Andy Kubert
After attending and graduating from his fathers school, The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, Andy Kubert began his career at DC Comics illustrating the acclaimed Adam Strange mini series then moved onto the highly successful Batman versus Predator series. He then went on to draw Marvel Comics’ popular X-Men title, which was consistently a sales juggernaut and remained their top-selling comic during his six-year run. Also at Marvel, Andy drew the original Wolverine: Origin and Marvel 1602 miniseries, for which he collaborated with New York Timesbestselling author Neil Gaiman. He also had pencilling stints on Captain America, Thor and Ka-Zar.
For DC, Kubert has illustrated the bestselling Batman and Son (co-creating Bruce Waynes` son, Damian, with writer Grant Morrison), Flashpoint (with Geoff Johns), Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?(again with author Neil Gaiman), and Dark Knight III: The Master Race(with the legendary Frank Miller, along with writer Brian Azzarello and inker Klaus Janson) in addition to a six-issue Superman series,Superman: Up in the Sky, with multiple Eisner Award-winning writer Tom King.
Most recently, Andy has collaborated with writer Tom Taylor on another Batman project entitled “Batman: The Detective”.
Rev. Dave Johnson
Dave Johnson is a 30+ year veteran of the comic book and animation industry. Series artist on Superman, Red Son, Superpatriot, and Chain Gang War.
He’s an award winning cover artist for DC, Marvel, Image, Darkhorse, and many more.
David Mack
David Mack is a writer, artist, director, designer- Mack earned an Emmy Award nomination for the Jessica Jones Netflix opening titles, New York Times Best Selling Author & Artist of KABUKI, writer of MARVEL’s Daredevil, Creator of ECHO (now making her screen debut in the new MARVEL Hawkeye series & starring in her own ECHO tv series on Disney+).
Cover artist of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, & Norse Mythology, Jessica Jones, & Fight Club 2 by Chuck Palahniuk. Artist on Jessica Jones opening titles & Captain America The Winter Soldier film titles & Cultural Ambassador for the US State Dept.
Mack created the character ECHO who is making her screen debut in the new Marvel Hawkeye series & starring in her own ECHO tv series.
Mack has signed on to direct the HBO Max tv series of COVER, adapted from the graphic novel which is inspired by his work overseas for the US State Dept. COVER was nominated for three Eisner Awards, Best Graphic Novel, Best Cover Artist, Best Painter.
In 2018 Mack was honored with the prestigious Inkpot Award for his Achievements in Comicbook Art.
Mark Texeira
Classically trained as a painter, Mark Texdira broke into the comics field in the early 1980s.
When painting, Texeira begins with a penciled layout on loose paper, and following approval of the layout, will acquire reference photos or hire models to pose for him, in order to “capture the feeling of the sketch as closely as possible.” Texeira will then apply a few layers of gesso to a Masonite board, and then carefully lay the drawing out in tight pencil, noting subtleties of skin tone and sharpening the image throughout the process. He will then create the underpainting, in which he applies sepias, or a mix of browns, blacks and whites. Any final changes to the painting, such as aspects of a character’s facial expression, are made during this stage. He then carefully and thinly applies acrylic paint to achieve the final colors, lightly so as to not lose the underpainting.
Comics titles Texeira has contributed to include Masters Of The Universe (1981), DC Power Lords, Jonah Hex and its spinoff Hex (1985–1986), Psi-Force (1986–1987), The Punisher War Journal (1990), Ghost Rider vol. 3 (1990–1992, 1997–1998), and vol. 5, Wolverine vol. 2 (1993), Sabretooth (1993), Spider-Man: Legacy of Evil (1996), Black Panther vol. 3 (1998), Moon Knight vol. 4 (1999), Vampirella, Cyclops (2001), Hercules vol. 4 (2005) and Wolverine vol. 3 (2005).
