Joe St. Pierre got his start at Valiant Comics in 1992, fresh out of the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He came up pencilling RAI (written by David Michelinie) and quickly moved into co-creator territory with Secret Weapons — a 21-issue Valiant series he wrote and drew himself, featuring an ensemble cast drawn from across the Valiant universe, including Bloodshot, X-O Manowar, Shadowman, and the Eternal Warrior.
From Valiant he moved to Marvel, where he became one of the primary artists on the Spider-Man family of books during one of the franchise’s most active commercial periods. He holds the distinction of having pencilled more Spider-Man family #1 covers than any other single artist — a record across a universe that launches a lot of first issues. He drew both Venom: Tooth and Claw and Venom: Along Came a Spider for writer Larry Hama, along with work on Gambit at Marvel, Aquaman and Green Lantern at DC, Transformers at IDW, and Power Rangers at Boom Studios.
His creator-owned work began with Megahurtz at Image Comics in 1997 — a cyberpunk body-horror odyssey about a creature of muscle grafts and cybernetic implants trying to understand what it is. That series eventually moved under his own publishing imprint, Astronaut Ink, which he founded to house his creator-owned properties: Megahurtz, Bold Blood, and New Zodiax, a twelve-issue cosmic series built around the zodiac constellations where each issue follows a different character who channels paranormal energies tied to their sign.
His commercial illustration career runs parallel to his comics work — clients include MTV, Discovery Channel, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Sony, and Activision. He has done storyboards, IP design, and animation work alongside the comics throughout his career. He has also collaborated with ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau on the Fabien Cousteau Expeditions children’s graphic adventure series (Simon & Schuster), beginning with Great White Shark Adventure in 2019.
