HEART OF THE CITY
Cartoonist - Andrews McMeel
2020 Ringo Award-Nominated - Best Webcomic
Heart Lamarr is a girl with big dreams who lives in Philadelphia with her single mom. She has her sights set on a life of theater, but she runs into plenty of drama off-stage, too. Luckily, her best friends Dean, Kat, and Charlotte form a stellar supporting cast to help Heart navigate the challenging world of school plays, cliques, rumors, and everything else middle school throws at them.
Lost and Found: A Heart of the City Collection - April 2023
SIDE QUEST: A Visual History of Roleplaying Games
Co-creator/Cartoonist - Versify/ Harper Alley
Side Quest is a graphic novel history of Tabletop Roleplaying Games. Combined with memoirs of how gaming influenced Sam and Steenz's lives, the two take you on a journey from the earliest forms of storytelling to todays roleplaying games.
Steenz and Sam Sattin
October 2024
ARCHIVAL QUALITY
Co-creator/Cartoonist - Oni Lion Forge
Winner of 2018 Dwayne McDuffie Award
After losing her job at the library, Celeste Walden starts working at the haunting Logan Museum as an archivist. But the job may not be the second chance she was hoping for, and she finds herself confronting her mental health, her relationships, and before long, her grasp on reality as she begins to dream of a young woman she's never met, but feels strangely drawn to. Especially after she asks Cel for help… As Cel attempts to learn more about the woman, she begins losing time, misplacing things, passing out—the job is becoming dangerous, but she can't let go of this mysterious woman. Who is she? Why is she so fixated on Cel? And does Cel have the power to save her when she's still trying to save herself?
Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz - 2018
DEAD BEATS
Cartoonist - A Wave Blue World
2019 Ringo Award-Nominated - Best Anthology
DEAD BEATS is a 168-page anthology of music-themed horror comics stories, ranging in tone from grim to darkly comic but all centering around the curiosities for sale at one peculiar record store. Best described as Tales from the Crypt meets High Fidelity, DEAD BEATS will appeal to fans of classic comics horror anthologies like Vault of Horror, Creepy, and Eerie, and of more modern fare like Flinch.
Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz- "Beyond Her Years" - 2019
When Innocent Until Proven Guilty Costs $400 a Month—and Your Freedom
Cartoonist - The Bail Project/VICE
Winner of Media for Just Society Award - Journalism 2021
Nationwide, there’s a growing use of GPS monitoring for people charged with crimes. But the practice is largely unregulated, leaving many with huge personal and financial costs. Aaron Cantu and Steenz created three comics telling the stories of those innocent people dealing with electronic monitoring.
Aaron Cantu and Steenz - 2020
Mine!: A Celebration of Liberty and Freedom for All Benefitting Planned Parenthood
Cartoonist - ComicMix
Winner of 2018 Ringo Award - Best Anthology
Mine! is a comics anthology to help raise funds and awareness, with proceeds going to Planned Parenthood. Join an all star roster of award-winning writers and artists:
The Mine! anthology is thought-provoking and powerful. It is filled with stories expressing a broad and diverse range of topics from the importance and history of Planned Parenthood, feminism, compassion and understanding, and so much more, and I think it's safe to say this is a worthy entry for anyone's bookshelf. It's beautiful, painful, sad, and celebratory all at once, and makes for powerful reading.
INDIE PUBLISHED
MINI COMICS
VOTING COMIC - ONI PRESS DRAW THE VOTE 2018
Steenz talks about the importance of voting and how you can make it an event to encourage others to vote with you!
BOOKLIST LIBRARY COMIC - 2019
Steenz writes about the importance of libraries in the comics industry for Booklist and how that access affects readers and creators alike!
MARION ANDERSON COMIC - KAZOO MAGAZINE - 2019
Steenz takes the reader on a journey to learn about activist and opera singer Marion Anderson for Kazoo Magazine
SELF PUBLISHED
MINI COMICS
ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN MINI COMIC - 2019
Encyclopedia is on the case again! Cadmus believes he was scammed into buying a fake strength tonic and he hires E.B to get to the bottom of it!
RECIEVING TRANSMISSIONS - 2019
When Scotty starts receiving letters from a mysterious sender, she wonders if the sender is someone from her past.
