Artists You Should Know: Steve Rude - Comic Book Artist Extraordinaire
Steve Rude (born December 31, 1956) is an American comic book artist. He was born in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1982, Rude became widely known in the comics world when he and writer Mike Baron created Nexus, an independent science fiction comic book with a large supporting cast.
For the Nexus series, Rude designed a dozen or so distinctive alien races, including the Thunes, the Amphibs, the Quattros, the Giz, the Demons, and others. The stories were complex and thought-provoking because of their treatment of difficult themes related to justice, guilt and addiction.
Rude has won four Eisner Awards and one Kirby Award, as well as a Russ Manning Award. Rude more recently penciled and wrote The Moth in 2004, while continuing to teach art classes and do commissioned work. Rude’s style is a mixture of 1960s smooth lines and square jaws (reminiscent of Jack Kirby) and more modern work with thick lines and complex compositions. He is also a master of page design, many of his comic book panels changing and merging with each other into new shapes allowing for panel progression that often has a strong sense of the passage of time. Here is but a sample of the beautiful work from a master in the field….
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