1. Stephen Steve Skeates was born in Rochester, New York, on January 29,1943.
16 Facts About Steve Skeates
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Steve Skeates's parents tended to describe him as "a dreamer" because he preferred to play alone rather than interact with other children.
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Steve Skeates enjoyed reading comic books, preferring cartoon animal antics to the superhero titles.
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Steve Skeates loved the parody stories in EC Comics' MAD, subscribing to its comic book incarnation.
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Steve Skeates set his sights on becoming a humorist himself and writing for magazines, but the popularity of television in the fifties drove many publications out of business.
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Still desiring a writing career, Steve Skeates chose his college based on catalog recommendations that it was a good school for writers.
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In 1965, Steve Skeates moved to New York City to become Lee's assistant editor, which largely required him to proofread finished comics.
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One of the series Steve Skeates wrote at DC in the 1970s was Plastic Man, for which he created the villain Carrot Man, an evil game show host who hit contestants on their heads with a toaster.
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Steve Skeates was initially afraid that his little section of New York State wasn't ready for the "bizarre mish-mash of stuff that didn't quite mesh" which he was turning out, but readers caught on quickly.
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Steve Skeates made a bundle of ballot photocopies and bribed his regulars with free drinks to save the strip.
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Steve Skeates moved back to Rochester in 1993 or 1994 to help his mother care for his father, who had developed Parkinson's disease.
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At San Diego Comic-Con in July 2012, Steve Skeates received the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing.
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Steve Skeates began writing for The Charlton Arrow anthology series in 2014.
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From 1996 to 2012, Steve Skeates was the editor of the PCBN Peoples' Comic Book Newsletter.
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Steve Skeates is not what I would call a 'pretty writer' but rather takes a subject and puts a unique twist on it that no one else had even considered.
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Steve Skeates can make the old look new again which is a rare talent in our business.