{"id":1164,"date":"2005-12-03T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2021-09-23T13:51:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T17:51:34","slug":"sgt-rock-jew-gangster-and-rocky-balboa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1164","title":{"rendered":"Sgt. Rock, Jew Gangster and Rocky Balboa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/z120305jewgangster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/z120305jewgangster.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kubertsworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Kubert<\/a><\/b> is a legend. And deservedly so. At <b>79<\/b>, <b>Joe<\/b> is still turning out not just great drawings but great comics!<\/div>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">His recently published graphic novel, <u> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1596878274\/ref=ase_craizabls\/103-2295982-0982212?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;n=283155&amp;tagActionCode=craizabls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jew Gangster<\/a><\/b><\/u>, is getting great reviews and soon we&#8217;ll see <b>Joe<\/b>&#8216;s return to one of his signature characters, <b>Sgt. Rock<\/b>, when the <b>six issue<\/b> mini-series, <b>Sgt. Rock: The Prophet <\/b>hits stands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">I had the good fortune to meet <b>Joe Kubert<\/b> in the early <b>80&#8217;s<\/b>. He was <b>Guest of Honor<\/b> at one of <b>Jim Ivey&#8217;s OrlandoCons<\/b>. <b>Joe<\/b> was there to pick up his <b>Ignatz award<\/b>. At the time<strong> Mr. Kubert<\/strong> was also promoting a series that he was to write and draw for <b>DC<\/b> called<b> The Redeemer<\/b>. Sad to say it never appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing that <b>Joe Kubert<\/b>\u00a0worked on that never appeared is, interestingly enough, a proposal for a <b>Rocky Balboa<\/b> newspaper strip. <strong>Mr. Kubert<\/strong> told me that he was approached to work on a <b>daily newspaper strip<\/b> and that he had in fact worked up <b>character sheets<\/b>, some <b>daily samples<\/b>, etc. Sadly the strip was never picked up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">You can imagine how excited I was to hear that <b>JOE KUBERT<\/b> had drawn <b>Rocky Balboa<\/b>. I asked <b>Mr. Kubert<\/b> if the art was available for sale, but it wasn&#8217;t. I then asked if I could buy Xeroxes but again, <b>Mr. Kubert <\/b>politely declined. Man, you just know that those pieces look great&#8230; maybe someday we&#8217;ll get the chance to see them in a treasury of his work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">At any rate, we can pick up <u><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1596878274\/ref=ase_craizabls\/103-2295982-0982212?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;amp;amp;n=283155&amp;tagActionCode=craizabls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jew Gangster<\/a><\/b><\/u> now and still have <b>Sgt. Rock: The Prophet<\/b> to look forward to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kubert is a legend. And deservedly so. At 79, Joe is still turning out not just great drawings but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28230,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/28230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}