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Sketchy Thoughts by Steve Stegelin Articles
Steve Stegelin’s Anatomy of a Pinup: Octobriana 1976
As a cartoonist with regular weekly deadlines and commitments to other projects, taking time to draw just for...
Steve Stegelin’s Happy Accidents: Drawing as Improvisation
A couple of posts back, I shared my process behind a pinup illustration for a #SupportYourLCS social media campaign, and I commented how it reminded me that drawing is like excavation. I was again reminded of that as I continued the revival of my old indie...
Steve Stegelin’s Cartoonist in Quarantine
Cartoonist in Quarantine: Tips to Surviving the Stay-At-Home Order with Your Sanity In Tact As a ShoutFyre member, you’re likely an aspiring or professional comic creator, but odds are you also have a day job that actually pays the bills. Or had, at least, before...
Steve Stegelin’s #SupportYourLCS: The Anatomy of a Pin-Up
Steve Stegelin's #SupportYourLCS: The Anatomy of a Pin-up A silver lining during this time of pandemic has been seeing communities rise up to aid those most impacted by the economic shutdown and quarantine. Among those communities deeply impacted? Our local comic...
Sketchy Conversations: An Interview with Butch Mapa
Sketchy Conversations: An Interview with Butch Mapa There’s nothing like a pandemic to make the world seem small. In this uncertain time, I started checking in with various friends and creative collaborators around the globe. One of the furthest away (with a literal...
Steve Stegelin’s Keeping That Comic Creator Passion Alive
Keeping That Comic Creator Passion Alive Let’s face it, creating comics is a passion project. Regardless of whether you’re a writer, an artist, or a do-it-all creator, comic creation is a time-consuming task with its fair share of frustrations. You can put a lot of...
Steve Stegelin’s Comics in the Time of Coronavirus
Comics in the Time of Coronavirus If you’re a genre geek like me, the past couple of weeks have likely called to mind the opening chapters of Stephen King’s The Stand or the closing credits of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, watching a contagion fan out and flare up...
Steve Stegelin’s Going Home Again: Revisiting Past Projects
Going Home Again: Revisiting Past Projects Today, I’m probably best known for my long-running gig as an editorial cartoonist and illustrator at Charleston City Paper. Even though it’s a local alt-weekly, I’ve managed to gain recognition across the continent through...
Steve Stegelin’s The Gateways to Where Ideas Are Born
The Gateways to Where Ideas Are Born For 15+ years, I’ve contributed weekly editorial cartoons at Charleston City Paper. Week after week, a new strip, a new opinion, a new punchline. As such, one of the most common questions I hear is “Where do you get your...
Steve Stegelin’s Con Job “Tips to Making the Most of a Convention”
Con Job: Tips to Making the Most of a Convention This past weekend, while tabling at the two-day Captain’s Comic Expo in Charleston, SC, I took time to observe what seemed to work (and not) with artists’ and publishers’ con booths. I view conventions as more of a...