Steve White
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Steve White is a prolific colourist, writer, and editor from the UK who has worked as staffer, freelancer, or both for Marvel UK, Tundra UK, Egmont Fleetway, Titan Books, and Hachette. You can also commission him to draw you detailed pictures of dinosaurs and sharks!
At Marvel, he supplememted his editorial staffer wages by doing some of the colouring on Transformers comic in the 1980s (colouring the first appearance of Death's Head), as well as on other comics. He ended up as editor for Action Force and Knights of Pendragon. Due to the former, he was supposedly the inspiration for Combat Colin's sidekick, Semi-Automatic Steve.
In the early 21st century, he was a guest at the Transforce convention and was startled to be applauded. He told on interview that "Transformers was just one those things that happened to other people unless Si said he had another colour job for me" and the cheering made him feel mildly guilty "for having such a lackadaisical attitude". [1]
He went on to do more colouring work for 2000 AD in the 1990s before eventually moving to the editorial at Titan Magazines. White was a big driving force in setting up their Transformers title, stating there was "no way on God's green Earth" he was going to let anyone else edit it and being personally responsible for Simon Furman, Don Figueroa and Geoff Senior being on it, the last done when both were drunk. This was intended as The Big One to get Titan some industry recognition. [2]. After the rebrand for Dark of the Moon, he became senior editor.
His favourite things are sharks, dinosaurs, and jet planes, and he longs for the day someone will make a dino-shark that turns into a jet.
Fiction
Titan Magazines was captured by the Decepticons in 2008. Steve White was locked in a cage and forced to keep working on Titan's comics, while barely being fed. He was briefly let out to visit Bristol Comic Expo 2008, and returned psychologically shattered, bruised and covered in lipstick. 13's Star Screams
Months of this treatment have left Steve permanently hunched over and muttering insanely. #19's Star Screams He does, however, have enough presence of mind to scream at the idea of releasing the comic more often, and to cry for the chance to go to the pub. #21's Star Screams
External links
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090215042925/http://fractalmatter.com/main/?p=671 Fractal Matter interview (Wayback)]
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090215042925/http://fractalmatter.com/main/?p=671 Fractal Matter interview (Wayback)]
