Bob Lubbers

Robert Bob Lubbers ( born January 10, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American comic book artist. He gained particular notoriety through the comic series Tarzan and Long Sam.

Life and work

Lubbers, who first freelance drew comics, got a job at the publisher Fiction House, its artistic director from 1945 until 1950 in the year 1942. On July 24, 1950 Lubbers first took over the daily strip of Tarzan before 27 August of the same year by Burne Hogarth also took over the Sunday page. Both he held until 1954., In cooperation with Al Capp, who supplied the lyrics and who was later succeeded by his brother Elliot Caplin, was the series Long Sam, which was published from 1954 to 1958. Under the pseudonym Bob Lewis Lubbers drew from 1960 to 1967, the comic book series Secret Agent X - ninth In subsequent years, Lubbers often worked as a ghost artist. among others, from 1970 to 1977 for Capps Li'l Abner. In the late 1970s he turned to advertising and recorded only from 1989 again comics.

Lubbers was recognized in 1998 at the Expo Cartoon Convention in Rome with the Yellow Kid.