Earn Millions As A 3D Cartoonist!

From Blue Beetle to Catman, Joe Kubert is one of the most recognized artists of the Golden Age. He along with cartoonist Norman Maurer set up the renowned Joe Kubert School for young wannabe comic book artists. One of their earliest attempts at advertising was a comics ad that ran in 1953 and tried to horn in on the current trend of 3D comic books that had just come out. 3D comics were seen the same way as 3D movies that could be read with a special pair of glasses that usually came free with each issue, even though there weren't too many actual titles done in 3D. The advertisement would have been acceptable enough if it were just geared towards catching the eye of generic comic artists, but the fact that they put an emphasis on creating 3D comics makes it look really suspicious. The artwork used for 3D comics is roughly the same as regular ones, so there wasn't really any special reason to highlight 3D art. The ad claims to have received hundreds of letters on how to be a 3D comic artist when the real business was just a flash in the pan that had a small boom at the time. This would be the equivalent to someone getting a career as a hologram card artist in the collector's boom of the 90s. For a quick buck, getting just tips and pointers from comic professionals like the Kubert clan isn't a bad deal, although if you had to pay extra for learning 3D art tricks seems like a waste of money, even with hot titles like Mighty Mouse. Norman Maurer was the one who pioneered the 3D comics, along with working with The Three Stooges and Hanna-Barbera, so he was very enterprising, but reducing the Kubert School to dedicate a huge portion of their curriculum to this niche market wasn't exactly a good business strategy. Makes you feel sorry for any dope who might have gone through the whole 3D art training and find out that the whole fad had died out less than a year later. Pick your art careers carefully, otherwise you'll be sitting on the side of a highway holding a sign that says, "Will Draw Comic Sketch Covers For Food".