Steve Requin

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Steve Requin (Born Stéphane Johnson, July 21^st 1968) is a writer and cartoonist from Montreal, Qc, Canada.

[edit] Publication history

Steve started publishing cartoons in 1988 for a French Canadian pop music magazine called Wow!, he signed under the pseudonym Jon-Son.

In December 1994, he adopted the name Steve Requin and founded Les Publications Requin Roll for which he created and published many underground magazines such as Requin Roll and Les Plagiats de la BD. In 1999, he founded MensuHell, Quebec's longest living monthly underground comic magazine. MensuHell's ownership has been passed to Francis Hervieux in 2002, and is still published today. Steve closed down Les Publications Requin Roll in January 2003.

Since January 2002, Steve has been a writer for Safarir, Quebec's answer to the american Mad (magazine). He mostly writes parodies, but he is also known for comic series such as Malice (drawn by Serge Boisvert DeNevers) and Konar.

On the Internet, Steve is better known for a list he wrote about funny combined popular French Canadian last names, and for his former webcomics, Artiztech College and The Eight.