Steve Leialoha

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Steve Leialoha
Steve Leialoha by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Leialoha at the 2023 WonderCon
Born (1952-01-27) January 27, 1952 (age 71)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Area(s) Penciller, Inker
Notable works
 Fables
Spider-Woman
Awards Inkpot Award 1986
Eisner Awards 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007

Steve Leialoha (born January 27, 1952) [1] is an American comics 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.

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Early life

Cover for Spider-Woman #8 (November 1978). Art by Carmine Infantino and Steve Leialoha. Spwm108.jpg
Cover for Spider-Woman #8 (November 1978). Art by Carmine Infantino and Steve Leialoha.

Steve Leialoha was born in San Francisco, California, the son of a Native Hawaiian father. He began reading comics as a child, explaining, "My dad would always give me comics. I mean, he would like to read all sorts of stuff, and he would pass everything along to me. Harvey comics and that kind of thing, when I was six or seven. As I got older, the Marvel Age, which I think of starting like in 1962, I was ten, which is certainly a good age for reading that stuff." [2]

Career

Steve Leialoha's career began in 1975 with the early independent comic book Star*Reach , [3] drawing the five-page story "Wooden Ships on the Water", adapted by writer Mike Friedrich from the song by David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Paul Kantner, in issue #3 (Sept. 1975). [4] 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, [3] working on such series as Warlock , Star Wars , [5] Spider-Woman , the Spider-Man title Marvel Team-Up , the Firestar limited series, New Mutants and Howard the Duck . [4] He and writer J. M. DeMatteis co-created "Greenberg the Vampire" in Bizarre Adventures #29 (Dec. 1981). [6]

Leialoha was one of the artists on Batman #400 (Oct. 1986) [7] and in the 1990s, he began working at DC Comics on Batman and other characters; at Harris Comics on Vampirella; and at Claypool Comics on Soulsearchers and Company. He inked part of the World's End story arc in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series. [8] [9] The following decade, he became the regular inker on most of the issues of the DC/Vertigo series Fables , penciled by Mark Buckingham, for which they won the Eisner Award for "Best Penciller/Inker Team" in 2007. [10] [11]

Personal life and tributes

Graduated in 1969, Oceana High School, Pacifica, CA.

Leialoha lives in San Francisco with his partner, comics artist Trina Robbins. [2]

Writer Larry Hama named the G.I. Joe character Edward Leialoha (code name Torpedo) after Steve Leialoha. [12]

Bibliography

Claypool Comics

Comico

Dark Horse Comics

DC Comics

Paradox Press

  • Big Book of Death (1995)
  • Big Book of Grimm (1999)
  • Big Book of Little Criminals (1996)
  • Big Book of Losers (1997)
  • Big Book of the Unexplained (1997)
  • Big Book of Weirdos (1995)

Vertigo

  • The Dreaming #24, 47, 56 (1998–2001)
  • Fables #1–3, 5–10, 14–17, 19–21, 23–27, 30–33, 36–38, 40–45, 48–50, 52–56, 60–61, 63, 65–69, 71–75, 88–91, 94–98, 100, 102–106, 108–112, 114–121, 125–129, 131–135, 139–150 (2002–2015)
  • Jack of Fables #6, 11, 20, 22, 25, 38 (2007–2009)
  • Nevada #1–6 (1998)
  • Sandman Presents: Deadboy Detectives #1–4 (2001)
  • Sandman Presents: Petrefax #1–4 (2000)
  • The Unwritten #50 (2013)
  • Vertigo Secret Files & Origins: Swamp Thing #1 (2000)
  • Vertigo: First Offenses #1 (2005)
  • Vertigo: Winter's Edge #1 (1998)

Marvel Comics

Awards

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  2. 1 2 Munson, Kim (August 29, 2014). "Interview: Steve Leialoha". Comics Alternative. Archived from the original on November 27, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Steve Leialoha". Lambiek Comiclopedia. 2007. Archived from the original on October 13, 2012.
  4. 1 2 Steve Leialoha at the Grand Comics Database
  5. ↑ Sanderson, Peter; Gilbert, Laura, ed. (2008). "1970s". Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 180. ISBN   978-0756641238.{{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ DeFalco, Tom "1980s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 202: "Writer J. M. DeMatteis and artist Steve Leialoha explored a new take on the vampire myth with Greenberg."
  7. ↑ Trumbull, John (December 2013). "A New Beginning...And a Probable End Batman #300 and #400". Back Issue!. Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing (69): 51.
  8. ↑ Bender, Hy (1999). The Sandman Companion. New York, New York: DC Comics. p. 269. ISBN   978-1563894657.
  9. ↑ Burgas, Greg (January 7, 2013). "Comics You Should Own – Sandman". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on April 10, 2014.
  10. ↑ Irvine, Alex (2008), "Fables", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The Vertigo Encyclopedia, London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 72–81, ISBN   978-0-7566-4122-1, OCLC   213309015
  11. 1 2 "2007 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards". Hahn Library Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on August 24, 2012.
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Preceded by
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 Howard the Duck inker
1976–1977		Succeeded by
Preceded by Star Wars inker
1977		Succeeded by
Preceded by Spider-Woman artist
1980–1982		Succeeded by
Brian Postman
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