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Steve Lieber

@stevelieberart.bsky.social

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Comics artist at DC, Image, Marvel, Dark Horse, Oni. Metamorpho, Backflash, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, Superior Foes, Whiteout, Underground, One-Star Squadron & more. https://linktr.ee/stevelieber

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · May 16

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From Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen. New hardcover edition coming in June.

Starkly lit black and white comics panel. Jimmy Olsen, in a sleeveless tee and old sweatpants, is on his elbows and knees in a dark, filthy SRO in Gotham City. His face is in his hands and he is miserable, saying “IT'S
THIS! IT'S ALL OF THIS! THIS DARKNESS AND MADNESS-“
Written by Matt Fraction. Drawn by Steve Lieber. Lettered by Clayton Cowles.

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 14h

I almost bought a brand new Recognitions pinball but it turned out to be a forgery

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 15h

It was wild when Armies of the Night head-butted the Myra Breckinridge machine

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 16h

Dumb question: Have any BOOKS ever had a licensed pinball? Not movie or tv adaptations of books- an actual prose novel licensed as a theme for a pinball game.

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 1d

Editors looking for queer coming of age stories, you should check out these sample pages of a potential memoir from @terryblas.bsky.social! I would love to read the whole book (a closeted Mormon teen serving his mission in NYC post 9/11 and eventually coming out)!!!

Terry Blas @terryblas.bsky.social · 1d

I just want to tell stories, and it's awful feeling like you're being kept from doing that. Anyway, here's the pages if you want to see them. I guess somebody should. 18/?

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Tom Rogers @tomrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Reposting for anotha’ #portfolioday
Portfolio: behance.net/tomrogerscomics
Work inquiries (currently available): [email protected]

#comics #art #comicoop

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

You know what keeps @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social funded and paying comic creators for their original work on sex, sexuality, gender, and being a human?

Our readers.

The regular systems that financially support small businesses are cut off to us. Our readers are everything
www.patreon.com/OhJoySexToy

Oh Joy Sex Toy | Patreon

Creating Weekly Sex Positive Comics

www.patreon.com

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 16h

For those who missed it, I did an AMA here yesterday! You can see all the answers at under the #lieberAMA hashtag:

bsky.app/hashtag/lieb...

bsky.app

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 19h

God I love drawing this guy. And Swamp Thing is fun to draw, too.

This piece is available in the Helioscope etsy shop, along with Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, and Underground, and many, many books and pictures written and drawn by other folks in the studio!
helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/4387...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

I frequently say you don't need to protest. You don't! There are a thousand other ways to push back on fascism if protesting doesn't feel comfortable or safe for you!

But if you CAN go, this 10/18 #NoKings thing is really a key protest to participate in. Be part of it, friends.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

NO KINGS, y'all! October 18! Find a rally near you and GO!

nokings.org

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Caitlin Yarrrrrsky @caitlinyarsky.bsky.social · 21h

Took one last trip to the Powells Books on Hawthorne and @leiladelduca.bsky.social noticed they highlighted my book with a little blurb! I’m honored 🥹 #LivingHell #DarkHorseComics

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

I was thinking Rǎs al Ghul

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

Home home home home home

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

This’ll be a long one
#lieberAMA

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

2004. 21 years!

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

Not really. There are a few I know I would’ve enjoyed working on , but nothing that really eats at me. I do wish I’d spent time writing my own stories at the start of my career, and built up some confidence as a writer.
#lieberAMA

Stephano N🇲🇽🇺🇸 @stephanon.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have a white whale project? Something that you knew was being solicited for creatives to join onto that you really wanted to do, but for whatever reason you couldn’t do it?

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

It varies from project to project. I tend to get hired for niche projects that don’t come with a lot of embedded expectations, so I usually have a lot of freedom. And if I’m doing a fill-in in someone else’s run, I’ll try to match what they’re doing, or at least play in the same key. #lieberAMA

Sherm @iamthesherm.bsky.social · 1d

When you get a job to draw a comic book, how much real creative control do you typically get when working with established characters?

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 1d

NGL, delegating work with art can be confounding. But coming up as an assistant to a pro artist is invaluable experience, it helps the artist make the deadline/keep work coming, and it leapfrogs the assistant through skills, it's a win-win.

Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

These days I don’t have to take jobs where I can’t comfortably hit the deadline, so I haven’t had to deploy many tricks. But hiring assistants has always worked well. I know a lot of terrific artists and I’ve learned how to incorporate what they do into what I do pretty seamlessly.
#lieberAMA

Liana Kerzner @redlianak.bsky.social · 1d

What's your weirdest trick to meet deadlines?

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

Someone needs to know what to do when the engine starts making weird noises 50 miles east of Moab.

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Amy Mebberson @amymebberson.bsky.social · 1d

I’d also add, even if you’re living cheaply/with family, focus on making your own comics rather than trying to get publishers to hire you on spec and hope.
I made 2 webcomics and that got me an invitation to co-create Divalicious for a Tokyopop competition. Rest is history.

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

One classmate asked what we were all thinking: “Did you…uh…”
“Did we bang?”
“Yeah.”
He looked carefully at the photo, took a long draw on his unfiltered Lucky Strike, and said “Christ I hope so.”

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

At school Tex, 75, rough-voiced gave me his “swipe file” -his midcentury archive of 1000s of reference photos. Going thru it w/him & classmates, we found a stack of posed b&w kodak photos from 1950 of an impossibly gorgeous dancer.
(Cont)
#lieberAMA

Douglas Wolk @douglaswolk.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have any good Tex Blaisdell stories?

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

For folks who don’t know about Stardust or Fletcher Hanks, @paultobin.bsky.social is here to help!
www.paultobin.net/public-domai...
#lieberAMA

Stardust the Super Wizard — Paul Tobin

www.paultobin.net

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