Steve Purcell

Quick Facts

Full Name	Steve Purcell
Occupation	Cartoonist
Date Of Birth	Oct 1, 1961(1961-10-01)
Age	63
Birthplace	California
Country	United States
Horoscope	Libra

Steve Purcell Biography

Steve Purcell is one of the most popular and richest Cartoonist who was born on October 1, 1961 in California, United States. Cartoonist whose work is renowned for his work on the popular comic series Sam & Max. 2007 was the year he won the Eisner Award, which is the Cartoon industry’s highest honour.

He was employed by LucasArts the animation studio of the megaproducer He worked for LucasArts, the animation company of megaproducer George Lucas..

The characters of Sam and Max were created in Purcell’s youth; Purcell’s younger brother Dave originally came up with several comics around the idea of a dog and rabbit detective duo. Dave would often leave unfinished comics around the house. Deliberately making the characters mix up each other’s names, shoot at each other and mock the way in which they had been drawn, Steve, in a case of sibling rivalry, would sometimes finish the stories in parodies of their original form. This developed from Steve mocking his brother’s to the creation of his own stories with the characters. In the late 1970s, Dave Purcell gave Steve the rights to the characters; he signed them over in a contract on Steve’s birthday and allowed him to develop the characters in his own way. Purcell believes that his younger brother has recovered and forgiven him from their earlier years. Having kept one as a pet in his youth, Purcell has an interest in rats, which are commonly featured in his artistic work.

Purcell entered into a career with comic books while an undergraduate at the California College of the Arts in 1980; he produced comic strips for the weekly newsletter. These strips featured Sam and Max, an anthropomorphic dog and rabbit duo who work as vigilantes and private investigators; Purcell drew the first strip the night before the deadline. Following his graduation in 1982, Purcell became involved in freelance illustration, working briefly for Marvel Comics, Chaosium, and on Steven Moncuse’s Fish Police series. Moncuse approached Purcell about the possibility of another comic book series to accompany his well-performing Fish Police series in 1987. Purcell agreed, and wrote his first feature-length comic using the characters of Sam and Max. The 32-page comic was published by Fishwrap Productions in 1987. The comic contained two Sam & Max stories: “Monkeys Violating the Heavenly Temple”, a name that Purcell found on a firework and thought was appropriate; and “Night of the Gilded Heron-Shark”. Purcell published a further story in a 1987 issue of Critters titled “Night of the Cringing Wildebeest”. These three stories established the basics for Purcell’s future work with the characters.

He was raised with his brother, Dave.

Steve Purcell Net Worth

Steve Purcell is one of the richest Cartoonist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Steve Purcell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He graduated from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1988.

He worked previously as a writer for Marvel comics, and wrote the Defenders of Dynatron City in 1992.

Steven Ross Purcell (born October 1, 1961) is an American cartoonist, animator, and game designer. He is most widely known as the creator of Sam & Max, an independent comic book series about a pair of anthropomorphic animal vigilantes and private investigators, for which Purcell received an Eisner Award in 2007. Since being a comic, the series has grown to incorporate an animated television series and several video games. A graduate of the California College of Arts and Craft, Purcell began his career creating comic strips for the college newsletter. He performed freelance work for Marvel Comics and Fishwrap Productions before publishing his first Sam & Max comic in

1987. Purcell was hired by LucasArts as an artist and animator in 1988, working on several titles within the company’s adventure games era.

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Who is Steve Purcell Dating?

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Purcell grew up in California, where he still resides. In a 2000 interview, Purcell said that he had been drawing all his life, and that he still possesses drawings from when he was three years old. Noting that his line of creative work depends entirely on things one learns, Purcell describes himself as an “average” student at school, but wishing that he had tried harder at some classes. After studying film-making courses at junior college, Purcell enrolled in the California College of the Arts to read fine art; he now holds a bachelor’s degree there. Purcell befriended Mike Mignola, and later Art Adams while at the college. Citing the Marx Brothers, Peter Sellers and Monty Python as among his interests, he says that he is inspired by “creative people who have made their seemingly most self-indulgent artistic whims into a career”. During the development of Sam & Max Hit the Road in 1993, Purcell married fellow lead designer Collette Michaud; the wedding cake was topped with figurines of Sam and Max as a bride and groom. Purcell has two sons.

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In 2005, LucasArt’s license with Purcell that gave them the right to produce games based on the Sam & Max franchise expired; this allowed Purcell to take the franchise to Telltale Games, a new company formed by members of Stemmle’s development team. A new episodic series of Sam & Max games, Sam & Max Save the World, was announced. Purcell’s work on the new game series encompassed design and writing, as well as the design of the game’s cover art; despite his work, Purcell described it as “minimal” due to the effectiveness of the team. At the same time, Purcell began a Sam & Max webcomic hosted on the Telltale Games website. The webcomic ran for twelve issues, and it earned Purcell an Eisner Award for “Best Digital Comic” when the comic finished its run in 2007. Purcell assisted with design and writing when Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space began development in 2007. Through Telltale Games, he released two sketchbooks of his Sam & Max work and a 20th anniversary edition of Sam & Max: Surfin’ the Highway in 2008. Purcell later painted the cover art for Telltale’s Tales of Monkey Island.