| Steve Requin | |
|---|---|
| đ Image | |
| Born | Stéphane Johnson (1968-07-21) July 21, 1968 (age 57) |
| Area | Writer, Penciller, Artist, Inker, Editor, Publisher, Letterer, Colorist |
Notable works | The Eight Artiztech College Safarir MensuHell |
Steve Requin (born Stéphane Johnson, July 21, 1968) is a Canadian cartoonist from Beloeil, Quebec.
Biography
[edit]Steve Requin started publishing comics in 1988 for a French Canadian pop music magazine called Wow !, comics that he signed under the pseudonym Jon-Son.
In December 1994 he adopted the name Steve Requin and founded Les Publications Requin Roll for which he created and published many underground magazines such as Requin Roll and Les Plagiats de la BD. In 1999, he founded MensuHell, Québec's longest monthly underground comics magazine. MensuHell's ownership has been passed to Francis Hervieux in 2002, who kept publishing it until issue No. 109, dated December 2008.
From November 2001 to November 2008, Steve has been a writer and artist for Safarir, Québec's answer to the American magazine Mad. He mostly wrote and/or drew parodies of TV shows and movies, but he is also known for comics series such as Malice (drawn by Serge Boisvert DeNevers) and Konar.
In 2017, at the Festival de la bande dessinée francophone de Québec, he received the Jacques-Hurtubise award for his comic project, La Clique Vidéo.
In 2023, he published Le sucre rouge de Duplessis at Ăditions du Tullinois. It is an essay about the beet sugar industry in the Province of Quebec under the reign of Quebec's Prime Minister Maurice Duplessis.
In 2025, he published L'Amour est dans le champ de patates at Les éditions de l'Apothéose.
He is the Great-grand nephew of writer and historian Ăgidius Fauteux.
Bibliography
[edit]Periodical publications
[edit]Magazines
- Wow !, pop music magazine, 1988â1989
- Zine Zag, 100% comics, 1998â2004
- Safarir, QuĂ©bec's illustrated humour magazine, 2001â2008
Fanzines
- MensuHell, MontrĂ©al underground comics 1999â2002
- Requin Roll, MontrĂ©al underground comics 1994â1999
- Les Plagiats de la BD, MontrĂ©al underground comics 1997â1999
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Bibliography and sources
[edit]- BDQ, RĂ©pertoire des publications de bandes dessinĂ©es au QuĂ©bec des origines Ă nos jours, 1999, Michel Viau, Ă©ditions Mille-Ăles, Laval
- Histoire de la bande dessinĂ©e au QuĂ©bec, 2008, Mira Falardeau, VLB Ă©diteur, Ătudes quĂ©bĂ©coises collection, MontrĂ©al
External links
[edit]- (in French) Le sucre rouge de Duplessis
- (in French) L'amour est dans le champ de patates
- (in English) Steve Requin on IMDb
- (in English) deviantART (gallery of the artist)
