Sketchy Thoughts by Steve Stegelin | Full Time Comic Creator

Steve Stegelin’s CoronaCon 2020

CoronaCon 2020: Alternatives to Comic Conventions During a Pandemic With social distancing and limitations on crowd sizes a necessity to help slow the spread of COVID-19, the 2020 comic convention...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...