Joe Kubert – Jim Keefe

The Nutcracker
by The Joe Kubert School aka Joe Kubert
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The dailies shown above were originally published December 2-25, 1985.
I don’t know if Sunday pages were also produced.
If anyone knows please drop me a line!

-Jim Keefe

– Update –

From George Hagenauer:

“I talked to Joe right before his death about this as I own (among other Kubert originals ) a Big Ben Bolt original that looked like his work.
Basically over the years he would get commercial projects (The Winnie
winkle comic strip, various comic related catalogs

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etc.) with the idea that
they would involve the students and get them some needed experience and
practice. These projects look like Kubert but usuall
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y are not signed by
him. They are often a mix of his direction and the students art .

How much is Kubert and how much is students depended on the students
skill- and sometimes it didn’t work or as Joe said they couldn’t handle
“Big Ben Bolt so I ended up doing it all myself”

From Sam Kujava:

“When

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I was at Kubert’s School the first year, he offered me a week’s worth of Big Ben Bolt dailies to work on. Joe had already laid
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out the panels, and I went over them and tightened the pencils, making the art look a little more like my “style”. When I finished, on time, Joe took them back to ink. He showed them to me before he sent it off to the syndicate and it more or less totally looked like Joe did it all. No complaint, just observation.”

From D.D.Degg:

“You probably know by now that the NEA Christmas strips were daily only.

Joe Kubert and School did the seasonal strip from 1982 through 1985.
(Weren’t you a freshman at The School in 1985?)

The Owosso (Mich) Argus-Press ran the 1982 (The Christmas Carol)
and 1983 (Gifts of the Magi) strips.

Unfortunately they switched over to the Disney/King Features Christmas strips in 1984, so I hadn’t seen The School’s Hans Brinker (1984) or their 1985 The Nutcracker – until now (thanks again).

Yeah, they all look like Joe Kubert was deeply involved.

In 1981/82 the Joe Kubert School drew the Winnie Winkle strip. Some of those look like Joe took on more of a role of layout/art director and let the young’uns go at it.

These were actually signed J.K.S., for Joe Kubert School.

D.D.Degg mentions “they switched over to the Disney/King Features Christmas strips” – which coincidentally I colored in the 90s when I was on staff at King

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Examples of Disney holiday strips I colored for King Features.

Many thanks for the added info – greatly appreciated! If I find out anything more (like students who helped work on them) I’ll be sure to keep you posted…

-Jim Keefe

A quick look back at C2E2 with some pics and videos.

C2E2 2013

A pan of the huge main floor

The Kubert School booth at C2E2 2013.

Brigid Allanson (left) and Angie Fernot (right) - Class of 2012. — Brigid Allanson and Angie Fernot – Class of 2012.

MCAD students at C2E2 2013.

Jaime Willems and Mandie Brasington.

Maya Kern, Heather Williams, Jacklyn Hedlund and Allison O’Brien

Jesse Charles Baker and Jay Rasgorshek.

Coleman Gilbert, Greer Lawson, April Kasulis and Spencer Amundson.

Jakob “Fro” Ealy

Jack Kotz

Charles Stewart

Alexis Cooke and repeat performance by Mandie.

Professor Barb Schulz and Jacklyn Heeyun Kim.

My table at C2E2…

My daughters Tessa and Anna in line to meet Peter Davison (the 5th Doctor).

Peter Davison (the 5th Doctor) and my daughter Anna.

C2E2 2012

Sights and sounds:
Includes sketches by George Perez and Joe Kubert.

Pics just before the show and Artist Alley.

Convention attendees queued up for the 1:00pm opening.

Joe Kubert lecture.
This would be one of Joe’s last conventions, as he died in August of that same year.

C2E2 2011

Artist Alley sketching tutorials by Thomas Gianni, Jeremy Dale and Gene Ha.

McCormick Place - Chicago — McCormick Place – Chicago

Artists Alley - My new banner. — Artists Alley – My new banner.

Me at my table - C2E2 2011 — Me at my table – C2E2 2011

My daughters Tessa and Anna commandeering the $400 table of someone who left early.

C2E2 2010

Douglas Klauba's beautiful Flash Gordon print. — Douglas Klauba’s beautiful Flash Gordon print.

Last but not least – I had just bought a new car in 2010 that promptly broke down on the drive down to Chicago. Luckily I hadn’t driven that far and I was able to switch to the old reliable 1998 Dodge.

The Keefemobile at the convention - circa 2010. — The Keefemobile at the convention – circa 2010.