Steve Lieber

Preview of Alabaster:Wolves #2

steve — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:36:21 +0000

The second issue of Alabaster:Wolves comes out next week, May 9th. It’s written by Caitlin R Kiernan, drawn by me, with color by Rachelle Rosenberg, and a cover by Greg Ruth. Alabaster is published by Dark Horse Comics.

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SHOOTERS is available now.

steve — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:04:41 +0000

A veteran of the Persian Gulf war returns home to a broken life after a tragic friendly fire incident, only to return to Iraq for a last shot at redemption as a private military contractor.

SHOOTERS is available now in comic shops and bookstores. 130 pages, hardcover, published by DC Vertigo.

For more about Shooters, go to the unofficial website SteelRiverSecurity.com

You can also order an autographed copy direct from me via Periscope Studio’s Etsy store.

Alabaster:Wolves #1 is out!

steve — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:26:25 +0000

The first issue of Alabaster:Wolves is out from Dark Horse Comics. It’s the start of a five issue miniseries, and I’m enormously happy with the response. It’s written by Caitlin R Kiernan, drawn by me, and colored by Rachelle Rosenberg. We’re all proud of the work, and I hope you’ll pick it up from your local comic shop or the Dark Horse app store.

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Girl Walk All Day party in Portland

steve — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:09:44 +0000

Sara and I are huge fans of Girl Talk’s ALL DAY. When we found out about the GIRL WALK/ALL DAY video project, we fell in love and watched it over and over. The director Jacob Krupnick has been traveling across the country putting on live screenings with dance parties. Tonight they came to Portland, and I had to attend.

I’m pretty sure I was the oldest person in the room- certainly the oldest person dancing. (And if this picture is to be believed, I was also the tallest.) Of course I pulled out my sketchbook. It’s never easy nailing the gestures of dancers- they aren’t exactly holding still- but if you stare hard enough, you can spot some patterns (and creep a few people out while you’re at it.) The picture below assembles some of the night’s more intelligible doodles. I had a great time. Big, big thanks to everyone involved.

More naked people holding still while I stare at them.

steve — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:51:53 +0000

It’s such a pleasure to work from life. Here are three charcoal (and a bit of conte) drawings from this week.
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Life drawing at Hipbone.

steve — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:04:13 +0000

It’s always such a pleasure to put my comics and agency work aside and do a few hours of drawing a model from life. Here in Portland, we’re lucky enough to have Hipbone, a drop-in life-drawing studio. I went last night with Erika Moen and Tina Kim and had a great time. Here’s a few of the more finished drawings. (Fist click brings up a small image that you’ll have to click again to make bigger. I need to figure out the new wordpress gallery interface.)

Off to Algeria

steve — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 01:21:39 +0000

Sunday morning I’m off to the city of Algiers in (where else?) Algeria, where I’ll be a featured guest at FIBDA: the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Alger . I don’t know how regularly I’ll be able to get online, but I’ll do my best to post notes, observations, and anecdotes to my twitter and google plus pages. I’m also hoping to not make a stellar gathering of international comics talent think I’m a total dink. We’ll see how it goes!

Birthday today.

steve — Thu, 19 May 2011 14:35:34 +0000

I’m 44 and I’m happier than I ever expected to be. I love my wife, my job, my studio/substitute family, and my city.

I don’t want any presents. The best thing I could get for today is a whole bunch of new readers. If you haven’t picked it up yet, go download my comic Underground for free and read it. Pass it along if you like it!

Thunderbolts/ Luke Cage pinup for Periscope’s weekly challenge

steve — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:56:41 +0000

Periscope Studio has started up a weekly(?) art challenge on our tumblr site. This week is sketches of Marvel Comics’ Thunderbolts in its current mode as written by Jeff Parker. I decided to go for a big shot of the group’s leader, Luke Cage, calmly explaining something to a robot. Click the image to embiggenize.

The original art is available at the Periscope Etsy store.

Pin-up for Poison the Cure.

steve — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:04:26 +0000

Portland’s Alex Cahill and Jad Ziade have a new issue of Poison the Cure coming out soon. Here’s a pin-up I’ve drawn for them of their character Miguel in his dream-state Aztec-warrior aspect.