Wed, 22 May 2013 02:00:54 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338383#Comment_338383 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338383#Comment_338383 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:36:00 -0700 James Cunningham http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/08/12/joe-kubert-passes-aged-85/

That's a real shock. He's still got projects in the pipeline, so this is completely out of the blue. I don't see any reason given yet.

He never stopped drawing, and it never stopped being incredible.

]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338386#Comment_338386 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338386#Comment_338386 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:00:50 -0700 Pow http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338391#Comment_338391 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338391#Comment_338391 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:05:57 -0700 Soviet Rocket No. 9 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338428#Comment_338428 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338428#Comment_338428 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 08:36:46 -0700 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338432#Comment_338432 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338432#Comment_338432 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:00:23 -0700 StefanJ http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338437#Comment_338437 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338437#Comment_338437 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:47:32 -0700 mister hex
Kubert was the LAST of the Great Old Ones. (Wait! Ditko's still kickin', I think.)

Read an obit on the Beat that said he got his start hanging around the MLJ offices in the late 30s. (MLJ would later become Archie Comics, of all places.) He was like an office boy, making coffee and gettin' sammiches fer the fellas and his parents let him do it. He's 12 years old, hanging out with boozy older men, with nasty language and gambling problems and wives and girlfriends - in what was basically a bullpen, a sweatshop. Because the artists told his parents that he was a good kid, he liked to draw and he was good, he could go far in this business.

It's arguable he did more for training artists than almost anyone else. Swipe Kirby and Kane all you like but Joe Kubert would actually sit you down and tell you his secrets.

My best to his family.

Plus, he had to hang out with Bob Kanghier for all those years. And that can't have been easy. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338507#Comment_338507 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338507#Comment_338507 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:03:37 -0700 mister hex
I'll save your gums for later. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338509#Comment_338509 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338509#Comment_338509 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:26:16 -0700 James Cunningham link helps, for those of us who have no idea what's going on.

Some PR guy screwed up badly, it got fixed. It's very telling of the corporate attitude at DC right now, but not worth getting deeply upset over. Read Karen Berger's obit, linked in the article I linked above, and just resign yourself to the fact that DC is broken right now. Although I'll admit, I didn't think they were broken quite so badly as that to plop an ad in the middle of the obit of an industry legend. Sure, it got fixed, but that it happened at all is telling of... something. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338513#Comment_338513 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10790&Focus=338513#Comment_338513 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:27:19 -0700 ebullientsoul memorial is the best text piece I've read on his passing:

On our last day of school, [Joe Kubert] answered some big-picture questions for us, and he drew pen sketches of some of my classmates. He did this one of me. One of my classmates, Ted Couldron, actually teased Joe for making me look better than I did. Joe smiled and took it gracefully. And to be honest, Ted had a point. Joe’s drawing doesn’t show any of the neurosis that was crushing me, the worry, the self-doubt, the cheeks getting pouchy from three years of pulling all-nighters and eating crappy food. None of that’s there. Apparently he saw something else. Joe gave me an image of myself that was healthy, capable, confident and calm. He did it on paper, and he did it in life. I’ll always be grateful to him for both.

Darwyn Cooke's memorial is crazy, crazy good.

Francesco Frankavilla's memorial is incredible as well. ]]>