Steven Smith

2 months ago | authorstevensmith.co.uk | Steven Smith

Welcome back to another Open Book Blog Hop!Today’s topic is: What has been the hardest format to write for you? Remember to visit my fellow writers to see what they have created. You can find their works here!I’ve been very fortunate in my writing life. Much of what I’ve written or am writing has come easily to me. My two steampunk novels are in a genre I love, so fall into seamlessly.

2 months ago | panelsandprose.com | Steve Smith |Steven Smith

The United States has never made a bold move forward without anchoring it in a reading of the past. Our “Founding Fathers” have been carted out regularly to sanctify everything from The Civil War to Progressive and New Deal reforms, the Civil Rights movement to Reaganism. Americans like to frame changes in our politics and culture not as radical breaks from the past so much as realizations of original principles. It is self-evident in our own time.

2 months ago | authorstevensmith.co.uk | Steven Smith

Welcome back to another Open Book Blog Hop!Today’s topic is: Who is your favourite artist? Remember to visit my fellow writers to see what they have created. You can find their works here!I wracked my brain on this one. First, what makes an artist? Are we talking only about visual media – painting, sculpture, photography? Isn’t music and writing also art? And film, how can I forget film? So with all of these factors considered I’ve settled on one person – Tim Burton.

Jan 17, 2025 | panelsandprose.com | Steve Smith |Steven Smith

The Plunder Island sequence of Thimble Theatre Sundays that ran from December 1933 to July 1934 was E.C. Segar’s signature epic. It concentrated most of this master’s diverse talents and blended the many genres Thimble Theatre traversed into the strips most impressive run. Fabulism, farce, adventure, sentiment, venality, romance, screwball — all and more are here. And along the way, Segar even fleshes out and distinguishes among his key characters.

Nov 2, 2024 | panelsandprose.com | Steve Smith |Steven Smith

Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was not a cartoonist in any typical sense of the genre. He was insanely prolific across all media and seemed oblivious to formal silos that bother art critics and scholars. He worked in book and magazine illustration, painting, greeting cards and postage stamps, bookplates, murals, and, yes, comics (under the playful pseudonym, “William Hogarth, Jr.” for Vanity Fair). He was a working artist who liked to turn a buck, as entrepreneurial as he was genre agnostic.