Steve Jobs gets comic book bio treatment

By Matt Moore

Associated Press

Published: Monday, June 13 2011 4:35 p.m. MDT

In this comic book cover released by Bluewater Productions Inc., Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is shown on the cover of the Bluewater Comics biography issue. The one-shot issue, expected in August, was created, in part, because of the sales of its last high-tech profile subject, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Bluewater Productions Inc., Associated Press

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Summary

Steve Jobs, the public face of Apple Inc., is getting a biographical comic book.

PHILADELPHIA — Steve Jobs, the public face of Apple Inc., is getting a biographical comic book.

Publisher Bluewater Productions Inc. said Monday it will bring a 32-page biography of the iconic CEO to comic book shops, bookstores and online retailers Aug. 24.

The book will profile the technological innovator who helped co-create Apple and then oversee its resurgence with products including the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. It's part of the publisher's wider series of unauthorized looks at contemporary figures ranging from Lady Gaga to Sarah Palin to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Bluewater says the success of its Zuckerberg comic — it sold out — led the company to look at Jobs as a subject. The new issue is written by C.W. Cooke and drawn by Chris Schmidt.

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