Art of Joe Kubert

Klappentext A coffee table art book spanning all 70 years of this legendary creator s work! Zusammenfassung The Art of Joe Kubert is a deluxe! full-color coffee table book that honors this legendary creator with beautifully reproduced artwork from every phase of his career as well as critical commentary by the book's editor! comics historian and Kubert biographer Bill Schelly. Schelly's text parallels the visual evolution of the artist's work! tracing his life and career from his early days drawing Hawkman in the Golden Age! to his creation of Tor! his involvement in creating 3-D comics in the 1950s! his tour de force stints on DC's war comics - Sgt. Rock! The Unknown Soldier and the groundbreaking Enemy Ace - in the 1960s! to illustrating the adventures of Tarzan in the 1970s. And before finding a creative safe haven at DC Comics in the '50s! Kubert drew for many smaller and more obscure companies! including Holyoke! Quality! Fiction House! Harvey! St. John! and others - all of which are represented! including a 50-page section of comic-book stories in the horror! crime! and SF genres from the pre-Comics Code era! reprinted in full color for the first time.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Schelly, Joe Kubert, Bill Schelly, Schelly Bill
• Assisted by: Joe Kubert (Illustration), Bill Schelly (Editor)
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.10.2011
• EAN: 9781606994870
• ISBN: 978-1-60699-487-0
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Joe Kubert Archives
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Illustration, Comic book & cartoon art, Comic book and cartoon artwork, Individual designers, Individual designers or design groups, DESIGN / Individual Designers