Superheroes: Joe Kubert's Wonderful World of Comics [Paperback]

Joe Kubert (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1999

Dynamic superheroes star in this entertaining instructional on the art of creating powerful comic book characters.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill (November 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823025616
• ISBN-13: 978-0823025619
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,294,851 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A very nice instructive book, but a missed oppurtunity., March 14, 2000

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Jon Huff "designer and aritst" (IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Superheroes: Joe Kubert's Wonderful World of Comics (Paperback)

If I had never read an instructive tome on drawing comics before, I'm sure I would find this very impressive. Being that there are several out there already, this feels like a missed oppurtunity.

First of all, the presentation is rather lackluster. For a medium as dynamic as comic books I believe the design of the book could have been a bit more interesting. It's all fairly standard and not all thay dynamic.

Of course the content is what counts the most, and there is a lot of worthy elements presented here. The problem is most of it has already been presented in other books, like the excellent How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way. The beginning section on the history of comics is the exception. It is both interesting and useful and hasn't been done in this paticular type of book before to my knowledge. The dissapointing part is that it would have been very interesting to see how a master like Kubert creates his illustrations. We are given tantalizing tidbits, but it could have been much meatier. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the final section. We are treated to the original script for a short lived character called Ragman. We get to see the rough layouts and there are interesting, but many of the pages are reproduced at a greatly reduced size. It would have been great to see some more comments as to WHY Kubert made some of the storytelling choices he did and reproducing the actual, final pages of the story seems like a bit of a no-brainer. Alas, neither of these things are done.

Definitely buy this book if you are interested in a career in comic books. It provides a solid foundation, but it is a far cry from the seminal, complete book for aspiring comic book artists we have been waiting for.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great reference for the comic book artist., May 21, 2007

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Cerberus "Cerberus" (Paris,France) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Superheroes: Joe Kubert's Wonderful World of Comics (Paperback)

excellent book by a great comic book artist.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Vintage, July 12, 2002

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Derek Ercolano (NY, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Superheroes: Joe Kubert's Wonderful World of Comics (Paperback)

I thought this book was great and helped me a great deal but, after reading other books like this it doesnt have the style and ideas that artists use today.The books ideas are rather boring and you will lose intrest if you dont like his ideas for characters. Though if you do finish this book as I have you willbe amazed at how much this book helps your drawing ability.