Steve Skroce
Canadian artist who storyboarded The Matrix trilogy and co-created We Stand on Guard with Brian K. Vaughan — a comics and film career with few equals.
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Steve Skroce lives in two worlds — and draws both spectacularly. In comics, he’s the artist behind some of the most kinetic superhero pages of the ’90s. In film, his storyboards helped launch one of the most influential movies of all time. That rare blend of instincts is exactly what made We Stand on Guard, his 2015 collaboration with Brian K. Vaughan, so potent: a gritty, adrenaline-charged war comic that felt like a blockbuster in your hands.
Born in 1973 to a Croatian-Canadian family, Skroce broke in at 20 on Clive Barker’s Ectokid for Marvel’s Razorline imprint, then drew his way through Cable, X-Man, Gambit, and a celebrated run on The Amazing Spider-Man — plus Wolverine #150-153, which he wrote and penciled. His collaboration with Alan Moore on Youngblood sealed his cult status among ’90s readers.
Then Lana and Lilly Wachowski called. Skroce’s storyboards for The Matrix — created to pitch the film to Warner Bros. — kicked off a two-decade partnership spanning I, Robot, V for Vendetta, Speed Racer, Ninja Assassin, Cloud Atlas, and Jupiter Ascending, plus the comic Doc Frankenstein with the Wachowskis and Geof Darrow.
Back in comics, Skroce launched the gonzo fantasy Maestros in 2017 — a blood-soaked, profane saga he wrote and drew himself — then teamed with colorist Dave Stewart for Post Americana (2020), a post-apocalyptic revenge story The Beat called essential reading. He’s also the co-creator, with Vaughan, of one of the most electric war comics of the modern era. Catch up on his film-scope action in We Stand on Guard, and follow his latest pages on Instagram.
