Biography[edit]

Steve Erwin was born on January 16, 1960.^[2] He studied commercial art at Oklahoma State University-Okmulgee.^[1] He credited Neal Adams' Batman stories and Gene Colan's and Tom Palmer's work on Daredevil as having "won my heart in junior high to aspiring (dreaming) to be a comic book artist."^[3] Erwin's first published comic book work appeared in Grimjack #18 (January 1986),^[4] published by First Comics. During the 1980s and 1990s, he worked primarily for DC Comics, his first story for that publisher appearing in The Vigilante #48 (December 1987).^[4] After that title's cancellation, Erwin co-created the title Checkmate! with writer Paul Kupperberg.^[5] In August 1991, Erwin and Marv Wolfman launched the Deathstroke the Terminator title,^[6] a series that Erwin would draw from 1991 to 1994.^[4] The Gunfire character was created by Len Wein and Erwin in Deathstroke the Terminator Annual #3 (October 1993).^[7] Erwin drew the comics adaptation of Batman Returns as well as Star Trek: The Next Generation Shadowheart, the graphic novel adaptation of The Ashes of Eden, and the Mike Danger series published by Tekno Comix.^[4]


In 2007, Erwin was inducted into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, located in the Toy and Action Figure Museum.^[1]


Erwin died on October 25, 2023, at the age of 63.^[8]