14 Facts About Joe Jusko

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.

Joe Jusko was born in Manhattan's Lower East Side and grew up in New York City, the son of a construction worker and a homemaker.

Joe Jusko attended the High School of Art and Design, where his instructors included Bernard Krigstein.

Joe Jusko graduated in 1977 with the DC Comics Award of Excellence in Cartooning.

Joe Jusko has worked for almost every major comic-book publisher, producing hundreds of images for both covers and interiors.

Joe Jusko has 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.

Besides the 1992 Marvel Masterpieces trading card set, Joe Jusko painted the 1995 Art of Edgar Rice Burroughs trading cards.

Joe Jusko's 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.

Joe Jusko has produced storyboards for ad agencies, for such notable clients as the World Wrestling Federation.

Joe Jusko provided the promotional poster artwork for WrestleMania VII in 1991.

In 2016 Joe Jusko provided interior illustrations for the role-playing game Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of for Modiphius Entertainment.

Joe Jusko won the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Painter in 1992 and 1993, and the Wizard Fan Award for Favorite Painter in 1993 and 1994.

Joe Jusko's fully painted graphic novel Tomb Raider: The Greatest Treasure of All won a Certificate of Merit from the Society of Illustrators.

Comics for Ukraine: Sunflower Seeds to which Joe Jusko contributed a major painted work, won the 2024 Eisner Award for Best Anthology.