Joe Kubert (1926-2012), born in Poland and raised in Brooklyn, was an American comics artist, editor and teacher. He began working in comics as a teenager and drew Hawkman, Enemy Ace and, above all, Sgt. Rock for DC Comics, along with a long run on Tarzan. In 1976 he founded the cartooning school that bears his name in Dover, New Jersey, where several generations of artists trained. From the 1990s on he wrote and drew personal graphic novels, among them Fax from Sarajevo and Yossel: April 19, 1943, about the Warsaw ghetto uprising. His sons Andy and Adam Kubert are also comics artists.
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Joe Kubert (1926-2012), born in Poland and raised in Brooklyn, was an American comics artist, editor and teacher. He began working in comics as a teenager and drew Hawkman, Enemy Ace and, above all, Sgt. Rock for DC Comics, along with a long run on Tarzan. In 1976 he founded the cartooning school that bears his name in Dover, New Jersey, where several generations of artists trained. From the 1990s on he wrote and drew personal graphic novels, among them Fax from Sarajevo and Yossel: April 19, 1943, about the Warsaw ghetto uprising. His sons Andy and Adam Kubert are also comics artists.
