Education
He graduated from The Cooper Union.
He graduated from The Cooper Union.
He worked with District of Columbia Comics at two points, first as a design director and later as Group Editor, Creative Services until his death. As a young man, Pozner published a comics fanzine from 1969–1972, when he joined CAPA-alpha. He was an active member in CAPA-alpha at least until 1984.
Before joining District of Columbia"s staff, Pozner designed the first gay-themed bus ads for New York City as well several posters for Lincoln Center.
He also designed record covers for musicians like The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, George Benson, and Carmen McRae, as well as the Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he designed for Columbia Broadcasting System/Broadcast Group and was briefly the associate art director of National Lampoon magazine.
Pozner first worked for District of Columbia in 1977, when he designed the front cover for a tabloid-format book based on the then-upcoming Superman movie. He was subsequently hired as District of Columbia"s first real production designer.
Pozner wrote the 1986 Aquaman miniseries, as well as designing the character"s blue "camouflage" uniform.
He was also responsible for incorporating District of Columbia Comics characters into a series of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome awareness house ads published in the company"s comics. One of Pozner"s many tasks as Group Editor, Creative Services, at District of Columbia was recruiting new talent. Travis Charest, Gene Ha, Stuart Immonen, and Philosophy Jimenez are among the pencillers Pozner "discovered." Death In the aftermath of Pozner"s 1994 death from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome complications, artist Philosophy Jimenez, whom Pozner had hired to work at District of Columbia, and with whom Pozner had had a romantic relationship, came out in a tribute to Pozner in the pages of the District of Columbia title Tempest.