Joe Kubert

So I'm very curious for you, like, I, I'm assuming you were drawing your own comics and having your own, you know, fun time just by yourself.

But what led, then, to your decision to attend the Joe Kubert School? Why did you feel you needed that?

Right.

So actually linking to your first question of it being art or comics or whichever, uh, drew me to it, as soon as I started buying the books- I just assumed, 'cause again, I didn't think of, I didn't recognize Herb Trimpe or those initial names when I got the books.

You, a- any way they go." I talked to other Kubert, uh, graduates that had passed, uh, and, and graduated, moved on to work.

I made appointments with them.

Um, I actually didn't have Joe Kubert my first year of the school, but I made an appointment with him at the end of the school year, 'cause I'm like, "I paid all this money to be at the Joe Kubert School.

I'm gonna talk to Joe." Um, there was a bunch of that stuff where I joined the alumni association for the Kubert School.

The race is on.

Can the Tattered Dominion rescue the boy before the hitmen get to him? Will the blind mute be able to identify killers when they do appear? The startling answers are in your Joe Kubert, Bob Kaniger, Redondo Studio presentation of See No Evil in Ragman number three.

I read this at one point and I remember enjoying reading the original Ragmans, but I don't.

I have much memory of them.

All right, big surprises are coming in our Army at War number 300.

Now, this one takes place in the past, in World War II.

Editor Joe Kubert has some big surprises in store to celebrate the 300th issue of our Army at War, but he and Sergeant Rock are keeping a military secret.

All we can say is that it'll be a battle blockbuster.

And we are going to continue to shine that spotlight, not just today, but well into the remainder of this year.

Today, though, as you can see by the masthead, by the opening, by the thumbnails, we are so excited, so honored to be joined by one Mr. Andy Kubert.

Andy is an incredible talent and a part of an a legendary uh family of talent uh both he and his brother adam uh are part of the the incredible cubert legacy that i've experienced in my lifetime that started with their father joe and then you know these two incredible sons that for my experience andy and adam are are the the uh cuberts i probably absorbed most because as you'll see in my conversation with andy I was picking up everything he did.

I was buying every single comic book.

And there are people that I greatly admire.

that I wanted to get to know better, to learn more from, to pick their brains.

And this entire summer, I have been focused on sitting down and picking the brain of one Andy Kubert because he had one of the best seats that you could possibly imagine having in the swirl, the craziness that was the 90s.

To me, one of the biggest stories surrounding Andy is he followed maybe the most intimidating act that there ever would be to follow.

It's like a 12-issue thick trade, uh, over here top left.

Um, and then, you know, they got the- The, uh, the, the Kubert art outside of some of the, the areas, and then here's inside the actual comic store, um, where they have Epic collections on sale now.

And they said they got those-

Nice

I, I have no doubt that it's not going to miss a beat.

Uh, all right, G.I. Joe and the Energon Universe continues to sell really, really well for, uh, Skybound.

Just incredibly strong.

This is a milestone issue, so typically, uh, they're very new-reader friendly, and they have extra material and what have you.

Uh, all right.

Anyway, let's move on.

Uh, from DC, we've got that Joe Kubert, A Life in Covers book that I talked about, uh, I think last week.

I'm definitely ordering that.

Schwartz, who had a background in science fiction, decided not to bring back the original version of The Flash from the 1940s.

Instead, he worked with writers Robert Kaniger and John Broome, as well as artists Carmine Infantino and Joe Kubert, to create a new character named Barry Allen.

This version of The Flash was a scientist who gained super speed and was featured in Showcase 15 in October 1956.

This release was very popular and marked the beginning of the Silver Age of comic books.