Josef Rubinstein

Josef " Joe" Rubinstein ( born June 4, 1958 in Germany ) is an American comic book artist.

Life and work

Rubinstein was born in 1958 in Germany to Jewish parents. As a child, he emigrated with his parents until after Israel, and later, in 1963, in the United States, where they settled in New York City. At age eleven, he began courses in 1969 to visit New York Art Students League, where, among others, Arthur J. Foster, son of Hal Foster was one of his teachers. 1971 succeeded Rubinstein to take at the age of thirteen, in the professional comic book industry foot as he gave the artist Neal Adams met a trade fair. Adams, Rubinstein's great artistic role model at that time, eventually the teenager agreed to a job as an assistant in his and give Dick Giordano's studio Continuity Associates in the Rubinstein worked the next year and a half.

Following this assistantship Rubinstein in 1975 began working as a freelance contract signatory. He specializes in today mainly on follow up with the pencil sketches of other artists as technical pens and prepare for the mass reprints. Since then he has drawn for all major and many smaller U.S. comic publishers, so for DC Comics, Marvel Comics and Dark Horse.

For Marvel Comics Rubinstein was involved as Inker instrumental in the decades-long duration mammoth project Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. For DC he inked numerous books by well-known series like Action Comics, Detective Comics, Shadow of the Bat, Justice League International, Justice League Europe, Batman, Aquaman, The Spectre, Swamp Thing, Anarky, Starman, and the mini-series ion invasion! and Genesis. Responsible he was with Doug Mahnke at the relaunched Superman The Man of Steel - the German editions of Panini publisher.

His extensive work as a cartoonist brought Rubinstein an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, the zubilligt him the rank of that technical pen, who has worked with the most subscribers and the highest number of signatories can show their works, he has inked. Among the signatories whose pencil work Rubinstein has revised include Don Newton, Dan Jurgens, Staz Johnson, Norm Breyfogle, Ron Frenz and John Byrne. Authors with whom he has worked include Alan Grant, Chuck Dixon, John Ostrander, Tom Peyer, Dan Jurgens, Jeph Loeb and Joe Kelly.