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Josef Rubinstein
The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe

Josef "Joe" Rubinstein (born 4 June 1958) is a

Art Adams his first professional work.[1]

Early life

Josef Rubinstein was born in

naturalized citizen in 1972.[2]

Career

Rubinstein started his artist career in the early 1970s as a teenager. Primarily working as an inker, his artwork has been published by major U.S. comics publishers including Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics. However, he first entered the industry as an office assistant to Neal Adams and Dick Giordano at Continuity Associates. While working this position, he learned how to ink from Giordano.[4]

At age 17, he met

photocopies of his pencils for the story, and afterward showed the results to editor Gerry Conway, who then assigned Rubinstein to inking the story.[4] Rubinstein is grateful that editors assigned him work with Nasser as partners, pairing them with each other on every assignment.[4]

In 1982, Rubinstein inked the acclaimed Wolverine limited series.

One of his most important works has been inking

The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe over a span of twenty years, for which he holds a Guinness World Record of inking more pencilers than any other inker.[citation needed
] Rubinstein recounted,

I did an inker's round table for a magazine called

San Diego con ... Mark said, "We're doing this encyclopedia, and we would like you to ink as many of the figures as you want." And I said, "I'll ink all of them," which turned into a gold mine and a godsend. [laughs] And he picked me because he knew that I would not make a homogenous look of it, and I honestly think I chameleon my style enough ...[4]

Among his extensive inking credits (which include more than 2,500 comic books), were work with

Green Arrow/Black Canary
 In 2016 he was inducted into the Joe Sinnott Inkwell Hall of Fame.

Awards

In 2016, Rubinstein won one of the two annual Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame Awards.[5] In his acceptance speech, he once again named Dick Giordano as his mentor.

References

  1. ^ Goulart, Ron. The Great Comic Book Artists, Volume 2, 1989, St. Martin's Press
  2. ^ a b Grand, Alex; Thompson, Jim (June 28, 2019). "JOSEF RUBINSTEIN INTERVIEW, COMIC BOOK INKER OF ALL BY ALEX GRAND & JIM THOMPSON". Comic Book Historians. Archived from the original on September 5, 2021. Retrieved September 5, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Rubinstein, Joe. "Art Collectibles From Legendary Marvel Comics Artist and Hall of Fame Inker Joe Rubinstein". JoeRubinstein.com. Archived from the original on October 20, 2019. Retrieved September 5, 2021.
  4. ^
    Fictioneer Books
    . pp. 40–51.
  5. ^ Inkwell Awards 2016 Winners

External links

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