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2013's Infinity Vol.1 #1 cover by Adam Kubert and Laura Martin.

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Lesson from Ben Ruiz.

I’ve told this before, but I keep thinking today about Ben Ruiz, my life drawing teacher at @thekubertschool. Ben was watching me do a figure drawing in charcoal. Lots of ambiguity, smearing the charcoal around with the side of my hand. Bathing the drawing in murk, getting artsy.

He asked why I was drawing like that. He’d asked for a simple, diagramatic depiction of anatomy. I said I was trying to be expressive. Ben took a beat, then said “Steve you're here to accumulate knowledge. You're a first year art student; You have nothing to express but your own ignorance."

Photo of Ben circa 1990 by Felipe Echevarria.

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Ghost Machine creates a Scholarship with the Joe Kubert School

Ghost Machine creates a Scholarship with the Joe Kubert School #comics

Ghost Machine has set up the Ghost Machine Scholarship in collaboration with The Joe Kubert School, the iconic graphic arts educational institute founded by legendary comic book artist Joe Kubert. Located in Dover, NJ, the esteemed school has nurtured and honed the talents of countless comic book artists and illustrators including Andy and Adam Kubert, Lee Weeks, Stephen R. Bissette, as well as…

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Drawn for an assignment for the Kubert School earlier this year. The prompt was "symmetry". Decided to bring out the sacred symbols for this one.

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Original Art - Winnie Winkle Sunday Comic Strip (July05th1981)

Art by Joe Kubert And The Joe Kubert School

Chicago Tribune

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Marvel Age (1993-1994)

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2000 ad for Joe Kubert's World of Cartooning.

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Artist Spotlight: Ava Schrager

We here at East Side Mags have always wanted to see BIG NAMES come through our doors and we’ve had a BUNCH of those - some you’ve NEVER seen anywhere else except conventions. Names like Greg Hildebrandt, actor Patrick Wilson, Vita Ayala, Amy Reeder, Scott Koblish, Tee Franklin and many more to name. But our heart is always in the up-and-coming; the ones who we’re SURE will aspire to be those big names one day. We love the underground. The place where big names are still growing and thriving and learning to one day shatter records and draw the gaze of the wider public!

One such up-and-comer is coming here on October 14 from 2pm-6pm and we’re SUPER EXCITED to introduce you to her!

Meet commercial artist, 2D animator, colorist/illustrator, and multi-talented artist Ava Schrager! Originally from Cincinnati Ohio, Ava is a 20 year old 2nd year Joe Kubert School student as well as the winner of the Wave Blue World Scholarship! Her art has no limitations, she draws anything from realism to anime.

Ava’s art is spectacular and that’s an understatement! This woman is crazy talented and your chance to meet her one on one and grab an awesome sketch is here!

Join us!

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ive got my commission info page and my kofi (to help with paying for school) under "links" in my bio now btw

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The WIZARD Files, Ep. 44: John Livesay

We interview veteran comic book inker, John Livesay about his career working for Top Cow, Extreme Studios, Marvel, DC Comics and more all throughout the 90’s and beyond. Plus, we learn about his lifelong comic book collecting hobby and personal experience trying to get recognized in Wizard magazine, among many other amazing stories Want to take your WIZARDS experience to the next level? Get an…

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2011's X-Men: Schism promotional art by Adam Kubert & Justin Ponsor (RIP).

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Twelve years ago today.

Remembering Joe Kubert.

The first drawing I ever hung up in my room was a copy I made of Joe Kubert’s cover for issue #1 of “Justice Inc.”

Looking at that cover now, it’s easy to see why 9 year old me was enthralled by it. It had a sense of danger that wasn’t present in the other comics I was reading. Joe drew a grim faced hero plunging through the sky towards us as a parachute erupts from his back. The guy looks weather-beaten, with sharp cheekbones, a furrowed brow, and deep grooves around the nose and mouth. Most of the comics heroes I’d encountered were glowing, perfect Olympians, frozen at a sunny, youthful point in their mid-20s. Not Kubert’s. His heroes were older and sinewy, never armor-plated with idealized musculature. Capable, but vulnerable, they always looked like they’d been through a lot. Clearly, the work they did was hard, and their success, if it came at all, would come at a cost.

Years later at his school, my classmates and I would learn from Joe that this is how things are in real life. Joe had a titanic work ethic, teaching and dealing with administrative matters at the school while continuing a productive freelance career, keeping in shape, staying active in his community and being there for his family. He never seemed to be in a hurry, but he got a lot done, all while maintaining the gravity and authority of an Easter Island statue. A young artist couldn’t ask for a better role model.

One thing that must have helped Joe keep going was that while he always described drawing as work, he clearly loved doing it. He attended the school’s evening life drawing sessions, not as an instructor, but just for the pleasure and the practice of drawing from a live model. The man was wrapping up his fifth decade as a working artist, and he still spent his free time doing figure studies, humbly recording observations in charcoal or chalk, seeing what else the model could teach him. In class, when he wasn’t critiquing or lecturing, he doodled with whatever tool was handy. He’d sometimes tear these doodles up and toss them in the trash after class, prompting a mad rush of Kubies to the basket to recover what he’d done. Here’s one that I recovered and taped back together.

Joe was a patient and generous instructor. There was a one genuine prodigy in my class, and a couple of students who were close to professional. But most of us (and that includes me) were struggling to reach the bottom rung of competence. That didn’t stop Joe from taking us and our efforts seriously. I can’t communicate how much this meant to us.

We’d bring our work to him, and he’d take a moment to study it as a whole. Then he’d ask us a few incisive questions about our goals for a figure, a panel, a sequence. Just formulating the answers was valuable. Joe never let us lose sight of our role as communicators. There needed to be a reason for every choice we made on a page. Then he’d lay tracing paper over it and, with a soft lead pencil, would show us how we could tell the story more effectively. If we’d fixed a problem he’d spotted in our work before, he’d note this. If we failed to fix it, he’d correct us again, sometimes with a bit of gentle ribbing. For all his gravity, he had a sense of humor, and he urged us to loosen up and not take ourselves so seriously. We were going to be learning throughout our entire careers, and we’d never be 100% happy with what we did. “Do the best you can with the time allotted and move on.” “If something didn’t work on this page, get it right on the next one.” “Let yourself have fun with it.”

That last one was tough. “Let yourself have fun with it.” He said that a lot our last year at school. It seemed impossible. We’d come a long way since our freshman year, but we knew how far we had to go. For me, drawing was still more about failure than fun. I was panicking, convinced that I’d never be able to support myself as an artist. I don’t think I was alone. A lot of my classmates felt the same. Joe didn’t. He was confident about our skills, and more importantly, about the quality of what we’d been taught.

On our last day of school, he answered some big-picture questions for us, and he drew pen sketches of some of my classmates. He did this one of me.

One of my classmates teased Joe for making me look better than I did.  Joe smiled and took it gracefully.  And to be honest, that classmate had a point. Joe’s drawing doesn’t show any of the neurosis that was crushing me, the worry, the self-doubt, the cheeks getting pouchy from three years of pulling all-nighters and eating crappy food.  None of that’s there. Apparently he saw something else.  Joe gave me an image of myself that was healthy, capable, confident and calm. He did it on paper, and he did it in life. I’ll always be grateful to him for both.

Steve Lieber

August 12th, 2012.

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1st Folio #1 (March 1984) by Pacific Comics

Written and drawn by Joe Kubert, Mike Chen, Adam Kubert, Andy Kubert, Rex Lindsey, Brad Joyce, and Ron Randall, cover by Joe Kubert.

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Some comic news and reviews from around the web to start the day #comics #comicbooks

It’s a new week and we’ve got a lot coming at you. We’re kicking it off with some comic news and reviews from around the web you might have missed! How to Love Comics – Titans: Beast World Reading Order Checklist – For those interested in the event, here’s a handy guide. ICv2 – Mattel Partners with Abrams, IDW for ‘Monster High’ Novels and Comics – Nice. The Beat – THE JOE KUBERT SCHOOL adds…

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When I stared writing this gag, the original idea was to draw a dream that would be ended by a leg cramp. I've had recurring, terrible cramps in my calves ever since I used to walk to school carrying my insanely heavy portfolio and bag while at the Kubert School. They started then and have never really let up. Then I had the idea to make the dream a stress dream, since that's been a running theme of late. In a perfect world where there's enough of a demand for this strip to run 2 or 3 days a week, this core idea could have filled up a few strips. (Help make this happen by supporting me on Patreon... hint, hint!) On one level, there's the stress dream of needing to pee and only finding toilets in INCREDIBLY AWKWARD places. This one with the intersection happens to me a LOT, honestly. (With a number of variations on the visual shown. lol) Honestly, the only thing that's a 100% cartoon invention here is the inclusion of the "toilet shark" to bring the cramp into the dream a little. In reality, they just happen so fast that I'm woken up without warning by them. And yes... the punchline HAS happened at least once. lol