Salon del Comic de Granada Celebrates Joe Kubert

Comics Culture — March 12, 2010 at 18:24 Share

The fifteenth annual comics festival in Granada Spain opens this weekend, celebrating Joe Kubert for his artistic and educational achievements. On hand are Kubert School graduates Tom Raney, Morry Hollowell and your humble reporter, Rick Veitch, along with dozens of guests and thousands of attendees.

The festivities launched yesterday with Kubert speaking to a standing room only audience of cartooning students at the vast Alonso Cano art school in Granada. Kubert shared stories from his seventy year career in comics (he started work at age twelve!) and discussed his experiences as founder, with his wife Muriel Kubert, of the Kubert School Of Cartoon And Graphic Art in Dover New Jersey. The school has been in existence since 1976.

Kubert, at 83, still looks like he could wrestle a polecat and pin it two times out of three. Even with his duties at the school, he’s most devoted to his writing and drawing and, always prolific, has a number of new projects in the pipeline, including the soon to be released Viet-Nam war memoir, DONG XOAI.

What follows is a picture parade of the guests of the festival enjoying the lovely scenery, food, friends and night life of Granada. Click to see larger versions.

That’s me filling in the same Alonso Carno cartooning class on what Kubert School was like in the mid 1970′s, studying alongside Steve Bissette, John Totleben, Tim Truman, Tom Mandrake, Jan Duursema and a host of other graduates.

Kubies Morry Hollowell and Tom Raney soak up the sun with Dave Elliot.

Dave decides to show the locals how to dance the flamenco.

Vertigo editor Pornsak Pichetshote checking portfolios.

Papercutz Jim Salicrup makes new friends.

Joe Kubert sketching for the fans.

More tomorrow!

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