First of all, the whole "Smell of Steve, Inc." thing was just some sort of misguided practical joke. I’m not sure why I started calling myself that in the first place. A fake corporation as a pseudonym, yeah, yeah…whatever. It was supposed to be "funny," was my thinking at the time. So it happened: for good or ill, I started signing all my comics and illustration work that way. "Smell of Steve, Inc." And at some point, then, I decided to do a weekly comic strip. The title of the strip? SMELL OF STEVE. The strip started running in The Stranger (Seattle, WA) in the mid-1990’s, and eventually branched out to a bunch of other weeklies (and by "a bunch," I mean "a few"). The New York Press, The Philadelphia Weekly, Baltimore City Paper, The Portland Mercury, Terminal City (Vancouver, BC), Punchline (Richmond, VA), The Weekly Alibi (Albuquerque, NM), The Bohemian (San Jose, CA), GoGo (Denver, CO) all run (or used to run) the SMELL OF STEVE comic strip. And VICE magazine, as well. Oh, and HELLCAR and PROPHECY too. Online you can read the strip every week at www.serializer.net. At some point I began drawing another weekly strip called ZIGGY-WITH-A-HAT, which ran in a few of the aforementioned papers (before deservedly getting kicked out). I’ve also done hundreds (you heard me, buddy – hundreds!) of illustrations and covers for weekly papers. Clients include all of the above papers, as well as (to name a few) InPittsburgh Weekly, Orange County Weekly, and the San Francisco Guardian. Moving along now: I’ve done comics and illustration for Nickelodeon Magazine…design work for the Cranium Junior board game…and character designs for Studio B Productions (an animation studio in Vancouver). Design work for Amazon. Fantagraphics Books, Drawn and Quarterly Publications, and Dark Horse Comics (among others) have published my comics. And my illustrations have appeared in a few PRINT Magazine Regional Design Annuals. Oh, and one more thing: in autumn, 2003, the Nickelodeon TV network asked me to pitch them a cartoon show. PRESIDENT CARTER AND KENNY is what I came up with. Besides all that, I [insert fabricated biographical details here: perhaps something involving wife, kid(s), dog(s) and/or cat(s) and/or some other kind of "wacky" pet (such as, say, an iguana), as well as "pertinent" (i.e. impertinent) info about whatever city it is in which I live, and how much I just adore living here, etc., etc.] [OPTIONAL: include a photo of "me" (i.e. not-me) posed and smiling with my beloved wife OR if I’m in fact single perhaps I should be posed instead with my dog(s) and/or cat(s) and/or the aforementioned iguana, "Iggy." It’s up to "you" (i.e. not-you, i.e. me).] [How about just a photo of me/not-me without a shirt?] [That’ll work, yes.] This is me.   Web site design by Richard Salway