Jim Steranko

James Steranko (born the November 5th 1938 with Reading, Pennsylvania, the United States) is a draftsman as well as a scenario writer and historian of Comics. He is famous for his work on " Nick Fury, Agent off S.H.I.E.L.D. " in the Sixties.

Artist and editor

Steranko writing, encrant, and coloring itself its work, it was unable to respect the required leading times. It slowed down its activity in the regular series, and worked on special covers or projects. Not wanting to confine itself only with the comics, it decided to publish various works, of which some Portfolio of the acrylic resins of various artists. Then it illustrated the covers of many albums connected, of which those of the famous pulp The Shadow .

Steranko created in 1969 its own publisher, Supergraphics. In 1970, he works on a comic book distributed in the elementary schools sensitizing the young people against drug. In 1970 and 1972, Supergraphics published two volumes of The Steranko History off Comics , in which one finds hundreds of reproduction of covers in black and white, a reprinting of a complete history of The Spirit of Will Eisner, and various interviews of scenario writers and draftsmen of the golden age of the comics.

With Supergraphics, Jim Steranko created magazine called Comixscene (famous Mediascene then Prevue ), which was initially a periodical speaking about the world of the comics, but evolved to a magazine plus general practitioner. This magazine existed of 1972 to 1994.

Steranko was charged with the artistic concept of Indiana Jones and the Adventurers of the lost arch. It is him which created the look of Indiana Jones as well as the visual aspect of film. It also helped to make the artistic concept around the Dracula of Francis Ford Coppola. Brad Bird acknowledged that the work of Steranko was its greater influence for Indestructibles.

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