Nick Justus - Enemy Ace

2015.10.03 Dewey's Comic City, Madison, NJ

Nick Justus was promoting his newest publication Mantasy, written by Jon Carroll, colors by Juanchoo..during his Nick Justus Does New Jersey Tour...

A graduate of the Kubert School, Nick had a fantastic portrait of Joe Kubert on his DeviantArt page. With this in mind I asked Nick to draw Enemy Ace - Hans von Hammer, created by Kubert and Robert Kanigher in 1965 first appearing in Our Army At War #151. I had the chance to meet Joe Kubert, but he was not doing sketches at the time only signing books. I would have loved to obtain an Enemy Ace sketch, but I was able to have him sign a collected edition of Enemy Ace stories...

I choose the Eddie Rickenbacker cover to compliment Enemy Ace, both World War I aces, representing different side of the battle, although one is fictional...

Currently a penciller/inker at Bluewater Comics, Nick has previously worked Devil's Due...

FCBD - A Pair of Jokers

Nick Justus

Gavin Smith

2001.05.07 Dewey's Comic City, Madison, NJ

During the morning hours of the FCBD - Dewey's had two artists who were in their 3rd year of Joe Kubert's School of Cartoon and Graphic Art (The Kubert School), Dover, NJ, the graduating class of 2011...

When Nick Justus started his sketch, he touched on the idea of turning Stan Laurel into the Joker...

I asked both artists to draw their version of the Joker on a Comedians FDC. The comedians stamps honored Abbot and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, Jack Denny, Bergen & McCarthy and Fanny Brice and were all drawn by famed caricaturist Hirschfeld.

Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) was well known for his line drawings of celebrities, musicians, movie stars and Broadway performers...I remember getting the Sunday paper to look for the comics, followed by the entertainment section to see fi there was a Hirschfeld drawing accompanying the reviews of the newest movie or Broadway play...I always had to try to find the Nina's hidden within...