Steve Leialoha

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Steve Leialoha
Born (1952-01-27)January 27, 1952 (61 years old)
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.

Biography

Cover for Spider-Woman #8 (November 1978). Art by Carmine Infantino and Steve Leialoha.

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. 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.[6][7]

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.[8]

Bibliography

Claypool Comics

  • Soulsearchers and Company #4-5, 7-8, 10-13, 15-22, 25-26, 28-46, 48-50 (1993-2001)

Comico

Dark Horse Comics

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

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.[9]
  • 2005: Won Eisner Award for "Best Serialized Story", for Fables #19–27: "March of the Wooden Soldiers" with Willingham and Mark Buckingham.[10]
  • 2006: Won Eisner Award for "Best Serialized Story", for Fables #36–38, 40–41: "Return to the Homelands" with Willingham and Buckingham.[11]
  • 2007: Won Eisner Award for "Best Artist/Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team", for Fables with Buckingham.[7]

References

  1. Miller, John Jackson (June 10, 2005). "Comics Industry Birthdays". Comics Buyer's Guide. Archived from the original on October 29, 2010. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Steve Leialoha". Lambiek Comiclopedia. 2007. Archived from the original on October 13, 2012. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Steve Leialoha at the Grand Comics Database
  4. Sanderson, Peter; Gilbert, Laura, ed. (2008). "1970s". Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. Dorling Kindersley. p. 180. ISBN 978-0756641238. 
  5. 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."
  6. Irvine, Alex (2008), "Fables", in Dougall, Alastair, The Vertigo Encyclopedia, Dorling Kindersley, pp. 72–81, ISBN 0-7566-4122-5, OCLC 213309015 
  7. 7.0 7.1 "2007 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on August 24, 2012. 
  8. Bellomo, Mark (2009). The Ultimate Guide to G.I. Joe 1982-1994: Identification and Price Guide. Krause Publications. p. 34. ISBN 978-0896899223. 
  9. "2003 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on July 25, 2012. 
  10. "2005 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on July 25, 2012. 
  11. "2006 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on August 25, 2012. 

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