Steve Rude is a comicbook penciler whose style is a mixture of the 1960s style of smooth lines and square jaws (reminiscent of Jack Kirby) and more modern work with thick lines and odd compositions. He is also a master of page design, many of his comicbook panels changing and merging with each other into new shapes and connections allowing for panel progression that often has a strong sense of the passage of time.
Rude first became widely known in the comics world when he created, with Mike Baron, Nexus, a sci-fi indie comicbook with a strong complex narrative with a large, diverse, supporting cast.
Rude designed for Nexus some dozen or so alien races, each quite distinctive from the other and reflective of their characteristics, including: the Thunes, the Amphibs, the Quattros, the Giz, the Demons, and a myriad of unnamed others.
The Nexus series garned a large fan following and ran for eighty issues (although Rude did not pencil them all) and seven short almost-yearly mini-series after the series ended.
Rude has won four Eisner Awards and one Kirby Award, as well as a Russ Manning Award.
Rude more recently penciled and wrote The Moth in 2004.
