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Born in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Steve Rolston was raised a little
further north in a small town called Pender Harbour. He moved to
Vancouver after high school and studied classical animation at Capilano
College.After graduating from the two-year program, he got his first animation job at a.k.a. CARTOON as a storyboard artist on the cartoon series Ed, Edd 'n Eddy. He later worked at Barking Bullfrog Cartoon Company, doing storyboards for various cartoon shows such as Sabrina, PB&J Otter and Rescue Heroes. Seeking greater artistic satisfaction, Steve took a departure from animation work to pursue a career in the field of comic books. While honing his skills, he created two Flash webcomics in cooperation with Contemporary Cartoon Militia. These webcomics starred his own characters Jack Spade & Tony Two-Fist. In 2000 Steve landed his first professional comic gig: illustrating the first four issues of Greg Rucka's espionage series, Queen & Country, for Oni Press. That work won the 2002 Will Eisner Award for Best New Series as well as two other Eisner nominations. Steve was also nominated for the Russ Manning award for Most Promising Newcomer. Steve has contributed artwork to Paul Dini's Jingle Belle Jubilee one-shot, the benefit anthology 9-11: Artists Respond Vol. 1, and the 2002 Oni Press Color Special. He teamed up with writer Brian Wood to create a 3-issue punk rock love story called Pounded for Oni Press. They also put together an official Pounded soundtrack through Springman Records. Steve also pencilled a 3-issue mini-series entitled Mek, written by Warren Ellis and published by DC/Wildstorm. In the fall of 2003, Steve wrote and illustrated One Bad Day, a 116-page original graphic novel for Oni Press. One Bad Day is his first major solo work and his favourite project to date. In 2004, Steve returned to his beginnings on Queen & Country. He collaborated with Greg Rucka once again to illustrate Queen & Country #25, a special double-sized issue. Oni Press also published a scriptbook of the first Queen & Country arc, including sketches and a new cover by Steve. Other works in 2004 included a self-published mini-comic entitled Lost Souls In Love, a 2-page Urbz webcomic for Electronic Arts, and a new 2-page Jack Spade & Tony Two-Fist comic for Cartoon Militia's A United Front anthology 2005 saw the release of two comic projects. One being "Loud", an 8-page story written by Jay Faerber, appearing in the Image Comics' anthology Four-Letter Worlds. The other being Jack Spade & Tony Two-Fist #1 -- a 32-page comic collecting their early adventures, published by Cartoon Militia. Steve took a short break from comics in 2005 to do a 4-month stint at Electronic Arts Canada, where he did storyboards, prop designs and other assorted art chores on the video game Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects. Steve dove back into comics when he was brought in by
Dark
Horse Comics to replace Philip Bond on a mini-series entitled The
Escapsits. Inspired by Michael Chabon's novel
The Amazing
Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The
Escapists featured the talents of co-artist Jason
Shawn
Alexander and writer Brian K. Vaughan. Other
recent projects have included an issue of Tales of the TMNT (Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles) with writer Murphy for Mirage Studios,
Volume 4 of the Degrassi: Extra
Credit graphic novels with writer J. Torres for Madison Press,
and
seven pages in House of Mystery #4 with writer Matthew Sturges and
colourist Dave McCaig for DC/Vertigo. In November 2008, Steve and writer Mariko Tamaki released the graphic novel Emiko Superstar under DC Comics' short-lived teen-focussed imprint Minx Books. It won the Cybils Award for Best Young Adult Graphic Novel and is nominated for the Joe Shuster Comics for Kids Award. Steve and Mariko are also nominated for the Joe Shuster Awards for, respectively, Outstanding Artist and Outstanding Writer. September 2009 saw the release of Steve's first non-comics publication, The Great Motion Mission: A Surprising Story of Physics in Everyday Life by Cora Lee. Published by Annick Press, this book features over 60 colour illustrations by Steve. Currently on his drawing table is a five-issue
mini-series entitled Ghost Projekt, written by Joe Harris and
published by Oni Press. The first issue launched in March 2010. |
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