Steve Leialoha
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| Born | January 27, 1952 |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Penciller, Inker |
Steve Leialoha (born January 27, 1952)[1] is an American comic book artist whose work first came to prominence in the 1970s. He has worked primarily as an inker, though occasionally as a penciller, for several publishers, including Marvel Comics and later DC Comics.
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Biography
Leialoha's professional career began in 1975 with the early independent comic book Star*Reach,[2] drawing the five-page story "Wooden Ships on the Water", adapted by writer Mike Friedrich from the song by Crosby, Stills, and Kantner, in issue #3 (Sept. 1975).[3] He continued to contribute to Star*Reach and the same publisher's Quack for four years.
Leialoha freelanced as a regular contributor to Marvel from 1976 to 1988,[2] working on such series as Warlock, Star Wars,[4] Spider-Woman, the Spider-Man title Marvel Team-Up, the Firestar limited series, New Mutants and Howard the Duck.[3] He and writer J. M. DeMatteis co-created "Greenberg the Vampire" in Bizarre Adventures #29 (Dec. 1981).[5]
In the 1990s, Leialoha began working at DC on Batman and other characters; at Harris Comics on Vampirella; and at Claypool Comics on Soulsearchers and Company. He inked part of the World's End story arc in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series.[6][7] The following decade, he became the regular inker on most of the issues (through 2013) of the DC/Vertigo series Fables, penciled by Mark Buckingham, for which they won the Eisner Award for "Best Penciller/Inker Team" in 2007.[8][9]
He lives in San Francisco with his partner, comics artist Trina Robbins.
Writer Larry Hama named G.I. Joe character Edward Leialoha (code name Torpedo) after Steve Leialoha.[10]
Bibliography
Claypool Comics
Comico
Dark Horse Comics
DC Comics
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Marvel Comics
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Awards
- 2003: Won Eisner Award for "Best New Series" and "Best Serialized Story" for Fables #1-5: "Legends in Exile" with Bill Willingham and Lan Medina.[11]
- 2005: Won Eisner Award for "Best Serialized Story", for Fables #19–27: "March of the Wooden Soldiers" with Willingham and Mark Buckingham.[12]
- 2006: Won Eisner Award for "Best Serialized Story", for Fables #36–38, 40–41: "Return to the Homelands" with Willingham and Buckingham.[13]
- 2007: Won Eisner Award for "Best Artist/Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team", for Fables with Buckingham.[9]
References
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- ↑ DeFalco, Tom "1980s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 202: "Writer J. M. DeMatteis and artist Steve Leialoha eplored a new take on the vampire myth with Greenberg."
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External links
- Steve Leialoha at Mike's Amazing World of Comics
- Steve Leialoha at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
