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  Encyclopedia: Joe Kubert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, or Joe Kubert School, located in Dover, New Jersey, is a three-year technical school that teaches the principles of sequential art and the particular craft of the comics industry as well as commercial illustration, and also offers a major in...
Joe Kubert รจ uno dei maggiori disegnatori e illustratori americani, fondatore dell'omonima scuola di fumetto.
Andy Kubert is an American comic book artist; the son of comics artist Joe Kubert (and his brother Adam Kubert is also a comics artist).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Joe-Kubert   (667 words)

  
 Joe Kubert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joe Kubert is a legendary 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 Sgt.
His sons, Andy Kubert and Adam Kubert, have followed in his footsteps and themselves become successful comic book artists.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_Kubert   (180 words)

  
 News > Interviews > Joe Kubert
Joe Kubert: First, I just want to make it clear that this is something I started over 2 years before any publisher knew of its existence; it wasn't initiated by Dark Horse, although they've been absolutely terrific every step of the way since they've been involved.
Kubert: Despite the fact that there was some news in papers, very few people were cognizant of what the heck was going on in Sarajevo, and I felt this was something people should know about.
Kubert: There are certain things that lent themselves to graphic illustration, but it would have been boring to have had talking heads for 10 pages when you can describe the same situation in two or three sentences.
www.darkhorse.com /news/interviews.php?id=670   (1435 words)

  
 School Codifies a Literary Form That Started in the Funny Pages by Samuel G. Freedman
Sometime in 1939, when Joe Kubert was 13 years old and an aspiring cartoonist, he rode the subway from the far reaches of immigrant Brooklyn to the unknown world of Manhattan and applied for a job.
Kubert's enduring impact, it stands also for the growing literary legitimacy of comics, their growth in length and sophistication into "graphic novels." The form traces its origins to Will Eisner's "Contract With God," an unsentimental memoir of his Bronx childhood published in 1978.
Kubert's school has played a major role in codifying and propounding what might be thought of as the canon of cartoon art.
www.samuelfreedman.com /articles/education/nyt10062004.html   (960 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, in Dover, N.J., is the only institution of its kind: a three-year accredited trade school that teaches students how to draw comic books.
Kubert, son of a kosher butcher from Brooklyn, got his first cartoon job at 12 after he took some his drawings to the downtown Manhattan studio that produced Archie comics.
Kubert teaches advanced classes to third-year students and is completing a new hardcover Sgt. Rock graphic novel, a more sophisticated, long-form of the beloved title.
www.jrn.columbia.edu /academics/studentwork/cns/2002-07-07/syndication/kburke-comicbookcollege.txt   (921 words)

  
 FORWARD : Arts & Letters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Five years ago, veteran comic book artist Joe Kubert visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He expected to be moved, but since he and his parents had escaped from Poland before the Nazi genocide began, he assumed his emotional reaction would be relatively contained.
Kubert also selected a heavy gray stock for the book's pages, because he wanted the paper to feel like something someone could have used at that time, under those circumstances.
Kubert also had a large role in the design of the book's cover, the image of an outstretched arm, sleeve rolled up to reveal tattooed numbers reaching out against a striped background.
www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.12.19/arts2.html   (712 words)

  
 COMICON.com: LIVING LEGENDS JOE KUBERT'S YOSSEL
Joe Kubert's father was a kosher butcher and their family, compared to others, was pretty well off in Yzeran.
Because his mother was pregnant with Joe, the Kuberts were refused passage to the United States from Southhampton in England, because the captain thought the trip was hazardous and did not want Mrs.
Joe Kubert is a artist whose imagery is so powerful that the reader feels that he is there and that the artist draw the story just as it happened, as it happened.
www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=001405   (2745 words)

  
 Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art
The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, or Joe Kubert School, located in Dover, New Jersey, is a three-year technical school that teaches the principles of sequential art and the particular craft of the comics industry as well as commercial illustration, and also offers a major in film animation.
Founded in 1976 by cartoonist Joe Kubert, it was and still is the only accredited school devoted entirely to cartooning.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_Kubert_School_of_Cartoon_and_Graphic_Art   (232 words)

  
 Pop Thought -- Mike Gold
Joe has continued in the medium and, lately, has been best known for two collaborations with his wife Muriel: The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, and the infinite number of Kubert Kids who seem to produce the lion’s share of the nation’s better comics output these days.
So it is with expected high praise that I announce that Joe Kubert has taken a loving step back in his career and turned out one of the most engrossing graphic novels I’ve read in a long time.
Every classic Kubert shot and pose is here: the tight facial close-ups, the muscle-rippling mano-a-mano struggles, the carefully clever spotting of fls, the silhouette knockouts, the dramatic camera angles, and of course Joe’s trademark: the high-emotion eye shots.
www.popthought.com /display_column.asp?DAID=713   (840 words)

  
 Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
He is sitting in his office in Dover, N.J., where he runs the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, the first and only accredited school in the country devoted to cartoon graphics.
Unlike the fictional Yossel, Kubert’s father left the small town of Yzeran with his pregnant wife and 2-year-old daughter in the spring of 1926 to board a boat in Southampton, England, headed for America.
Kubert, two of whose sons have followed him into the comic book business, is not done with Jewish-themed projects.
www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=8776   (1407 words)

  
 NEWSARAMA.COM: TALKING ROCK WITH JOE KUBERT
Joe Kubert is the living legend of comics.
Joe Kubert: I am not really attracted to it inordinately, it not really of interest to me then any other subject matter that I take on, other then the fact that I am well acquainted with Sgt Rock and it’s something I enjoy doing, but the subject war is not a favorite subject of mine.
NRAMA: Also you share that talent, you have been running a The Joe Kubert's World of Cartooning school since 1976 and you have helped in the development of a lot of talented people who are working today.
www.newsarama.com /images/interviews/2005/kubert/JoeKubert.htm   (1985 words)

  
 QUADRINHOS UNIVERSO HQ
At the age of 75, Joe Kubert is one of the world's most venerated artists.
At 75 Joseph Kubert, whose drawings have awed several generations of fans with such fine works as Tarzan, Hawkman, Enemy Ace, Sgt. Rock and Flash among many others, is still a big name in any comic convention.
Kubert: It was very exciting, very exhilarating and very rewarding because when the Burroughs people came to talk to DC or vice versa, maybe DC came to the Burroughs people, they asked for me to do the Tarzan strip.
www.universohq.com /quadrinhos/interview_kubert01.cfm   (1129 words)

  
 Albert Moy Comic Art
Joe Kubert is one of the most respected and legendary figures in comics history having worked from the Golden Age, shaping the course of the Silver, Bronze Age, & Modern Age to guiding the next generation of artists today.
Kubert's gritty realism added an edge to the stories that were great for War and Western stories that required a serious tone.
It was through Kubert's artwork that writers could comment on race, war, and ultimately the triumph of the human spirit.
www.albertmoy.com /ArtistGalleryRoom.asp?ArtistId=543   (134 words)

  
 Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art
What was originally only an idea, based on a lifetime of experience in his selected profession, was implemented in the form of a school in 1976 by Joe Kubert and his wife, Muriel.
In addition to his own experience, Joe sought knowledge from intimates in his profession, those who are and have been considered top-echelon practitioners.
The school is the result of Joe Kubert's perception of a recognized need.
www.careercolleges.com /campaign/92/Joe-Kubert-School-of-Cartoon-and-Graphic-Art.html   (264 words)

  
 Strange-Haven.com News -- The Road Not Taken - Joe Kubert on Yossel
Expanding, Kubert said that his desire to tell this story didn’t come from a desire to tell the story about the Holocaust as much as it was to explore what could have happened to individuals, namely, himself, at that time in history had they been there.
While Kubert’s war stories were often notable for being quietly anti-war, Fax and Yossel go deeper, with the latter being his most powerful statement without making a statement.
Kubert is working on a new graphic novel set in Brooklyn of the 1930s.
www.strange-haven.com /news/090703/news3.html   (2698 words)

  
 Joe Kubert on Sgt. Rock: SBC Q&A
If his storytelling prowess didn’t make him an established name in the industry, his school (The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art [founded in 1976]) would.
Here’s just a snippet of Joe’s bio: “Born in 1926, Joe Kubert began his career at the age of eleven as an apprentice for Harry ‘A’ Chesler, a comic book production house.
Joe Kubert: The book we did would apply to any war where soldiers are in battle and might lose their lives.
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /news/106930719573960.htm   (1354 words)

  
 MYRANT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Joe has a bone-crunching handshake, a macho handshake that is a challenge, a test, and the warmest welcome imaginable, all in one.
With the exception of our little outpost of creativity at the Kubert School and the good people we came to know and love in Dover and nearby Hopatcong and elsewhere, it seemed at times to us that the entirety of NJ was a slow-mo car accident in progress.
Muriel Kubert met us at the door, putting us at ease as best she could, though I could see Muriel was a bit nervous, too.
srbissette.com /2005/09/moving-day-part-two-broken-rope.html   (2057 words)

  
 Joe Kubert: From Shtetl to Grand Master - Part One
When you enter The Joe Kubert School of Comic Art, the first thing that tags you is demographic vertigo as you plod out of sleepy-town Dover and into a new dimension of artistic dynamism.
Now I’ve known Joe for years and even had the good fortune of having one of his covers on a book of mine (Crawling From the Wreckage, Aardwolf Publishing, 1996) but this was the first time we ever sat back in his digs with a tape recorder running.
Joe: The publication is actually three or four years old now—it was originally published in Italy [by Planeta DeAgostini] but it’s now being published for the first time in the United States.
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /masters/111759071768379.htm   (1799 words)

  
 VERTIGO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kubert was also one of the first creators to adapt the long-form version of comics that became known as graphic novels, with his first two works being a graphic novel of Tor and a war adventure entitled Abraham Stone.
Kubert's adaptation of this real-life situation into a gripping graphic narrative earned him accolades in the mainstream and trade press alike.
Pursuing this educational path further, in 1998 Kubert established a series of correspondence courses under the banner of Joe Kubert's World of Cartooning, and in 1999 Watson-Guptill published his book Superheroes: Joe Kubert's Wonderful World of Comics, an instructional book on the art of creating powerful comic-book characters.
www.dccomics.com /features/sgtrockhell/creator_bios.html   (504 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle: Books: A Different Kind of World
Because they did, Kubert was able to grow up in Brooklyn and, at just 11 years old, get in on the ground floor of the American comic book industry, where he quickly established himself as a major artist.
Kubert is nothing if not mindful of his good fortune; in interview upon interview, he proclaims himself "the luckiest man in the world." Perhaps because of that, he turned to the past to explore an alternate history for himself, the tale of what might have happened to him had he not been so fortunate.
Joe Kubert: It's hard, of course, to step back into that kind of a mindset that many years ago, but it just seemed like a natural thing for me to do.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2004-11-05/books_feature.html   (2278 words)

  
 artbomb.net
Joe Kubert's parents emigrated to the United States from Poland in 1926, when Joe was less than a year old.
The greatest of Joe's many accomplishments was the founding of the first -- and still, only -- accredited school devoted soley to graphic storytelling.
Opened in 1976, The Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphics has produced many of today's leading cartoonists.
www.artbomb.net /profile.jsp?idx=3&cid=167   (189 words)

  
 Dark Horse Comics > Profile > Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years Volume 1 HC
Few artists can capture visceral action sequences and the dynamic human form like Joe Kubert, and his expressive talents are fully realized in his 1970s Tarzan comics.
This beautiful archive collection-with an introduction by Kubert and color restoration based off of Tatjana Wood's original colors-is a must-have for fans of timeless adventure tales and Joe Kubert's undeniable intensity and skill.
Joe Kubert's Tarzan, Volume One, reprints issues 207 through 214 of the 1970s run, featuring "Origin of the Ape Man" (a bold adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' first Tarzan novel), "Jungle Tales of Tarzan," and other stories inspired by Burroughs' books-all written and drawn by the legendary Joe Kubert!
www.darkhorse.com /profile/profile.php?sku=10-922   (269 words)

  
 TFAW.com: Fax from Sarajevo
As Joe began to receive these messages, he saw a story unfolding, one of horror and outrage and inhumanity, and of hope.
And Joe did what he had done for years -- what he had become famous for doing -- he put the story to paper.
The result is one of the greatest achievements of one of comics' greatest living masters, a story of hope and promise against the worst kind of odds.
www.tfaw.com /profile.html?SKU=45055&qt=dhbuy3   (331 words)

  
 Komikwerks
Joe has written and illustrated four graphic novels: "TOR", "ABRAHAM STONE", "FAX FROM SARAJEVO", and "YOSSEL: APRIL 19, 1943".
In October, 1998, Joe established JOE KUBERT'S WORLD OF CARTOONING, which produces a series of correspondence courses.
He is the recipient of many awards, as well as being a past vice-president of the National Cartoonist Society; a member of the Advisory Board for the International Museum of Cartoon Art; member of the New York Press Club; and the Society of Illustrators.
www.komikwerks.com /kubert_list.php   (489 words)

  
 NEWSARAMA - THE ROAD NOT TAKEN - JOE KUBERT ON YOSSEL
These people are putting their hearts in their stories and besides, we all know the great quality of Joe Kubert's work.
We need to get the stories out now (as Joe is, in a sense, getting his parent's and relative's stories out) before the event in question becomes too distant.
With someone as talented as Joe Kubert on this subject, I will be picking up this book for sure.
www.newsarama.com /forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5483   (4370 words)

  
 Komikwerks: ibooks Previews
An inspiring tale of the triumph of the human spirit in the Warsaw ghetto of World War II by one of the legends of the graphic story medium, Joe Kubert.
And it is a tale of inspiring triumph; of how people deprived of everything rise above the horror and degradation that is their existence and, in a final act of defiance and humanity, turn on their oppressors and launch the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.
JOE KUBERT is one of the most acclaimed artistic legends in comics today.
www.komikwerks.com /ibook.php?ib=8   (333 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Superheroes: Joe Kubert's Wonderful World of Comics: Books: Joe Kubert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Joe Kubert is a master in the field, and this book gives not only tips on the tools of the trade, but advice on any number of topics related to the art of comics.
It would have been great to see some more comments as to WHY Kubert made some of the storytelling choices he did and reproducing the actual, final pages of the story seems like a bit of a no-brainer.
Kubert, Joe: Superheroes: Joe Kubert's Wonderful World of Comics.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0823025616?v=glance   (1306 words)

  
 Comic College
If you want a job on the superhero assembly line, there's only one school to attend: the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art.
Students go through three years of intense training where they must have the discipline and ability to come up with plots, put the action onto storyboard panels, illustrate, ink, color and letter the colorful tomes under excruciating deadlines.
Kubert spent his 60-plus year career working on every major title in the comic book industry, and is best known for his renderings of famous superheroes like Batman and Tarzan.
www.acfnewsource.org /art/comic_college.html   (296 words)

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