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Authors and Artists for Young Adults on Joe Kubert
Joe Kubert is, as a Publishers Weekly contributor noted, "one of the mainstream comics' most talented and celebrated interpreters of the horrors of war." Such interpretations have come not only in the "Sgt. Rock" series, but also in Kubert's graphic novels, Fax from Sarajevo: A Story of Survival and Yossel: April 19, 1943. An illustrator and cartoonist since the 1930s, Kubert has witnessed and been a part of the evolution of comics from the Golden Age of superheroes in tights to the rise in popularity of edgy graphic novels at the turn of the twenty-first century. Through it all he has retained, as a Publishers Weekly critic noted, a "signature graphic style--brisk, precisely rendered, emotionally charged linework in dramatically composed panels." The winner of a Will Eisner Hall of Fame Award, Kubert has passed his love for comics to his two sons, Adam and Andy, who are also professional illustrators...
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