Upper Deck announced a new Marvel Masterpiece series to go along with their 25th anniversary. Jusko produced the collection, The Art of Joe Jusko (Desperado Publishing, 2009), as well as a graphic novel adaptation of Steve Niles's supernatural detective Cal MacDonald. His work is featured in the 1996 card set Fleer's Ultra X-Men Wolverine Cards, 2016 Marvel Masterpieces, as well as Conan the Barbarian and Vampirella trading card sets. Jusko has also produced covers and interior art for many other comics companies and characters, including DC Comics, Crusade Comics, Innovation Comics, Harris Comics, Wildstorm Comics, Top Cow Productions, and Byron Preiss Visual Publications.īesides the 1992 Marvel Masterpieces trading card set, Jusko painted the 1995 Art of Edgar Rice Burroughs trading cards.

In addition to his long stint as one of the main cover artists for The Savage Sword of Conan, Jusko has painted every major Marvel Comics character, including the Hulk and the Punisher. Jusko has worked for almost every major comic-book publisher, producing hundreds of images for both covers and interiors.

Forgoing college, Jusko went straight into commercial illustration. He graduated in 1977 with the DC Comics Award of Excellence in Cartooning.Īfter graduating, Jusko worked as an assistant for five months for Howard Chaykin, which led to Jusko selling his first cover for Heavy Metal magazine at the age of 18. Jusko painted the 1992 Marvel Masterpieces trading cards, the popularity of which has been credited with initiating the painted trading card boom of the 1990s.īorn in Manhattan's Lower East Side and growing up in New York City, the son of a construction worker and a homemaker, Jusko attended the High School of Art and Design, where his instructors included Bernard Krigstein.

Joe Jusko is an American artist known for his realistic, highly detailed painted fantasy, pin-up, and cover illustrations, mainly in the comic book industry.

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