Its alumni include Amanda Conner, Lee Weeks, Andy Price, Ed Piskor, and Alex Maleev, as well as many other comics pencilers and inkers.

[2][3] The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art was founded in September 1976 by cartoonist Joe Kubert and his wife Muriel in the old Baker mansion on 45 Lehigh Street in Dover; then, from 1984 onwards, Dover's former high school, whose tall windows offered optimal lighting.

Approved by the New Jersey Department of Education, the Kubert School advertised itself to veterans and "non-resident alien" students.

)[11] In the fall of 2019, former student Anthony Marques purchased the school with $2.4 million in combined 7(a) term and 7(a) Express loans through TD Bank's Small Business Administration (SBA) Lending Group.

A 2003 article in The Comics Journal criticized the school for turning out "hack" artists with no individual character.