Ken Steacy
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Ken Steacy is a Canadian comics artist and writer. He is best known for his work on the Comico comic book series of Astro Boy and Jonny Quest, as well as his graphic novel collaborations with Harlan Ellison, Night and the Enemy 1987 and Dean Motter. The Sacred and the Profane, also from 1987. In 1990 DC Comics published Steacy's Tempus Fugitive. Since 2004 Steacy has been running a publishing company,Ken Steacy Publishing
[edit] History
Taken from his biography on Tom McBomb
Ken Steacy is a Canadian Air Force brat who decided at age eleven to become a professional comic book artist. He pursued this intent until the magic moment occurred in 1974 with the publication of Super Student, a two page strip that he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered. This holistic approach has been a hallmark of his work ever since, true to his belief that specialization is for insects, not artists.
He studied film and video as analogies to the sequential narrative at The Ontario College of Art, but drove his profs crazy by turning in comic strips instead of film or video. They finally figured out what he was up to and awarded him a pile of scholarships, including the Lieutenant Governor's medal.
Since then he has written and illustrated the exploits of practically every popular character you could name, including Astro Boy, Batman, Superman, Spider-man and X-Men. His four major works in print are: The Sacred & the Profane (co-authored by Dean Motter), Night and the Enemy (stories by Harlan Ellison), Megapowers (written by physicist Jack Weyland) and Tempus Fugitive (which he did all by himself).
Ken spent two intense years at SANCTUARY WOODS MULTIMEDIA creating, producing, directing and illustrating The Awesome Adventures of Victor Vector & Yondo, an edutainment CD-ROM series for kids. He later produced a three issue comic book mini-series chronicling the further adventures of Victor Vector & Yondo in print. He has worked for many years with LUCASFILM, producing stories and computer-rendered illustrations for Star Wars children's books, and has collaborated on numerous occasions with author Douglas Coupland.
A series of his paintings depicting the peacetime activities of navigators in the Canadian Forces is part of the permanent collection of the National War Museum in Ottawa. CHRONICLE BOOKS has released Brightwork, a celebration of classic American car ornamentation which Ken wrote, designed and art directed. He recently produced all of the display artwork for the Space Place gallery at Edmonton's Odyssium, designed the sets and promotional material for a production of West Side Story, and painted a stack of Harry Potter trading cards.
Ken is very happily married to artist Joan Steacy and they have two terrific kids, Alex and Raymond. Together they have launched TOM McBOMB PRODUCTIONS INC. a content provider for digital video, books & periodicals, and other way-cool stuff.
