


Books in series

Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan
the Jesse Marsh Years 1
2009

Tarzan Archives the Jesse Marsh Years 4
2009

Tarzan Archives
2010

Tarzan
The Joe Kubert Years, Vol. 1
2005

Tarzan the Untamed
1999

Tarzan
Le Monstre
1998
Authors

Joe Kubert was a Jewish-American comic book artist who went on to found the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman. His sons, Andy Kubert and Adam Kubert, have themselves become successful comic-book artists. Kubert's other creations include the comic books Tor, Son of Sinbad, and Viking Prince, and, with writer Robin Moore, the comic strip Tales of the Green Beret. Kubert was inducted into the Harvey Awards' Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1997, and Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1998.

Gaylord McIlvaine Du Bois (as it appears on his baptism certificate), or DuBois (He signed it both ways: as two words, both capitalized; and as one word with a capital "B") (August 24, 1899 Winthrop, Massachusetts – October 20, 1993 Orange City, Florida) In his lifetime he wrote well over 3000 comic book stories and comic strips as well as Big Little Books and juvenile adventure novels. An avid outdoorsman, Du Bois had a real affinity for writing stories with natural settings. His forte was in Westerns, as well as jungle comics and animal reality comics. He created many original second features for Western Publishing (e.g., "Captain Venture: Beneath the Sea", "Leopard Girl", "Two Against the Jungle", etc.), but most of his work for the company was in writing stories with licensed characters. Perhaps most notably, Gaylord Du Bois wrote Tarzan for Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics from 1946 until 1971.

Lovern was born in the small town of Arborg, Manitoba in 1954. His father was a partner in a small trucking company and his mother waited and managed for the local Canadian Legion. The first house his family owned was a converted chicken coop without running water and equipped with an outhouse. Lovern graduated from Arborg Collegiate in 1972 and enrolled at Red River Community College, where he attended the first year of their Advertising Art course. The following year, he entered the work force as a printer’s assistant at Bulman Brothers Printing. After several years as a printer he quit his job and enrolled in the Fine Arts program at the University of Manitoba in 1982. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art, Honours and started his first work in the comic book industry as George Freeman’s assistant. Lovern eventually won representation by Star Reach Agency and found colour work at 1st Comics on the Elric series. Shortly after he completed a try out book at DC Comics. Lovern was engaged by DC to develop a look and colour for the book John Constantine: Hellblazer, which was to become a flagship title for the Vertigo imprint. Lovern, with the aid of his cousin Christopher Chuckry developed a computer colouring method with the use of Photoshop and started a company called Digital Chameleon. Their method redefined production in the entire comic book industry and graphic field. While residing over Digital Chameleon as creative director Lovern had his first comic book story published. He wrote and coloured the short story, “So This Is Christmas”, which was illustrated by Tim Sale for the benefit book Within Our Reach” published by Marvel and Star Reach. Lovern went on to write Agents of Law for Dark Horse Comics and the Victorian for Penny Farthing Press. In 1997 he wrote, “Tarzan: Le Monstre” for Dark Horse Comics and was nominated as best writer based on the six issues those stories spanned. Since then Lovern has written several other comic books and contributed short prose pieces to several anthologies. In 2011 Lovern signed a deal with Renegade Arts Entertainment to colour the graphic novel, “The Loxleys & the War of 1812.” Shortly after that he signed the deal with that publishers to put his creator owned series, “Shame” into print. Shame was followed by the graphic novel, “Underworld” and this year the “Shame” hardcover collection will be released. Lovern is presently working on “Necromantic” a new creator owned series from Renegade Arts Entertainment.