Joe Kubert : nouveaux projets!

[phil c.]

je ne crois pas avoir vu cette news ici
le géant Kubert a fini sa mini série Tor
Comme il n'a que 82 ans, il a plein de projets, dont :

The main project taking up Kubert's time now is a fictional retelling of the battle of Dong Xoai in June 1965, as the Viet Cong guerrillas launched their first large-scale attack against South Vietnamese forces. A group of U.S. special forces soldiers had been training the South Vietnamese army¾this was before the United States officially entered the conflict¾and they were caught in the firefight, with 35 U.S. soldiers being killed in the Viet Cong's rout.
Kubert started on the project late last year after a chance encounter with a former Army corporal who served as a captain at Dong Xoai. They talked at length about the battle, and it piqued the interest of Kubert, who gained much of his recognition through his famed Sgt. Rock war comics.
"It's something that I put everything aside for, because the story hit me really hard," Kubert said. "The connection that hit me about the story was not the battle, but how 12 men who had served together¾and in fact the survivors are still connected. It was a band of guys who were involved at the very beginning who depended so much on one another. It's like Band of Brothers."
DC will publish the graphic novel, which is tentatively titled Dong Xoai 1965, and is planned at about 225 pages. Kubert hopes to complete it around the end of the year. He's relying heavily on writings, photographs and other historic materials supplied by the former corporal to make the story as accurate as possible. "It's very important in doing a story like this that the side arms, the lay outs, everything has to be right," he said.
And after that on Kubert's schedule is an all-ages anthology series for DC that grew out of his dislike for the harsh elements of many contemporary comics. "A lot of the comic books I've seen, what's happened in the industry is the subject matter has gravitated to a more specific and older reader," he said. "I don't think you have to write down or draw down [to the audience], but the subject matter could be done so it could touch any number of levels. I don't think that's happening today."
The anthology series, which will be finished in about a year, will be 40-page issues and will feature Hawkman and Enemy Ace stories from Kubert, as well as stories from his sons, Andy and Adam. On the spot, he also mused that he'd like to try his hand at a Western, and he wants to keep learning more about computer coloring.

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