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HUIE LIBRARY'S STEPHEN R. BISSETTE COLLECTION

About Stephen R. Bissette
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Stephen R. Bissette worked as a pro artist, author, editor, and self-publisher in the comic book industry for 23 years. He remains best known for his multi-award-winning tenure on DC Comics' Saga of the Swamp Thing (1983-87). He subsequently co-founded, edited, and co-published the controversial Eisner Award-winning horror comics anthology Taboo (1988-95), collaborated on the Image comics series 1963 (1993), and wrote, drew, and self-published four issues of S.R. Bissette's Tyrant (1994-96), a rigorously-researched portrait of the birth and life of a Tyrannosaurus rex