Steve Erwin

Stephen Erwin (January 16, 1960 – October 25, 2023) was an American comics artist best known as the co-creator of Checkmate! and Gunfire for DC Comics.

Biography

Steve Erwin was born on January 16, 1960.[1] He studied commercial art at Oklahoma State University-Okmulgee. He credited Neal Adams' Batman stories and Gene Colan's and Tom Palmer's work on Daredevil as having "won my heart in junior high to aspiring (dreaming) to be a comic book artist."[2] Erwin's first published comic book work appeared in Grimjack #18 (January 1986),[3] published by First Comics. During the 1980s and 1990s, he worked primarily for DC Comics, his first story for that publisher appearing in The Vigilante #48 (December 1987).[3] After that title's cancellation, Erwin co-created the title Checkmate! with writer Paul Kupperberg.[4] In August 1991, Erwin and Marv Wolfman launched the Deathstroke the Terminator title,[5] a series that Erwin would draw from 1991 to 1994.[3] The Gunfire character was created by Len Wein and Erwin in Deathstroke the Terminator Annual #3 (October 1993).[6] Erwin drew the comics adaptation of Batman Returns as well as Star Trek: The Next Generation Shadowheart, the graphic novel adaptation of The Ashes of Eden, and the Mike Danger series published by Tekno Comix.[3]

In 2007, Erwin was inducted into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, located in the Toy and Action Figure Museum.[7]

Erwin died on October 25, 2023, at the age of 63.[8]

Bibliography

External links

• Steve Erwin at the Lambiek Comiclopedia
• Steve Erwin at Mike's Amazing World of Comics