ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MEET THE AUTHOR

Steve Myers

When he's not turning clicks into clients or inventing a new Keyword Research Tool in his position as Director of Search Engine Optimization, Steve Myers of New Castle, DE, is writing and illustrating comics.

An award-winning cartoonist and graphic designer, Steve got his start in 1995 at the University of Delaware making political cartoons and a twice-weekly comic strip for the school paper The Review. At that time he also had an internship in the production department with Valiant Comics.

Since then he's worked as a journalist in Hong Kong for the Asian edition of the Wall Street Journal, a designer for the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and a content writer for 1&1 Internet.

Each stop on the path his career has taken utilizes the exact same skills of writing, drawing and design that he uses to put together comics and cartoons.

As an illustrator, Steve is most well known for his Roller Derby artwork - which includes flyers, promotional materials and bout program posters created for leagues up and down the east coast. His most memorable work has been in designing the team logo for the Salisbury Rollergirls Wicomikazis. He also designed their original league logo. He designed a series of bout flyers for The Dutchland Rollers, as well as images for Diamond State Roller Girls and the defunct Three Rivers Roller Derby.

Prior to his Roller Derby work, he spent over 15 years publishing The Adventures of Superchum and the Mighty Befrienders. This parody comic in the vein of The Tick, takes a humorous look at super hero comic tropes from the silver age, bronze age and 1990s. It began as a regular strip in The Review, the University of Delaware's school paper, in 1995, but continued on after graduation as a web series for First State Comics. That web series was collected into an indie published one-shot. Then the series moved to The Lansdale Reporter by the year 1998. In 2000 the series returned as a short lived weekly strip on a Geo Cities site. And Superchum resurfaced yet again at the advent of social media, being published on MySpace, The Duck webcomics, and in print.

Myers has won awards for both political cartooning that he did for The Review in 1996, as well as graphic design for his illustrations, page designs and infographics for the variety of newspapers he worked for throughout his career.

He spent time as a production intern at Valiant Comics in 1994, learning how to create comics in the "Marvel" style from the industry vets like Bob Layton, Barry Windsor-Smith, Don Perlin and Bob Hall. He learned how comics were taken from art to completed product working with both Darren Sanchez and Mike Tuccinard.

His current projects are this blog which delves into the style and content of retro sci-fi from the 1960s as seen through the lens of a 2017 audience; and the comic project that inspired it all, his light-hearted homage to Star Trek, Spacejacked.

Career Highlights

MOVIES

Judges | There is no peace. Only good and evil.

In 2005, Steve was contracted to create 3 10-page preview comics for the upcoming post-modern western, Judges. The work was so well received by the producer/director that Steve's art was incorporated into the opening credits of the film. And when distribution rights were finalized, Steve's artwork was once again utilized to create all of the DVD title screens. Track down a copy of this hidden gem and you too see Steve's take on the New Old-West!

COMICS

The Adventures of Superchum comic by Steve Myers

For more than 15 years Steve worked on the ongoing adventures of Superchum, the world's friendliest super hero. Cut from the same mold as The Tick, this comic told the tale of how one group of heroes, based in the suburbs, simply wanted to make friends with a world that was sometimes too mean, sometimes too indifferent. You can read it still at The Duck.

ROLLER DERBY

Dutchland Rollers bout program designed by Steve Myers

This is one of many pieces Steve created for Women's Flat Track Roller Derby in the late 2000s. Steve brought his flair for action poses and vibrant choice of color palette to the world of Roller Derby to help shape a look of dynamic heroism and a feel of cosmic scale significance to each drawing and bout flyer.