Steve Purcell Biography

Fast Facts

• Graduated from California College of the Arts in 1982
• His first job for LucasArts was to work on a role-playing game featuring "cat-head babes" that was cancelled shortly after he was hired
• Worked as a freelance illustrator and a comic book artist for Marvel for several years
• His iconic "Sam & Max" characters originally grew from him completing the comics his little brother would leave around the house when they were children
• Quote: "I'm still taken aback when I receive a photo of anyone with a 'Sam & Max' tattoo․ That demonstrates a level of commitment that I don't know that I would ever be able to reach about anything․"
• Quote: "Though comics are satisfying to create, in other mediums there's the potential for a much bigger audience․"
• Best known as a cartoonist and the creator of comic book characters "Sam & Max․"
• Collaborated with LucasArts and Telltale Games to bring his comic creation "Sam & Max" to television and computer screens
• Was credited for "whip research" on the "Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade" video game because he bought a handmade bullwhip while making the game and would practice with it behind the stable house on Skywalker Ranch
• Painted the cover for the video game "The Secret of Monkey Island․"