Ken “Value Added” Steacy (born January 8, 1955) is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 comics

Comics

Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...

 artist and writer best known for his work on the NOW Comics

NOW Comics

NOW Comics was a comic book publisher founded in late 1985 by Tony C. Caputo as a sole-proprietorship. During the four years after its founding, NOW grew from a one-man operation to operating in 12 countries, and published almost 1,000 comics books....

 comic book series of Astro Boy

Astro Boy (NOW Comics)

The Original Astro Boy is a twenty-issue 1980s comic book series by NOW Comics, based on the original Japanese Astro Boy series by Osamu Tezuka. The series was based mostly on the 1960s Astro Boy anime series, but begun to include elements from the 1980s series in later issues...

and of the Comico

Comicó

Comicó is a village and municipality in Río Negro Province in Argentina....

 comic series of Jonny Quest

Jonny Quest

Jonny Quest is a media franchise that revolves around a boy named Jonny Quest who accompanies his father on extraordinary adventures. The franchise started with a 1964-65 television series and has come to include two subsequent television series, two television films, and a video game.-1964–1965...

, as well as his graphic novel

Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...

 collaborations with Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison

Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...

 (Night and the Enemy, 1987) and Dean Motter

Dean Motter

Dean Motter is an illustrator, designer and writer who worked for many years in Toronto, Canada, New York City, and Atlanta. Motter is best known as the creator and designer of Mister X, one of the most influential "new-wave" comics of the 1980s....

 (The Sacred and the Profane, 1987). Ken was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets

Royal Canadian Air Cadets

Royal Canadian Air Cadets is a Canadian national youth program for persons aged 12 to 18. It is administered by the Canadian Forces and funded through the Department of National Defence with additional support from the civilian Air Cadet League of Canada...

 386 Comox Squadron.

In 1990, DC Comics

DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...

 published Steacy’s Tempus Fugitive. Since 2004 Steacy has been running a publishing company called Ken Steacy Publishing.

Ken made several appearances in the 2009, 2010, and 2011 Desert Bus for Hope charity webcasts. For a donation of $500 he drew a picture of Amaterasu, the main character of Ōkami

Okami

is an action-adventure video game developed by Clover Studio and published by Capcom. It was released for Sony's PlayStation 2 video game console in 2006 in Japan and North America, and 2007 in Europe and Australia...

. For $1100, he drew a picture of Link and Epona from the Legend of Zelda franchise. He also donated a large amount of items for auction. For his contributions he was given the nickname “Value Added.”

In 2009, Steacy was inducted into the Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame.

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