Steve Scott | |
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![]() Steve Scott at Atlanta Comic Con in 2018 | |
Born | Stephen B. Scott March 19, 1968 Gulfport, Mississippi, United States |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer, Penciller, Artist, Inker, Colourist |
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Steve Scott (born March 19, 1968) is an American comic book creator. Since 1994 he has been working for a wide variety of publishers, most notably Marvel Comics and DC Comics. [1] [2]
Living in Biloxi, Mississippi, Steve Scott started sending his artwork to comic publishers in the early 1990's until the independent publisher Malibu Comics gave him his first big break as a professional comic artist in 1994 with Sludge , set in the Ultraverse. [3] Meanwhile he kept his daytime job as a firefighter. [1] In 1999 he got his first of many gigs at Marvel with Wolverine and in 2000 the first of many at DC Comics with Hourman . In 2001, for DC Comics, he contributed to the publication of historical collection 9–11: The Worlds Finest Comic Book: Writers & Artists Tell Stories to Remember to commemorate public servants. [4] His work was exhibited and archived at the Library of Congress. [1] [5]
In 2007 Scott drew the panels for a five episodes tie-in animated on-screen comic book for season 6 of the television series Smallville , called Smallville Legends: Justice & Doom. [6] [7] In 2008 George Lucas gave his personal approval for Scott to draw the comic Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods . Lucas bought some of Scott's artwork for the Indiana Jones comic to exhibit them at Skywalker Ranch. [8] That same year Scott drew a ten page adaptation of the prologue of the Batman film The Dark Knight that was offered with the Special Blu-ray Giftset edition of Batman Begins . Film director Christopher Nolan oversaw and approved his artwork. [3] [9]
Around 2010 for Cognito Comics Scott made the bulk of the covers of the interactive digital graphic novel CIA: Operation Ajax that tells the story of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état. [10] Around 2012 for Leviathan Games he provided artwork for the 3D digital comic editions of The Bane of Yoto .
In 2015 he illustrated the first two parts of Dark Fathom, the tie-in comic for the Hollywood film Independence Day: Resurgence . [11] [12] In 2020 Scott worked for Cutaway Comics on the one-shot comic Eldrad Must Live, a spin-off of the British sci-fi Doctor Who . [13] [14]
Steve Scott was captain of a team of firemen in 2005 when Biloxi was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. His own house was destroyed by a riverboat casino. While on duty he met with president George W. Bush who quoted him afterwards in a CNN interview that his house and car were gone but that his family was safe and that's all that mattered. [4]
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