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Alec Stevens (born 22 February, 1965 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil) is a professional illustrator.
At age twenty, Stevens began his career as a professional illustrator for magazines, books, and newspapers as well as an artist/writer for comics and graphic novels. His work for the former includes a fourteen year stint as a contributing artist to The New York Times Book Review, as well as for The New Yorker, Tower Records' Pulse! and Classical Pulse! magazines, Reader's Digest Corp., New Jersey Monthly, United Features Syndicate, AT&T, and numerous other accounts.
His comics work includes literary adaptations (Wilde, Lovecraft, Dinesen, Dostoyevsky, Reymont, and Jan Neruda) for Fantagraphics Books, Heavy Metal Magazine, and Kitchen Sink Press. Stevens also wrote and illustrated two graphic novels for DC's Piranha Press imprint in 1988 and 1989. He had an original story serialized in Dark Horse Comics' Deadline: USA and drew a string of short stories for DC's Paradox Press imprint. In 1993 he illustrated Neil Gaiman's A Tale of Two Cities in DC/Vertigo's Sandman #51, reprinted as the lead story in the World's End collection.
A dedicated Christian, Alec Stevens has also published two issues of Glory to God which feature stories from the Bible, historical accounts, and modern-day testimonies of faith. His most recent work (July, 2006) is the full color Sadhu Sundar Singh graphic novel, published under his own Calvary Comics imprint.
Since 1992 he has served as an instructor at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, Inc. Many of his former students are now industry professionals, and cite him as a notable influence.
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