Steve Erwin, a longtime comic book artist best known for co-creating Checkmate with Paul Kupperberg and then launching Deathstroke the Terminator’s first ongoing comic book series with Marv Wolfman, has passed away suddenly at the age of 63.Ervin grew up in Tulsa, Olkahoma (he was inducted into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame of 2007) and studied commercial art at the Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology—Okmulgee in the late 1970s/early 1980s. In an interview with Reggie Francia, Erwin noted how he first began to even think of becoming a comic book artist, “My teachers and classmates were my biggest influence to be an artist, actually. In third grade or so, I started getting heaps of praise on my art projects, asked to be the lead creative person on classroom art displays, that kind of thing. So becoming an artist of some kind came first, it’s something I always wanted to do. I think it was a combination of Gene Colan/Tom Palmer’s Daredevil and Neal Adams’ Batman stories that won my heart in junior high to aspiring (dreaming) to be a comic book artist.” Erewin’s dreams came true in 1986, when he began to do some backup stories in First Comics’ Grimjack (in the recurring backup feature, Munden’s Bar). Erwin drew some issues of the main Grimjack series with writer John Ostrander before Erwin and writer Steven Grant then took over the miniseries, Shatter, for First, doing the final four issues of the six-issue series.Erwin worked on Checkmate until a few issues before it was canceled (he did the covers until the book ended. He didn’t start doing the covers until it was a couple of years into the series). He did some fill-in work on New Gods and Hawk and Dove until launching Deathstroke the Terminator’s first ongoing comic book series in 1991 with writer Marv Wolfman (Will Blyberg inked Erwin on the series). Erwin did most of the first 34 issues of Deathstroke the Terminator. Something that Erwin particularly loved about Checkmate and Deathstroke was that the stories could be set in any location, as there was no set city for the titles like, say, Batman being in Gotham City or Superman being in Metropolis (like Checkmate, Erwin didn’t start doing the covers of Deathstroke the Terminator until about two years in, as Mike Zeck was the original cover artist for the book).
Steve Erwin, a longtime comic book artist best known for co-creating Checkmate with Paul Kupperberg and then launching Deathstroke the Terminator’s first ongoing comic book series with Marv Wolfman, has passed away suddenly at the age of 63.
Ervin grew up in Tulsa, Olkahoma (he was inducted into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame of 2007) and studied commercial art at the Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology—Okmulgee in the late 1970s/early 1980s. In an interview with Reggie Francia, Erwin noted how he first began to even think of becoming a comic book artist, “My teachers and classmates were my biggest influence to be an artist, actually. In third grade or so, I started getting heaps of praise on my art projects, asked to be the lead creative person on classroom art displays, that kind of thing. So becoming an artist of some kind came first, it’s something I always wanted to do. I think it was a combination of Gene Colan/Tom Palmer‘s Daredevil and Neal Adams‘ Batman stories that won my heart in junior high to aspiring (dreaming) to be a comic book artist.” Erewin’s dreams came true in 1986, when he began to do some backup stories in First Comics’ Grimjack (in the recurring backup feature, Munden’s Bar). Erwin drew some issues of the main Grimjack series with writer John Ostrander before Erwin and writer Steven Grant then took over the miniseries, Shatter, for First, doing the final four issues of the six-issue series.
Erwin worked on Checkmate until a few issues before it was canceled (he did the covers until the book ended. He didn’t start doing the covers until it was a couple of years into the series). He did some fill-in work on New Gods and Hawk and Dove until launching Deathstroke the Terminator’s first ongoing comic book series in 1991 with writer Marv Wolfman (Will Blyberg inked Erwin on the series). Erwin did most of the first 34 issues of Deathstroke the Terminator. Something that Erwin particularly loved about Checkmate and Deathstroke was that the stories could be set in any location, as there was no set city for the titles like, say, Batman being in Gotham City or Superman being in Metropolis (like Checkmate, Erwin didn’t start doing the covers of Deathstroke the Terminator until about two years in, as Mike Zeck was the original cover artist for the book).
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