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ARTIST PROFILE
Spotlight on Award-winning Graphic Novelist
N. Steven Harris
Award-winning illustrator N. Steven Harris has had a career spanning over
20 years in the comic book industry. Steven is a two-time Eisner nominated,
four-time Glyph award-winning graphic novelist. He recently received a
Virginia Library Association Graphic Novel Diversity Award for “Watson
and Holmes,” published by New Paradigm Studios.
His highlights include “DC Comic’s Aztek: The Ultimate Man,” a character
which he co-created along with Grant Morrison and Mark Millar, for DC
Comics. His credits also include “Batman: Officer Down,” (DC Comics),
“Generation X, X-Force,” “Deadpool Annual ’98” (Marvel Entertainment),
and a comic book called “The Crush” (Motown, Image Comics).
In 2011, Mr. Harris collaborated with the late L.A. Banks, best-selling
novelist of “The Vampire Huntress Legends” series, on a comic book
adaptation published by Dynamite Entertainment. He also illustrated a Jimi
Hendrix motion comic called Mojo Man released through iTunes and has worked on the Voltron comic, based on
the 80’s cartoon, also published by Dynamite Entertainment.
His most recent project is SOLARMAN from Scout Comics, a remake of the late 80’s and early 90’s Marvel
Comics character, which is getting some interest as a TV series. He also teaches young people through arts
organizations, and does storyboards for advertising agencies like Ogilvy & Mather and Berlin Cameron, on
products like Samsung, and Glaceau Vitamin Water. He has participated in gallery shows showcasing comic
book art in New York, Philadelphia, Georgia, Chicago, California, and Japan. Website: www.nstevenworks.com
Brotherhood of the Fringe
A nation has been occupied and colonized for 30 years. We focus on a young woman, named Jasira, native to
the nation, who works as a journalist. The corporation that employs her is part of the colonial occupying power.
Secretly she works with a revolutionary group called the Fringe whose goal is to expel the invaders from their once
proud and peaceful nation. Eventually Jasira is discovered, apprehended, brainwashed, and transformed into a
living weapon to be used to terrorize her people and to seek out and destroy the Fringe revolutionaries.
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