RIP Joe Kubert

From ‘Sgt. Rock’ to the Kubert School, comic book creator and teacher Joe Kubert leaves a legendary legacy.

From an obituary in the Washington Post...

Kubert was one of the few left whose careers stretched back to nearly the dawn of the comic book. Born in Poland in 1926 shortly before his family immigrated to the United States, the Brooklyn-raised Kubert reportedly drew on the shop paper of his father, a kosher butcher. Young Joe would gain entrée into professional comics by somewhere between age 10 and 13 (depending on which his own recollections you believe). 

Kubert spent most of his career working for DC Comics, developing his kinetic line and exquisitely weighted cross-hatchings that defined his signature style. The artist-writer became most associated with Sgt. Rock and Enemy Ace and Hawkman and the prehistoric Tor — on his way to becoming a master of action and the recognized leader in “war comics.” He also had a stellar run on Tarzan. As Mark Evanier writes: “Joe had a way of imbuing the work with a kind of four-color testosterone. No one did male better.”