Steve Lieber

Some Squad standouts by Steve Lieber!

This was a fun cover to draw! Great color by Marissa Louise.

Drawing a fill-in story for Teen Titans Academy. Here’s some line art of Stitch showing why smoking is never a good idea.

(TTA#4 written by Tim Sheridan. Edited by Mike Cotton & Diego Lopez. Color will be by @Dragonmnky.)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CPHKgHwBdY4/?utm_medium=tumblr

R.I.P. Jesse Hamm

helioscopepdx:

We are heartbroken to say goodbye to our beloved friend and colleague Jesse Hamm, who died yesterday morning. Jesse was a cartoonist, an illustrator, an essayist, a mentor, and an educator. He was funny, brilliant, and generous and we miss him terribly.
Jesse was occasionally active here at https://hammpix.tumblr.com/, but you can find a lot more from him online on twitter at his personal account https://twitter.com/jesse_hamm, and his art advice account https://twitter.com/Hamm_Tips.
We also recommend “Carousel,” his monthly column on the art and craft of comics at the Comic Con International website. https://www.comic-con.org/toucan/contributor/jesse-hamm.
A number of Jesse’s essays and tip collections are available on Gumroad: https://gumroad.com/jessehamm. Purchasing these is an excellent way to help support his family in this difficult time.

A thing I learned from @sciencepatrol (aka Jeff Parker) is that every scene is better when you put an animal in it, even if there’s no reason for the animal to be there.

Panel fragment from a fill-in I’m drawing for #dccomics’ Teen Titans Academy series.
https://www.instagram.com/p/COkPr-MBx8B/?igshid=14bw2teifey55

I make a lot of typos but sometimes they’re good.
https://www.instagram.com/p/COMjDNtBqSd/?igshid=o1deewvgi6mo

Just spoke to teenage me and he was very happy to hear that my job today is to draw Raven and Beast Boy. So anyway, you’re welcome teenage Steve, and will you please get in the habit of doing some basic stretches every day? I promise it’ll save us both a lot of trouble.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CN3TIQzB01f/?igshid=cux0cgfm9k3t

Grateful to the teacher at art school who, critiquing my work, showed me how much even a small area of specific, accurate vegetation can do for a panel.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNSoKlfsnry/?igshid=8xrjz6pxnnyz

Congrats to the team at @TheWireStripped podcast for landing an interview with @domenicklombardozzi. I drew some fan art of Herc to celebrate. Can’t wait to listen!
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#thewire #thewirefans #hbothewire #thewirehbo #waydowninthehole #hbo #lineart #penandink #stevelieber #fanart #herc #hercandcarver #domenicklombardozzi
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNLpGNeBQNc/?igshid=1b5398ic70id4

Inspired by a great interview segment with Wendell Pierce on @thewirestripped Podcast, I finished some fanart of a moment from season three of The Wire. “As rough as that neighborhood could be, we had us a community. Nobody, no victim, who didn’t matter.”

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#thewire #thewirefans #hbothewire #thewirehbo #waydowninthehole #hbo #lineart #penandink #stevelieber #fanart #wendellpierce #thebunk #omarlittle #michaelkwilliams
https://www.instagram.com/p/CM1uEqgh0lT/?igshid=16ldwhs7j92y1

From the archives: a 2004? original from a story I wrote & drew as a sort of test drive or pilot episode before UNDERGROUND.

I was experimenting with working smaller. Maybe my thinking was that it would help me get the claustrophobia feeling right? I’m not sure. This page is about 9 by 12.

The story eventually ran in the Image anthology FOUR LETTER WORLDS.

Looking at it now, my hand lettering is really crowded. (Was this a side effect of working so close to print size?) And that answering machine on the phone table is pulling focus away from our hero. But I like most of the drawing, and that jeep panel is still pretty solid. Good work, young Steve. Keep at it.
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#comicbookart #originalart #lineart #blackandwhitecomics #penandink #originalcomicart #underground
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMvm3_wBf47/?igshid=jypl5cuc7nh4