Steve White
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Steve White (born May 27, 1964) is a prolific colourist, writer, and editor from the UK who has worked as staffer, freelancer, or both for Marvel UK, Tundra UK, Egmont Fleetway, Titan Books, and Hachette. Comics, games and magazines he's worked on include Real Ghostbusters, Dragon's Claws, Sonic the Comic, 2000AD, Knights of Pendragon, Magic: The Gathering, and Orbis's Dinosaurs! partwork. He's got around.
You can also commission him to draw you detailed pictures of dinosaurs and sharks!
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Work for Transformers
He got his job at Marvel editorial via his schoolmate Gary Gilbert.[1] To boost his wages he also did some of the colouring, ending up on the Transformers comic in the 1980s (colouring the first appearance of Death's Head), as well as on other comics. He ended up as editor and writer on titles like Action Force; due to this, he was supposedly the inspiration for Combat Colin's sidekick, Semi-Automatic Steve.
In the early 21st century, he was a guest at the Transforce convention and was startled to be applauded. He told on interview that "Transformers was just one those things that happened to other people unless Si said he had another colour job for me" and the cheering made him feel mildly guilty "for having such a lackadaisical attitude". [2]
White was a big driving force in setting up their Transformers title, stating there was "no way on God's green Earth" he was going to let anyone else edit it and being personally responsible for Simon Furman, Don Figueroa and Geoff Senior being on it, the last done when both were drunk. This was intended as The Big One to get Titan some industry recognition. [3]. After the rebrand for Dark of the Moon, he became senior editor.
His favourite things are sharks, dinosaurs, and jet planes, and he longs for the day someone will make a dino-shark that turns into a jet.
Fiction
Titan Magazines was captured by the Decepticons in 2008. Steve White was locked in a cage and forced to keep working on Titan's comics, while barely being fed. He was briefly let out to visit Bristol Comic Expo 2008, and returned psychologically shattered, bruised and covered in lipstick. 13's Star Screams
Months of this treatment have left Steve permanently hunched over and muttering insanely. #19's Star Screams He does, however, have enough presence of mind to scream at the idea of releasing the comic more often, and to cry for the chance to go to the pub. #21's Star Screams
Notes
- Before he was made redundant from Marvel UK in 1991, there'd be some friction beforehand as he'd disagreed with the planned move to contemporary muscles-and-guns superheroes and felt Marvel UK should emulate DC's Vertigo line.[4]
- Among his Marvel UK pals were Dan Abnett, and John Tomlinson, who he co-wrote and co-plotted some strips (as well as for 2000AD).
References
- ↑ Judge Dredd Megazine #440 interview
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090215042925/http://fractalmatter.com/main/?p=671 Fractal Matter interview (Wayback)]
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090215042925/http://fractalmatter.com/main/?p=671 Fractal Matter interview (Wayback)]
- ↑ Judge Dredd Megazine #440 interview
