Dinosaur Artist and Comics Creator Steve White fronts new issue of “Colored Pencil”

By John Freeman on January 1, 2020

Celebrating ten years in publication, the latest issue of the US magazine Colored Pencil leads with a cover feature on dinosaur and natural history artist supreme and comics creator and editor, Steve White.

Steve has worked in the comics industry for over three decades, his career starting at the offices of Marvel UK in 1986. Working his way up from colour separator – a discipline now lost in the mists of Time – to senior editor, colourist and writer, his credits range across a plethora of titles for both Marvel US and UK, from Care Bears to The Knights of Pendragon.

After Marvel, he worked in the UK offices of Tundra and as senior editor at Titan Comics.

Steve is also an illustrator and artist, specialising in creating incredible natural history art, and since departing Titan in 2016, he has set about developing his artistic career.

Triceratops clash. Art by Steve White

Private commission by Steve White. Two male Smilodons engage in a battle.

Meanwhile, he continues to maintain a hand in the comics genre; he is senior editor at Hachette Partworks, working on numerous comics-related collections such as the Judge Dredd Mega Collection, Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection and various Marvel lines.

Pitched as “Magazine Inspiration for the passionate colored pencil artist”, Colored Pencil published its first issue in January 2011. After just one year, the team were amazed by the outpouring of support from the art community waiting for such a publication. Now entering their ninth year, the magazine is read by tens of thousands all over the world.

The latest issue of Colored Pencil also features winners of the 2020 Colored Pencil Awards, Perfecting the Paper, The Making of Quinn, Getting a Head Start, Studio Tour with Wendy Layne, Peacock Feather Workshop, Inktense Art Gallery, and more.

• The January issue of Colored Pencil is available here from the magazine’s official web site, and is also available through an app for both iPhone and Android devices

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John Freeman

The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.

He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.