Alfred Levitz. He attended Stuyvesant High School [cite news |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/books/07levi.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss |title=DC Comics' Man Upstairs Readjusts His Writer's Cap |first=George Gene |last=Gustines |date=2006-02-07 |publisher=New York Times |accessdate=2007-11-01] during which time he co-wrote and published a popular comic fan magazine, "The Comic Reader." He later enrolled at New York University but left before graduating to work full time at DC Comics, where he had begun working during high school.

DC Comics

Since the mid-1970s, Levitz has been an integral part of DC, working as writer and editor and serving as vice president and executive vice president before assuming the role of President in 2002. Among his earliest roles was helping to edit DC's in-house "Pro-Zine" (professional fanzine) "The Amazing World of DC Comics" (1974-78), a role he was well suited to, having entered the comics field through the ranks of fandom. Along with publisher Jenette Kahn and managing editor Dick Giordano, he was responsible for hiring such writers as Marv Wolfman, John Byrne and Alan Moore, artists such as George Pérez and Keith Giffen, and editor Karen Berger, who contributed to the 1980s revitalization of the company's entire line of comic book heroes.

Levitz has also worked as an editor, most notably on the Batman line of comics. As a writer he is best-known for his work on the title "The Legion of Super-Heroes", which he wrote off and on from 1974 until 1989. Of particular note are his collaborations with artists Michael Netzer (Nasser), James Sherman and Keith Giffen. He also wrote the Justice Society series in All Star Comics during the late 70's after Gerry Conway left the book. He was the co-creator of the Earth-2 Huntress with artist Joe Staton and of Lucien the Librarian with artist Nestor Redondo. Levitz recently returned to writing the Justice Society with issue #82 of "JSA", completing that volume before writer Geoff Johns' relaunch in 2006.

Executive decisions

While he has sometimes provoked controversy — for example, limiting the instances of direct reference to homosexuality in the title "The Authority" spawned a public fight with its then writer, Mark MillarFact|date=May 2008 — Levitz's reign at DC helped the company weather steeply declining sales for superhero comics in the late 1990s.Fact|date=May 2008 Levitz was also instrumental in the push towards graphic novels and trade paperback collections, which could be sold in bookstores and have a longer shelf life than the traditional monthly pamphlet format.Fact|date=May 2008

Other

Levitz married Jeanette Cusimano in 1980 and has three children, Nicole, Philip, and Garret. One of the characters he introduced to the Legion in his second run on the book, GiGi Cusimano, was named after his wife. He currently resides in Chappaqua, New York.

References

External links

* [http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/features/106143682856239.htm 2003 interview by Rik Offenberger]

Источник: Paul Levitz