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Joe Kubert, a titan among comic-book artists whose work stretched from the Golden Age of the superhero to the gritty realism of the graphic novel, died on Sunday in Morristown, N.J. He was 85. The cause was multiple myeloma, his son Adam said. Mr. Kubert, who first plied his trade as a teenager in the 1930s and continued drawing in the hospital during his final illness, was among the last of the generation of comic-book illustrators whose work helped define the genre in the years before World War II. “He’s the longest-lived continuously important contributor to the field,” Paul Levitz,...

Sgt. Rock and Easy Company are saluting comic book legend Joe Kubert, who passed away today at the age of 85.

I found this interesting image at the U.S. Army Logistics Command's PS Magazine site today. If you're an Army veteran (or an Army brat!) you know PS -- it's the world's only monthly comics magazine dedicated to the maintenance and upkeep of military vehicles and equipment in the field. Click over to the official PS Magazine website and note the locale of the flea-bitten GI depicted in Joe Kubert's cover for the January issue: the "field" is depicted as a sandy desert, where sunscreen and sand-flea repellent are necessary and from where soldiers are encouraged to write home. Sound like...