Steve Rude (born December 31, 1956) is an American comic book artist. He was born in Madison, Wisconsin.
In 1981, 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 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 others. The stories were ...
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Steve Rude (born December 31, 1956) is an American comic book artist. He was born in Madison, Wisconsin.
In 1981, 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 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 others. The stories were complex and thought-provoking because of their treatment of difficult themes related to justice, guilt and addiction.
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.
Rude more recently co-created and penciled The Moth (with writer/inker Gary Martin) in 2004, while continuing to teach art classes and do...
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