Steve Leialoha

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Steve Leialoha
Born	27 January 1952
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Penciller, Inker

Steve Leialoha (born 27 January 1952) 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.

Leialoha's professional career began in 1975 with the early independent comic book Star*Reach, 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). 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, working on such series as Warlock, Star Wars, Spider-Woman, the Spider-Man title Marvel Team-Up, the Firestar limited series, New Mutants and Howard the Duck. 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. The following decade, he became the regular inker on more than 50 issues (through mid-2006) of the DC/Vertigo series Fables, penciled by Mark Buckingham.

He lives in San Francisco with his partner, comics artist Trina Robbins.

[edit] Selected works

• New Mutants vol. 1 (as penciller) #32-34