While this blog is pretty much about my girl drawing activities, I had to comment on the passing of another comic book legend...Joe Kubert.
I'll admit that it wasn't until I was on the path of becoming an artist myself that I came to fully realize just what a huge talent he was. In my youth I had dismissed his stuff as "too messy" for my slick superhero tastes at the time.
Thankfully in the intervening years I have come to love every line he laid down. The title of Master really only applies to a handful of artists working in comics and Joe is definitely way up that list.
The fact that he started working in comics as a teenager and continued to grow and work on his art till the very end is a HUGE inspiration for me. He obviously kept his fire and enthusiasm for drawing well nurtured till the very end.
I'd say that after 70 plus years of drawing he's certainly earned his rest, but based on his work ethic over the past seven decades, I really doubt that resting is what his idea of heaven would be. So draw on Joe, and thanks!
I anxiously await the publication of IDW's Kubert Tarzan Artist Edition, and anybody who hasn't read his Star Spangled War Stories or Enemy Ace are in for a real treat. I read them in the Showcase volumes myself...hundreds of pages of jaw dropping artwork in stunning pure Kubert, black and white! SSWS is the perfect young boy comic...what kid wouldn't love a comic about soldiers fighting dinosaurs month after month on a mysterious island? Enemy Ace has probably got the most heart of any "war" comic and definitely the best flying scenes, ever, hand's down!
I'll admit that it wasn't until I was on the path of becoming an artist myself that I came to fully realize just what a huge talent he was. In my youth I had dismissed his stuff as "too messy" for my slick superhero tastes at the time.
Thankfully in the intervening years I have come to love every line he laid down. The title of Master really only applies to a handful of artists working in comics and Joe is definitely way up that list.
The fact that he started working in comics as a teenager and continued to grow and work on his art till the very end is a HUGE inspiration for me. He obviously kept his fire and enthusiasm for drawing well nurtured till the very end.
I'd say that after 70 plus years of drawing he's certainly earned his rest, but based on his work ethic over the past seven decades, I really doubt that resting is what his idea of heaven would be. So draw on Joe, and thanks!
I anxiously await the publication of IDW's Kubert Tarzan Artist Edition, and anybody who hasn't read his Star Spangled War Stories or Enemy Ace are in for a real treat. I read them in the Showcase volumes myself...hundreds of pages of jaw dropping artwork in stunning pure Kubert, black and white! SSWS is the perfect young boy comic...what kid wouldn't love a comic about soldiers fighting dinosaurs month after month on a mysterious island? Enemy Ace has probably got the most heart of any "war" comic and definitely the best flying scenes, ever, hand's down!
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