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Nightmare in Blue - Issue #4 (October 1997). Steve Rude is an American Comic book penciler. Image File history File links Nexuscomic. ...
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A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...
In producing a comic book, the penciller (or penciler) draws the comic based on the script created by the writer. ...
Biography
In 1982, Rude became widely known in the comics world when he and writer Mike Baron created, Nexus, an independent science fiction comic book with a large, diverse, supporting cast. For the Nexus series, Rude designed a dozen or so distinctive alien races, including: the Thunes, the Amphibs, the Quattros, the Giz, the Demons, and a myriad of unnamed others. The stories were also complex and thought provoking because of their treatment of difficult themes related to justice, guilt and addiction. Mike Baron is the creator of comic books Badger and (along with Steve Rude) Nexus. ...
October 1997 issue of Nexus Nightmare in Blue - Issue #4 Nexus was a comic book series created by writer Mike Baron and penciler Steve Rude in 1981. ...
Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
Baron and Rude's Nexus stories garnered a large fan following and ran for eighty issues (although Rude did not pencil them all) and seven short almost-yearly mini-series after the initial series ended.
Rude has won four Eisner Awards and one Kirby Award, as well as a Russ Manning Award. The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award is given for creative achievement in comic books. ...
The Kirby Awards were a short lived set of awards given for achievement in comic books. ...
The Russ Manning Best Newcomer Award is given out to a promising comics artist whose first professional work appeared within the last two years. ...
Rude more recently penciled and wrote The Moth in 2004, while continuing to teach art classes and do commissioned work. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Announced on November 15, 2006 is Rude's own "Rude Dude Productions" - a new publishing entity that will release new issues of Nexus and The Moth in 2007 as well as an anthology series. The new Nexus series will mark Rude's first work with Baron since the last Dark Horse Comics published issue. The new issue will be counted as #99 and is scheduled for a July 2007 release.
Style Rude's style is a mixture of 1960s smooth lines and square jaws (reminiscent of Jack Kirby) and more modern work with thick lines and complex compositions. He is also a master of page design, many of his comicbook panels changing and merging with each other into new shapes allowing for panel progression that often has a strong sense of the passage of time. Jack Kirby (August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was one of the most influential, recognizable, and prolific artists in American comic books. ...
Rude is a devotee of the illustrator Andrew Loomis, an influence that is evident in his style and particularly in his sketchbooks. Andrew Loomis (1892-1959) was an American illustrator who is best remembered now for a series of art instruction books that continues to influence realist artists, though they are in 2004 all out of print, except for some excerpts available from the art publisher Walter Foster. ...
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