Cameron Stewart


Cameron Stewart is Canadian comic book creator, who has worked for DC Comics and other publishers. He is known for illustrating Catwoman and co-writing Batgirl, and illustrating several collaborations with writer Grant Morrison. His work has been nominated and won several comics industry awards, including Eisner and Shuster Awards for his self-published mystery web comic Sin Titulo, an Eisner nomination for The Other Side, and nominations for Eagle and Harvey Awards. In 2020 he was the subject of numerous sexual misconduct accusations involving teenagers and young women.

Early life

Stewart was born in Canada to British parents, and spent part of his childhood in England.

Career

Stewart began doing work for DC around 2000, such as inking the last half of Deadenders, written by Ed Brubaker and penciled by Warren Pleece. In 2002 he started work on Catwoman, also written by Brubaker.
In 2004 he illustrated Seaguy, a 3-issue series written by Grant Morrison. This was followed the next year by the 4-issue Seven Soldiers: Guardian with Morrison. Stewart and Morrison later produced Seaguy: Slaves of Mickey Eye in 2009. In 2010 he illustrated issues #7–9 and #16 of Batman and Robin, written by Morrison, and an issue of Morrison's Multiversity limited series.
Beginning in 2006, he collaborated with writer Jason Aaron on The Other Side, a serialized graphic novel about the Vietnam War, published by Vertigo. This was nominated in 2007 for an Eisner Award for Best Limited Series.
Stewart worked on a variety of smaller projects. He illustrated The Apocalypstix, written by Ray Fawkes and published by Oni Press in 2008. He and Karl Kerschl co-wrote and co-drew the 2011 miniseries , based on the Assassin's Creed video game series. and 4 issues of the SuicideGirls comic book in 2011. He created art for an animated sequence at the end of the music video for Canadian pop singer Skye Sweetnam's 2007 song "Human".
Meanwhile, he wrote, illustrated, and self-published online Sin Titulo, a black and white crime story which ran from 2007 to 2012. This work received a 2009 Joe Shuster Award for Webcomics, and the 2010 Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic, and was later republished in print by Dark Horse Comics.
He is a co-founder with Kagan McLeod, Ben Shannon, Steven Murray, and Chip Zdarsky, of the studio Royal Academy of Illustration and Design. He is also a co-founder of the Transmission-X webcomics collective.
In 2014, Stewart took over writing Batgirl when Gail Simone left the series, joined by co-writer Brenden Fletcher, artist Babs Tarr, and colorist Jordie Bellaire. After that series ended in 2016, he collaborated with Fletcher and Tarr on Motor Crush, published by Image Comics.
Stewart illustrated two sequels to the novel Fight Club, written by author Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club 2 published in 2015, and Fight Club 3 published in 2019.

Sexual misconduct accusations

In June 2020, Stewart was accused by multiple women and non-binary people of predatory sexual behavior when they were fans or aspiring artists in their teens and early twenties, and he was in his thirties. A common complaint was that he used his status as a professional artist to foster their trust, as a pretext for sexual advances, which they likened to grooming. Those making the accusations included Kate Leth and Natasha Negovanlis. In response to this, DC dropped Stewart from an unannounced project he was working on. W. Maxwell Prince and Martin Morazzo, creators of the Image Comics series Ice Cream Man, canceled Stewart's variant cover to the next issue of the series.

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