Steve Gan (born May 22, 1945) is a Chinese-born Filipino[1] comics artist. He is best known for co-creating Panday with Carlo J. Caparas and Marvel Comics' Star-Lord[2] and Skull the Slayer.[3]
Steve Gan | |
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Born | Santos S. Gan May 22, 1945 |
Nationality | Filipino |
Area(s) | penciller, inker |
Notable works | Panday Star-Lord Skull the Slayer |
Steve Gan was born as Santos S. Gan but changed his first name to "Steve" in admiration of Steve Ditko.[2] Gan studied architecture at the Mapúa Institute of Technology[4] and later worked as an artist in the Komiks industry.
It was as Steve Gan that he got a huge break drawing for American comic book publisher Marvel Comics, sending work through his United States-based agent, the Filipino comic book artist Tony DeZuñiga.[2] In 1974, Gan began drawing for Marvel Comics and contributed to their line of black-and-white magazines including Savage Tales[5] and Dracula Lives.[6] He co-created Star-Lord[2] and Skull the Slayer[3] with writers Steve Englehart and Marv Wolfman respectively. Gan was highly regarded for his artwork on both Conan titles Conan the Barbarian and Savage Sword of Conan from 1974 - 1979.
Gan briefly worked for Warren Publishing in the early 1980s.[7] After leaving the comics industry, he became a layout designer and storyboard artist in the animation field.[4] Upon the release of the Guardians of the Galaxy film in 2014, Gan was given both a credit in the movie and royalties for co-creating Star-Lord.[8]
Gan is married with three children.[1]
He retired from drawing comics fulltime in 2002,
speaking at a convention
in 2014 he spoke about walking away from drawing in the medium 12 years ago.[9]