Career
His first book,, was published in 2004 with a grant from the Xeric Foundation. He is also the author of Whatever (2008) and The Lodger (2010). His comic strips have appeared since 2005 in the alternative newsweekly the Boston Phoenix.
Reviews of noted its "painstaking cross-hatch.. and its pitch-perfect, "overheard" dialogue" and its extremely — even "overwhelmingly" — detailed realism.
Comics and Other Books Stevens" weekly comic "Whatever" appeared in the Boston Phoenix for three years, beginning in spring 2005. A collection of the strips, also called Whatever, was published in April 2008 by Alternative Comics.
In May 2008 "Whatever" was followed by a new comic, "Succe$$," illustrated by Stevens and written by Gustavo Turner. "Succe$$" ran through December 2008.
In January 2009, Stevens debuted a new weekly comic in the Boston Phoenix called "Failure." Stevens" book The Lodger, published in 2010, is a selection of strips from the first year of "Failure," accompanied by oil paintings and watercolors.
Painting and other work As an illustrator, Stevens collaborated with Anthony Apesos on the book Anatomy for Artists: A New Approach Discovering, Learning, and Remembering the Body, released in October 2007 by North Light Books. His short stories have appeared in Volumes 1 and 3 of Blurred Vision, anthologies of "New Narrative Art" published by Blurred Books.
