Andy Kubert - Biography

Andrew "Andy" Kubert (born February 27, 1962) is an American comic book artist, son of Joe Kubert, and brother of Adam Kubert, both of whom are also artists. He is a graduate of and an instructor of second-year classes at The Kubert School, founded by his father (who also teaches there).

Early life

Andy Kubert was born on February 27, 1962, the third member (after father Joe and elder brother Adam Kubert) of one of the the Kubert comics artist family.

Kubert graduated from his father's Dover, New Jersey school, the Joe Kubert School.

Career

While Kubert started at DC Comics, drawing Adam Strange and the Batman vs. Predator crossover, he is best known for his work at Marvel Comics, specifically the company's X-Men titles. An occasional cover artist on Uncanny X-Men (drawing the first cover appearance of the character Gambit) and X-Men Classic, Kubert later served as a fill-in penciller for Uncanny X-Men #279-280 and #288 before becoming the regular penciller on X-Men vol. 2 (starting with #14), following Jim Lee's departure from Marvel to form Image Comics.

Both Adam and his brother, Andy, signed exclusive contracts to work for DC Comics in 2005. According to DC editor Mike Marts, Andy is working on a top secret project involving Batman, after leaving the monthly title's illustrating duties to current artist Tony Daniel.

Kubert has been announced to be doing the covers to Batman: Cacophony, a 3-issue miniseries due out in November 2008. Andy will also be illustrating the two-issue Batman story by Neil Gaiman entitled, "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" This will reunite Gaiman and Kubert, who previously worked together on the series Marvel 1602.

While his brother Adam has returned to Marvel Comics following his three year deal with DC, Dan DiDio has confirmed that following 'Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?' Andy has two more Batman projects in the works, one of which he is writing himself. He contributed covers to the Blackest Night: Batman mini-series, as well as variant covers for Blackest Night issues of Green Lantern.

Dan DiDio then confirmed Andy was working on two DC stories, one featuring Batman, while the other features the DCU. These two projects were revealed as first, Andy, with his father Joe inking, drawing the first two issues of DC Universe Legacies, a 10 issue series chronicling the history of the DC Universe, the first of which came out in May 2010, the second to come in June. Alongside this, Andy contributed to Batman #700, teaming again with Grant Morrison to tell another tale of Damian Wayne as Batman in the future as part of the over-sized anniversary issue.

In 2011 he illustrated the DC miniseries "Flashpoint".

Teaching

Kubert, along with his brother Adam, teaches at his family business and alma mater, the Kubert School.

Bibliography

Comics work includes:

• Adam Strange
• Batman vs. Predator
• Ghost Rider
• X-Men
• The Incredible Hulk
• Ka-Zar
• Captain America
• Thor
• Ultimate X-Men
• Origin
• Marvel 1602
• Ultimate Iron Man
• Batman: Batman & Son
• Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

Notes

External links

• Andy Kubert at Kubert School