by Steenz

Lost and Found

Steenz | June 2023 | Issue 24

Steenz is an award-winning cartoonist, editor, and professor. They are currently authoring and illustrating the the Ringo Award-Nominated syndicated daily comic strip Heart Of The City. Steenz is also the co-creator of Dwayne McDuffie Award-Winning GN Archival Quality and is featured in short story anthologies such as Eisner and Ignatz Award-Winning Elements: Fire, Mine!, and Dead Beats.

Steenz says about their work:

Sequential Art and Visual Storytelling is my passion. I love making comics and zines! Being able to get a story across with as few lines as possible makes cartooning magical. I find so much joy and humor in the world around me and being able to translate that to the page is what excites me.
I like to keep notes of little jokes and ideas in my phone. That way when I sit down to create I know what I'll be working on. For my syndicated strip, I write 3 months’ worth of daily comics at a time and then complete the strips about 4 weeks before they're due to newspapers! The process for graphic novels is a lot more detailed with regard to editorial, print specs, and whatnot!
Right now, I'm working on finishing my latest graphic novel, Side Quest: A graphic novel history of TTRPGs. (TTRPGs are tabletop roleplaying games). It's a long process and a LOT of research, so I'll be really happy once the book is complete!

Steenz is a St. Louis-based cartoonist, editor, and professor. They're the cartoonist on the syndicated comic strip Heart Of The City, the co-creator of Dwayne McDuffie Award winning Graphic Novel Archival Quality, and the co-creator of the Standard Comic Script. Steenz currently teaches cartooning at Webster University while editing titles from independent publishers and creators. They're also working on their latest graphic novel Side Quest: A Graphic Novel History of TTRPGs. They live with their spouse Keya and two cats Marko and Ripley.