Jim Zub

Jim Zubkavich, known professionally as Jim Zub, is a Canadian comic book writer, artist, and art instructor best known for creating comics ''Skullkickers'' (2010), '' Wayward'' (2014), ''and Glitterbomb'' (2016) for Image Comics, and writing on the series '' Thunderbolts'' (2016), ''Uncanny Avengers'' (2017)'','' ''Avengers: No Surrender'' (2018), and ''Champions'' (2018) for Marvel Comics. As well as writing and creating comics, Zub is the former program co-ordinator and a current art professor at Toronto's Seneca College. He lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife, Stacy King.

Early life

Jim Zub is Canadian. He grew up watching Spider-Man cartoons as a kid, and soon after fell in love with comics. He has stated that Stan Lee was a big influence on him, specifically by giving his superheroes flaws.

Career

Jim Zub created his first comic, ''Makeshift Miracle'', in 2001, followed by a nine-year stint at UDON Entertainment as a colorist, illustrator, project manager, writer and editor where he wrote various ''Street Fighter'' comic books.

In 2010, Zub launched ''Skullkickers'' at Image Comics. A creator-owned sword & sorcery action-comedy, ''Skullkickers'' ran for thirty-three issues completing six volumes. The series came to an end in 2015.

In 2013, Zub wrote ''Samurai Jack'' comics for IDW and Cartoon Network. Initially intended as one five-issue arc, the comic ran twenty issues, ending in 2015.

In 2014, Zub launched ''Wayward'' at Image Comics with art by co-creator Steven Cummings. His first creator-owned book since ''Skullkickers'', ''Wayward'' is described as ''Buffy The Vampire Slayer'' set in Japan." A teen coming-of-age story injected with Japanese myth and the supernatural. The series spanned 30 issues and six trade paperback volumes before coming to an end on October 31, 2018.

Zub and IDW partnered up for ''Dungeons & Dragons: Legends of Baldur’s Gate'' #1-5 in 2014, followed up by ''Dungeons & Dragons: Shadows of the Vampire'' #1-5 in 2016, ''Dungeons & Dragons: Frost Giant’s Fury'' #1-5 in 2017, and ''Dungeons & Dragons: Evil At Baldur’s Gate'' #1-5 in 2018.

In 2016, Zub and French-Canadian artist Djibril Morissette-Phan launched ''Glitterbomb'' at Image Comics, a four-part mini-series about a struggling actress trying to regain fame in a sexist, abusive industry. A second four-part mini-series, ''Glitterbomb: The Fame Game'', launched in 2017.

Zub started writing for Marvel in 2016 with ''Thunderbolts'', followed by ''Uncanny Avengers'' in 2017. He created a new hero, villains, and new backstories in the 16-part ''Avengers: No Surrender'' in 2018, as well as taking over ''Champions'' with #19, and creating a new Canadian Hero, Snowguard. Also in 2018, Zub wrote the four-part ''Wolverine'' miniseries, ''Mystery in Madripoor''.

In August of 2018, Zub teamed up with writer Patrick Rothfuss and artist Troy Little to write a ''Dungeons & Dragons/ Rick & Morty'' crossover mini-series, titled '' Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons'' #1-4. Zub co-wrote, with Sarah Stern and with art by Little, '' Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons: Chapter II: Painscape;'' the follow-up series was published from September to December 2019. The ''Rick and Morty vs Dungeons and Dragons Deluxe Edition'', by Rothfuss, Zub, and Little, was nominated for the 2022 "Best Graphic Album—Reprint" Eisner Award.

In late 2018, it was announced that Zub, along with writers Mark Waid and Al Ewing, would reunite for ''Avengers: No Road Home'', being called a "spiritual successor" to their previous collaboration, ''Avengers: No Surrender.''" Art will be done by Paco Medina and Sean Izaakse. The series began in February 2019.

Personal life

Zub and his wife, Stacy King live in Toronto. Stacy King was a marketing manager at UDON Entertainment as of 2015. And as well as writing comics, Zub is also a professor at Toronto's Seneca College and teaches classes in layout and design, character animation and animation history.

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

IDW

*''Samurai Jack'' #1-20 collected as:
** ''Volume 1'' (collects #1-4, TPB, 120 pages, 2014, )
** ''Volume 2'' (collects #5-10, TPB, 120 pages, 2014, )
** ''Volume 3'' (collects #11-15, TPB, 120 pages, 2015, )
** ''Volume 4'' (collects #16-20, TPB, 120 pages, 2015, )
*'' Dungeons & Dragons: Legends of Baldur’s Gate'' #1-5 collected as:
** ''Volume 1'' (collects #1-4, TPB, 124 pages, 2015, )
*'' Dungeons & Dragons: Shadows of the Vampire'' #1-5 collected as:
** ''Volume 1'' (collects #1-4, TPB, 120 pages, 2016, )
*'' Dungeons & Dragons: Frost Giant’s Fury'' #1-5 collected as:
** ''Volume 1'' (collects #1-4, TPB, 128 pages, 2017, )
*'' Dungeons & Dragons: Evil At Baldur’s Gate'' #1-5 collected as:
** ''Volume 1'' (collects #1-4, TPB, 120 pages, 2018, )
*'' Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons'' #1-4 collected as:
** ''Volume 1'' (collects #1-4, TPB, 120 pages, 2019, )

Image

*''Skullkickers'' #1-34 collected as:
** ''Volume 1'' (collects #1-5, TPB, 144 pages, 2011, )
** ''Volume 2'' (collects #6-11, TPB, 144 pages, 2011, )
** ''Volume 3'' (collects #12-17, TPB, 144 pages, 2012, )
** ''Volume 4'' (collects #18-23, TPB, 160 pages, 2013, )
** ''Volume 5'' (collects #24-29, TPB, 144 pages, 2014, )
** ''Volume 6'' (collects #30-33 & #100, TPB, 144 pages, 2015, )
*'' Wayward'' #1-30 collected as:
** ''Volume 1'' (collects #1-5, TPB, 144 pages, 2015, )
** ''Volume 2'' (collects #6-10, TPB, 136 pages, 2015, )
** ''Volume 3'' (collects #11-15, TPB, 128 pages, 2016, )
** ''Volume 4'' (collects #16-20, TPB, 136 pages, 2017, )
** ''Volume 5'' (collects #21-25, TPB, 136 pages, 2018, )
** ''Volume 6'' (collects #26-30, TPB, 152 pages, 2018, )
* ''Glitterbomb'' #1-4 collected as:
** ''Volume 1'' (collects #1-4, TPB, 136 pages, 2017, )
* ''Glitterbomb: The Fame Game'' #1-4 collected as:
** ''Volume 1'' (collects #1-4, TPB, 120 pages, 2018, )

Marvel

*'' Thunderbolts'' (2016-2017) #1-12 collected as:
** ''Volume 1'' (collects #1-6, TPB, 144 pages, 2017, )
** ''Volume 2'' (collects #7-12, TPB, 144 pages, 2017, )
*''Uncanny Avengers'' #26-30 collected as:
** ''Volume 5'' (collects #26-30, TPB, 112 pages, 2018, )
*''Avengers'' #675-690 collected as:
** ''Avengers: No Surrender'' (collects #675-690, TPB, 352 pages, 2018, )
*''Champions'' Vol. 2 (2016-2019) #19-27, Vol. 3 (2019) #1-10 collected as:
** ''Champions Volume 4: Northern Lights'' (collects #19-21 and Infinity Countdown: Champions #1-2, TPB, 112 pages, 2018, )
** ''Champions Volume 5: Weird War One'' (collects #22-27, TPB, 176 pages, 2019, )
** ''Champions by Jim Zub Volume 1: Beat the Devil'' (collects #1-5, TPB, 136 Pages, 2019, )
** ''Champions by Jim Zub Volume 2: Give and Take'' (collects #7-10, TPB, 112 Pages, 2019, )

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