Steve Leialoha

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Steve Leialoha (born 27 January, 1952) is an American comic-book artist whose work first came to prominence in the 1970s. He has worked primarily as an inker, though occasionally as a penciller, for several publishers, including Marvel Comics and later DC Comics.

Leialoha's professional career began in 1975 with the early independent comic book "Star*Reach", drawing the five-page story "Wooden Ships on the Water", adapted by writer Mike Friedrich from the song by Crosby, Stills, and Kantner, in issue #3 (Sept. 1975). He continued to contribute to "Star*Reach" and the same publisher's "Quack" for four years.

Leialoha freelanced as a regular contributor to Marvel from 1976 to 1988, working on such series as "Warlock", "Star Wars", "Spider-Woman", the Spider-Man title "Marvel Team-Up", the "Firestar" limited series, "New Mutants" and "Howard the Duck". In the 1990s, Leialoha began working at DC on Batman and other characters; at Harris Comics on Vampirella; and at Claypool Comics on "Soulsearchers and Company". The following decade, he became the regular inker on more than 50 issues (through mid-2006) of the DC/Vertigo series "Fables", penciled by Mark Buckingham, for which they won the Eisner Award for "Best Penciller/Inker Team" in 2007.Citation | last = Irvine | first = Alex | author-link = Alexander C. Irvine | contribution = Fables | editor-last = Dougall | editor-first = Alastair | title = The Vertigo Encyclopedia | pages = 72-81 | publisher = Dorling Kindersley | place = New York | year = 2008 | ISBN = 0-7566-4122-5 | oclc = 213309015]

He lives in San Francisco with his partner, comics artist Trina Robbins.

elected works

*New Mutants vol. 1 (as penciller) #32-34

Awards

*2003: Won Eisner Award for "Best New Series", for "Fables" #19–27: "March of the Wooden Soldiers" (with Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham)
*2005: Won Eisner Award for "Best Serialized Story", for "Fables" #19–27: "March of the Wooden Soldiers" (with Willingham and Buckingham)
*2006: Won Eisner Award for "Best Serialized Story", for "Fables" #36–38, 40–41: "Return to the Homelands" (with Willingham and Buckingham)
*2007: Won Eisner Award for "Best Artist/Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team", for "Fables" (with Buckingham)

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