Steve Oliff is a comic book artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry since 1978.
Steve Oliff was born on February 20, 1954. He is well-known as a comics colorist, having colored (among other projects) Bill Sienkiewicz's first Moon Knight story in the Hulk Magazine. From there he went on to color hundreds of titles in a variety of coloring formats. His company, Olyoptics, was one of the first to use computers to do color separation. Although other companies at the time were experimenting with computers, Oliff and his crew were the first to blend the color guide artist with the separator.
In 1987, the Japanese manga Akira was in preparation to be translated and published by Marvel Comics's Epic line. Oliff was chosen as the colorist, and he convinced Marvel that it was time to try computer color. The changes that began with the publication of Akira in 1988 have swept through the comics industry.
Oliff is a multiple Harvey Award winner for best colorist. In addition...
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