Alec Preston Stevens (born 22 February 1965) is an American
author,
illustrator
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and
musician
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.
Biography
Alec Stevens was born in
Salvador
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* Salvador (name)
Arts, entertainment, and media Music
*Salvador (band), a Christian band that plays both English and Spanish music
** ''Salvador'' ( ...
,
Bahia,
Brazil where his father, a
USAF officer stationed in various parts of the world, was on military assignment. At age twenty, Stevens began his career as a professional illustrator for magazines, books, and newspapers and also as an artist/writer for comics and
graphic novels. His work for the former includes a fourteen-year stint as a contributing artist to ''
The New York Times'' Book Review, as well as for ''
The New Yorker'',
Tower Records's ''Pulse!'' and ''Classical Pulse!'' magazines,
Reader's Digest Corp., ''
New Jersey Monthly
''New Jersey Monthly'' is an American monthly magazine featuring issues of possible interest to residents of New Jersey. The magazine was started in 1976. It is based in Morristown. In addition to articles of general interest, the publication fe ...
'',
United Features Syndicate,
AT&T, and numerous other accounts.
His comics work includes literary adaptations (
Wilde,
Lovecraft,
Dinesen,
Dostoevsky
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,
Reymont, and
Jan Neruda) for
Fantagraphics Books
Fantagraphics (previously Fantagraphics Books) is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, manga, magazines, graphic novels, and the erotic Eros Comix imprint.
History
Founding
Fantagraphics was found ...
,
Heavy Metal Magazine
''Heavy Metal'' is an American science fiction and fantasy fiction, fantasy comics magazine, published beginning in 1977. The magazine is known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction, erotica and steampunk comics.
Unlike the tra ...
, and
Kitchen Sink Press. Stevens also wrote and illustrated two
graphic novels, ''The Sinners'' and ''Hardcore'', for the
DC Comics imprint
Piranha Press
Piranha Press, an imprint of DC Comics from 1989 to 1994, was a response by DC to the growing interest in alternative comics. The imprint was edited by Mark Nevelow, who instead of developing comics with the established names in the alternative co ...
in 1988 and 1989. He had an original story serialized in
Dark Horse Comics's ''Deadline: USA'' in 1991-1992, and from 1993-1999 he drew a string of short stories for DC's
Paradox Press imprint. In 1993 he illustrated "A Tale of Two Cities" as part of the "
Worlds' End" story arc in
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer. ; ( Neil Richard Gaiman; born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, gr ...
's ''
The Sandman
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Representation in traditional folklore
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'' series.
References
External links
Official web site
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American illustrators
The Kubert School alumni
Living people
1965 births
American Christian writers
American comics artists