Steven F. Scharff
Steven F. Scharff is a fandom writer and artist whose work has appeared in several self-published "mini-comix" in the 1980s, including Lab Rat Funnies, Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Funny Animals But Didn't Know Why To Ask (which was a satire of the concept of anthropomorphics), and Dream Sequence, which he is expanding into a novel-in-progress entitled Packlands (originally Scrolls), and is being published in installments in the Rowrbrazzle APA.
Packlands has gone through a number of false starts and re-writes, and Scharff experienced a severe writer's block after Michael-Scot McMurry, who was to have illustrated the finished work, died of stomach cancer.
Steven has also contributed to other comics, mostly small press projects by other artists, but did write and draw a two-page strip in Jane J. Oliver's underground comix work Tales of Jerry #3. He was a staff writer for the marginalist newsletter Inside Joke, which he credits with learning how to write for an audience.
He has had a long standing interest in anthropomorphics, and became seriously involved in furry fandom after fellow self-publishing artist Timothy Fay wrote to him about the Rowrbrazzle APA. He sent then Official Editor Marc Schirmeister samples of his work for consideration, including a political strip entitled The Rats Retire, which he printed and posted on the walls of Manhattan in 1980 as a public art project. Schirmester published the wall poster strips in the second issue of Rowrbrazzle. Scharff jokes about this making him "Rowrbrazzle's only draftee".
Presently, he maintains The Microfreedom Index, an on-line resource devoted to various new country projects, independence/seditionist movements, model countries, exile groups and diplomatically recognized small nations around the world.
While he does not particpate in any on-line MUDs and rarely joins in on-line chatrooms, he has extensively written film reviews on the Internet Movie Database under the name "Baroque".
His avatar is a bighorn sheep, although he is known to use a fursona in printed work in the form of a "lounge lizard" dragon named "Oratorio".