Another Power Girl Sketch Card by Joe Rubinstein

I showed a Power Girl sketch by Joe Rubinstein last year, and I've since added another one to my collection.

This is a less angry Power Girl, with shorter hair than the one I showed before. Both sketches are from Cryptozoic's DC Comics: The Women of Legend trading card set. Rubinstein has a Facebook page, but other than that I can't find much online presence for him. It is interesting how some artists are on every social media platform, and others are almost invisible online. Maybe part of it is that in comics he is primarily known as an inker, and he started doing sketch cards as a way to stretch his skills and range as an artist. Here's a good interview where he talks about that. I'm really happy with both cards I've picked up featuring his work, and hopefully I'll find more of it for my collection in the future.

Sketch Card Week: Power Girl by Josef (Joe) Rubinstein

This is the last post for Sketch Card Week, which went for an extra day because I took a break in the middle of it. I actually just received a couple mailers full of sketch cards that would allow me to extend this event by another week, but I've got a bunch of non-sketch stuff in my queue and I'll probably just post these new sketches later.

This sketch is another Power Girl sketch from Cryptozoic's DC Comics: The Women of Legend product. It was done by Josef (Joe) Rubinstein. This appears to be an older version of Power Girl, which kind of makes sense because Rubinstein came into comics in the 1970's, and his work has the look of the comic art of that era. There are probably people out there who could name his influences and artistic lineage, but I am not one of those people. I mostly can categorize the art styles as recent, old, and older with moderate accuracy. Anyhow, this is kind of a cool sketch that shows Power Girl in a different light than the usual fare. I thought it was pretty neat, and I grabbed it up for my collection.

This post will barely sneak in before midnight tonight. I was in the middle of writing the draft when we decided to go walk around town with our kids and catch Pokemon on the Pokemon Go app. It was pretty fun, and there were a lot of families, couples, individuals, and groups of friends walking around doing the same thing. Everyone was friendly and smiling, and people from all sorts of social groups were bonding over something they now have in common. Pretty cool stuff.