Scott Bieser
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Scott Bieser (b. 1957) is an illustrator and occasional writer of graphic stories, starting in 1986 with his solo project GAMBIT (Oracle Comics, 1986) and in 1987 collaborating with writer Steve Bennet and inker Mike Roberts on The Rovers, a post-apocalyptic high-school story lasting seven issues (Eternity). Bieser guest-pencilled an issue of Dinosaurs for Hire, briefly revived the GAMBIT story, and colored more than 30 covers and designed two dozen logos for Malibu Graphics' various titles through the late 1980s and early 1990s. He also wrote and drew the world's first computer-generated pornographic comic, the 3-issue limited series Cyber-Lust, for Eternity in 1990-91, which he drew on his Macintosh SE.
In 1989 he also had a handfull of editorial cartoons published in The Comics Journal, making him possibly the only cartoonist to have worked for Malibu and Fantagraphics simultaneously.
Bieser left comics in 1992 to focus on his other career as a computer game animator, and later art director for publisher/developer Interplay Productions where he had begun working in 1989. His credits there include the Amiga version of Battle Chess, Chinese Battle Chess, Battle Chess 4000 (which he also produced), Total Recall (for the NES system), Booger-Man, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek: The 25th Anniversary Game, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Star Trek: Starfleet Command, and M.A.X. 2.
Interplay's fortunes waned with the century's close and Bieser was laid off along with more than 100 other employees during 2000. In 2001 he had a brief stint as art director for start-up game developer CodeFire but quit after eight months to pursue a free-lance illustration career, establishing what he calls his "paperless art studio." All his work is drawn directly into his computer, using Photoshop software and a WACOM "Intuos" graphics tablet. For about a year he produced several dozen editorial cartoons published on the web, appearing on such sites as The Libertarian Enterprise [1], RationalReview.Com [2], and KeepAndBearArms.Com [3].
In 2002 Bieser was commissioned by libertarian activist Susan W. Wells to adapt her teleplay "A Drug War Carol" as a graphic novel, which was published first on the web ([4]) and in print by Big Head Press [5] (founded by his brother Frank W. Bieser) in 2003. The following year he collaborated with veteran science-fiction author L. Neil Smith to adapt Smith's 1989 novel, The Probability Broach, as a 184-page graphic novel, which Big Head Press published as The Probability Broach: The Graphic Novel in 2004. In 2005 he was commissioned by Los Angeles libertarian activist Michael Everling to draw a 64-page edu-comic concerning the life and ideas of 19th Century economist Frédéric Bastiat, but that work has not yet been published.
In 2006 Big Head Press began publishing three original graphic novels on the web, and Scott Bieser was the lead artist for one of them, Roswell, Texas, and editor for the other two: The Architect by Mike Baron and Andie Tong, and The Hook by Mike Baron and Gabe Eltaeb (with Mike Stegbauer).
Bieser presently lives in Wyoming with his wife, two sons, a cat, and two stupid dogs.
