Joe Shuster

About

Artist for DC Comics who collaborated with author Jerry Siegel on the creation of the Superman character.

Before Fame

He was born in Toronto, where he held a childhood job as a newspaper boy. When he was around nine years old, he moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio.

Trivia

He suffered from near-blindness, a condition that forced him to end his career as a comic artist in the 1970s.

Family Life

His Jewish parents immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands and the Ukraine.

Associated With

He became a member of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992.