Steve Carter
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Steve Carter is an artist, writer and musician who began sharing his work in Elfquest fandom in the late eighties, emigrating to the furry fandom in 1990.
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[edit] Artist
Steve cites Frank Frazetta, Wendy Pini, Jon Bogdanove, Chuck Jones, Michael Ploog, H.R. Giger, Roger Dean, Terrie Smith and Warner Brothers cartoons as his main inspirations as an artist. His subject matter tends toward the positive, with warmth and affection of intact families as the most common recurring theme. He has a tendency to tell sad stories with happy endings in only a few panels.
[edit] Charity Work
Steve dropped out of the furry fandom for a couple of years in the 1990s, but returned in 1997 solely as a means of paying off bills. After accomplishing this goal, he turned to more serious work supporting various charities, which he has been doing since his late teens. These include:
- The USO
- The National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse
- The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
- The National Association for Children of Alcoholics
- The Make-A-Wish Foundation
- The Twin Towers Orphans Fund
- The Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children
- The United Way
In 2000, Steve received the Art Director's Choice award at Anthrocon for his illustration, Missing and its companion, Recovered, sold for $500.[1] He donated the proceeds from these two pieces and all their print sales to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
In 2004, Steve was awarded Chairman's Choice at Anthrocon for his illustration, A Time For Letting Go, a poignant image done in remembrance of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. The theme of the piece was the need to progress in life despite its tragedies.
[edit] Child Abuse Prevention
Steve has been involved in the fight against child abuse, exploitation and neglect since the late eighties and has been a direct contributor in the apprehension of two Internet predators.
[edit] Published Works
So far, Steve has not put much effort into publications, as he is already fully employed. He joined the furry world in 1990 as a charter member of the fanzine Tai-Pan with friends and collaborators Mark Barnard and Ted Blasingame. He departed that fanzine when it began to have, in his words, "too much emphasis on social liberalism and not enough on storytelling" and has been featured as a pin up artist in various publications here and there. His work was featured in the fanzine Gallery from 2002 through 2004.
Three of his illustrations were selected for the UK edition of the Dungeons and Dragons Saturday morning cartoon DVD compendium.
His first furry webpage was the directory Brigade on FurNation. However, after too many people called him by the name Brigade (it was the website's name) at Anthrocon 1999 over the July 4th weekend, he decided to change the title. In September of that year, he opened MouseHouse on Furnation, where he kept his furry work until early 2001 when friend Ted Blasingame offered him personal space while Furnation was having difficulty staying online. The re-title didn't really get his point across and he is still referred to as "Mousehouse" by people who don't know it was the name of the site, not the artist.
He co-authored the Blue Horizon stories with Ted Blasingame and has produced numerous pieces of artwork and music based on the series. He departed the project in late 2000, citing dissatisfaction with furry media in general.
While Steve is not as active in the furry fandom as he used to be, he is still interested in the genre as he respects the sheer quantity and range of freedom of expression which it represents.
[edit] Miscellanea
A self-described movie geek, Steve wrote a movie review column for the Carolina Flyer in Fayetteville, NC, in the late 90s and has a large collection of avant-garde, artistic and foreign films.
As a musician, he plays drums, guitar, keyboards and bass (his preferred instrument) and has created dozens of songs, only some of which have only been made available and only on rare occasions. As a bassist, he is a collector of odd instruments, including the Rickenbacker 4003, the Chapman Stick SB8, a fretless acoustic bass guitar, The Quaalude custom bass of his own design, and the "Funk Fingers" pioneered by bassist Tony Levin.
Steve is openly a tickling enthusiast, and refers to tickling as "the world's greatest topic." He has done considerable artwork on this theme over the years, ranging from G-rated parent/child interactions to more adult material.
He is a very vocal Libertarian and lives by the motto, "If I'm upsetting the nutjobs on both sides, I must be doing something right."
Steve has lived in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and various places around the United States. He currently resides in North Dakota where he is employed as a technical writer and legal assistant, working on a fantasy novel and mentoring at-risk youth. He holds degrees in Computer Technology and Military History and is an ABA-certified paralegal.
[edit] Websites
MouseHouse was an online art archive created by Steve containing furry art ranging from G- to X-rated, formerly known as Brigade. The changeover came on September 24th, 1999 and was the result of various attendees of Anthrocon calling Steve "Brigade," despite his corrections that it was the name of the website, not the artist. The changeover to MouseHouse had approximately the same effect, so Steve reconstructed a new site incorporating his name, Steve Carter Fantasy Art, since taken down at his request.
MouseHouse was at http://www.furnation.com/mousehouse/ from September 1999 - 2001, then at http://www.furstreet.com/mouse/ from 2001 - 2002.
The X-rated material disappeared from the site when Steve decided that a casual viewer should not be able to find both family-friendly artwork and adult material in the same place. He has given up erotica and does not currently maintain a repository of adult artwork anywhere on the internet.
[edit] References
- ↑ Steve Carter Fantasy Art (archived)
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