Steve Epting

Steve Epting 2010

Stephen "Steve" Epting is an American comic book artist.

Life and work

Epting studied graphic design at the University of South Carolina before starting his career as a full-time comic artist as a contract draftsman for the independent publisher First Comics .

For First Comics, Epting created backup stories for the Nexus series and worked as a guest artist for the Dreadstar and Whisper series and as a regular artist for the Nexus spin-off series Judas Macabee: Hammer of God and Hammer and Hammer of God: Sword of Justice .

After First Comics went bankrupt in 1991, Epting, whose smooth and clean line-striving drawing style is influenced by Joe Kubert , Alex Raymond and José Luis García-López , among others , moved to Marvel Comics . There he initially drew as a guest for the series The Avengers (# 335-339) before he began to oversee this series as a regular artist (# 343-375). His partners on this project were author Bob Harras and Tuscher Tom Palmer .

In 1994 Epting took on various engagements for various series from Marvel's X-Men label, such as drawings for the X-Factor series as well as various annuals, specials and mini-series such as X-Men'97 , Bishop: XSE and the crossover team X / Team 7 . At the same time, he was working with author Roger Stern on a series of the same name about the adventures of World War I heroes The Invaders , which was published in Marvel's anthology series Marvel Universe .

At the end of the 1990s Epting worked increasingly for Marvel's competitor DC-Comics : There he worked with author Dan Jurgens on the series Aquaman (# 63-75). After a short run on Marvel's Avengers (2000), Epting moved to CrossGen , where he worked as an illustrator on the El Cazador series , which is about the adventures of a spirited pirate and was written by Chuck Dixon .

In 2004 Epting got the job of regular draftsman for Marvel's traditional series Captain America , which was restarted with a new # 1 at the time. Epting's partner in this project was author Ed Brubaker , with whom he still oversees the series to this day.