Friends, we have another long overdue spotlight post for one of the undisputed masters of the ninth art - how the french like to call it - with the man himself, the myth, the legend that is Steve " The Dude " Rude.
Yes, long before the Cohen Brothers and Jeff Bridges popularized this moniker there was a guy who was known in comic fandom as The Dude.
As usual this post started while doing clean up duty for another post since my longtime followers known that I try to avoid posting stuff on the blog that I already included in previous posts. That doesn't always work out because there is a lot of ye olde copy / paste schtick involved when I write these posts - especially in the bonus section otherwise it would take me even longer to finish these posts - but I try so when I came across a lot of original art pages from HERITAGE AUCTIONS ( shoutout for always providing such fine art ) by Steve Rude I naturally went over my old posts to avoid posting something that I already did.
Well, as it turns out I never did make a full Steve Rude post which may have had something to do with the fact that when I first mentioned him - at least the first time that I could find - the news was that he was definitely leaving comicbooks behind. That put a really big dampener on any future posts and I am not quite sure what the situation is right now. There was a documentary about Steve Rude where it seemed like he was not long for this world but there have been some projects lately and it seems he is working again. My faithful readers out there might correct me if I'm wrong but at the moment it seems like he has several things in the works and besides releasing sketchbooks on a semi annual basis he is working again on what many people - me included - consider his grand opus NEXUS this time converting it from the comicbook format to newspaper strips. Which will be interesting to say the least. In any way, seeing as I haven't do a Steve Rude spotlight post before and the fact that I desperately need more comicbook content besides the big two on the blog I have decided to start with everybody's favourite space age executioner Nexus.
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