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Carmine Infantino Illustrator & Author

Joe Kubert has worked in the comic book and comic strips field for over sixty years, since the age of 11, and is considered to be an international master of the art form. Renowned for his work on Hawkman, Tor, Sgt. Rock, Enemy Ace, Tales of the Green Berets, Firehair, and Tarzan, Kubert is also a top art instructor, having founded the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover, NJ over 20 years ago. Kubert is the author of the socially relevant and critically acclaimed graphic novel, Fax from Sarajevo as well as the instructional art tome, Superheroes: Joe Kubert's Wonderful World of Comics. Carmine Infantino will always be remembered as the personification of DC Comics' Silver Age. Infantino resurrected a dying comics industry in 1956, with his co-creation, the Flash and remains the best remembered Flash artist of all-time. Infantino proved an all-time great sci-fi artist with his elegant, Adam Strange, the only sci-fi comic to rival the sales of Star Wars, which Infantino also illustrated. In 1964, he with editor Julius Schwartz, saved Batman comics from cancellation with the "New Look," redesigned the Batmobile and created Batgirl. All of which inspired the Batman TV-show. In 1971, Infantino became Publisher and later, President of DC Comics. His corporate moves included development of the Superman films I and II starring Christopher Reeve.