Steve Skroce, eh?

I had never heard of Steve Skroce before Youngblood, so I guess it's a good idea to talk a little bit about him. He's a Canadian, so he must be nice. (That's a thing, right?)

He broke into comics in 1993 on the Clive Barker series Ectokid for Marvel Comics' Razorline imprint, where he worked with one of the Wachowski Brothers (now sisters). He went to work on the Marvel series Cable and X-Man before moving onto The Amazing Spider-Man in 1996.

After that, Awesome came calling for Youngblood. He'd do two+ issues before Awesome went belly up. Moore approached him about doing Top Ten for his ABC line, but Skroce didn't want to do a monthly comic at the time.

Having worked on Ectokid, Skroce was contacted to create storyboards for The Matrix, which were used by the writing-producing-directing Wachowskis team to help pitch their movie to Warner Bros.

Here's some of his storyboards:

Skroce briefly returned to Marvel in 2000 to write and pencil four issues of Wolverine before drawing storyboards for the rest of the Matrix Trilogy. Here's an interesting interview about his storyboarding work.

Skroce often works on movies with the Wachowskis, and has done storyboards for I, Robot (2004), V for Vendetta (2005), Speed Racer (2008), Ninja Assassin (2009), Cloud Atlas (2012), and Jupiter Ascending (2015).

In 2004, he co-created (along with comicbook artist Geof Darrow) and drew Doc Frankenstein for Burlyman Entertainment, which is written by the Wachowskis.

With Brian K. Vaughan in 2015, Skroce was the co-creator and artist of the Image Comics science fiction series We Stand On Guard.

More recently, it was announced that he's doing an Image comic called Maestros.