Adam Kubert
Adam Kubert ( born October 6, 1959 in Boonton, New Jersey) is an American comic book artist.
Life and work
Kubert is the eldest son of Joe Kubert, the founder of Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art and one of the " grand old man " of modern American science fiction comics.
Like his younger brother Andy Kubert followed Adam Kubert according to the professional model of his father and began in the 1980s as a professional cartoonist to work. Previously, he had acquired a degree in the making medical image data from the Rochester Institute of Technology and attended the drawing school of his father in Dover, New Jersey, and has already operated the age of eleven as " Letterer " that is, as a draftsman, of the texts of a comic booklet by the completion of the drawings entering letter by letter in the speech bubbles.
Kubert, whose artistic influences alongside his father Frank Miller, Will Eisner, Jim Steranko and Alex Toth include, first took over, the " family tradition " following its involvement with the Marvel Comics, who had already been the main artistic home of his father. For Marvel, he worked in the 1980s and 1990s on such series as Wolverine ( with author Larry Hama ), The Incredible Hulk ( with author Peter David), as well as in various series over the mutantischen superhero "The X -Men " as Uncanny X -Men or Ultimate X -Men (including with Mark Millar ). More frequent partner Kuberts were in the past, the Pens Mark Farmer, Danny Miki and John Dell, and colorist Richard Isanove. As Tuscher Kubert operated as an exception, as he illustrated in the early 1990s by his brother, published by DC Comics miniseries Batman Vs. Predator inkte.
After he had designed together with Mark Millar a few issues of the series Ultimate Fantastic Four, changed Kubert 2005 competition Publisher Marvel DC Comics, where he, like his brother, an exclusive contract with multi-year signing.
2006/2007 Kubert illustrated by the film director Richard Donner and the full-time comic book writers Geoff Johns co-wrote, in the Action Comics series published, multi-part science fiction saga Last Son, which has an epoch-making adventures of the superhero Superman to content. Last Son came across a considerable echo in the media - as reported, among other things, the magazine Entertainment Weekly about the project - and became a significant commercial success, which is reflected in several reprints of the comic books in which they appeared, reflected. Further work Kuberts for DC put the cover drawings for the Hawkman series, as well as drawings for dar. Clash
In addition, Kubert operated as a central feature of the drawings, the harsh dynamics of his characters, backgrounds and motion data and charts, a lecturer at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art