Laura Martin
Laura Martin | |
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Born | Laura DePuy 15 September 1975 Eisner Award for Best Colorist, 2000 and 2002. |
Spouse(s) |
Randy Martin (m. 2001) |
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Laura DePuy (credited later in her career as Laura Martin, having married Randy Martin in 2001) is a colorist who has produced work for several of the major comics companies, including DC Comics, Marvel Comics and CrossGen.
Career
A sometimes comics reader as a child, she attended a
WildStorm (Image)
DePuy/Martin has worked in comics professionally since 1995,[2] and after being hired in 1995, served for five years as a "staff colorist and assistant supervisor," and "[o]ccasional designer" for Jim Lee's WildStorm Studios, then an integral part of Image Comics.[3] Among her earliest works was the collaboratively-colored Marvel/Image(WildStorm) two-issue mini-series Backlash/Spider-Man (Jul-Oct 1996), after which she co-colored issues of Divine Right and StormWatch.[4]
WildStorm (DC), DC and Marvel
In 1999, after the sale of WildStorm to DC Comics, DePuy became sole colorist on
DePuy colored the JLA: Earth 2 graphic novel by
CrossGen
From November 2001's Ruse #1, Martin worked on a handful of non-CrossGen comics (occasional issues of Planetary) until summer 2004. In addition to Ruse, she also colored Edge as well as occasional issues of Meridian, Negation and Sojourn, before the companies ultimate collapse.
Martin summarizes this time philosophically, writing:
"CrossGen was a good idea with a lot of talent behind it, that just didn't work out. The reasons are too many to list. But for my personal experience there, let me put it this way: I got to return home to Florida and be near my family. I got to work with some of the best talents in the industry. And I came out of the experience older, wiser, and with many more friends than I had going in. I can't beat that.[1]
Between 2001 and 2003, DePuy/Martin worked as "Assistant art director and Colorist" for CrossGen comics, ultimately moving to the companies base in Florida.
Post-CrossGen work
Post-CrossGen, Martin again worked with Cassaday on the English-language version of his and
In July 2004, she colored the first issue of
She has worked on a number of odd issues and covers for comics released by a plethora of companies, including covers for the Infinite Crisis lead-in limited series Villains United, for which she colored the art of J. G. Jones. In the summer of 2006, she colored the main parts of Paul Jenkins' Civil War: Front Line for Marvel's "Civil War" event, and in September 2007 began work on Joseph Michael Straczynski and Olivier Coipel's Thor.
She is also Art Director for the comics website
In December 2007, she helped color the first issue of
She continued as colorist on Secret Invasion and War is Hell, having relinquished duties on Astonishing X-Men to new artist Simone Bianchi (with new writer Warren Ellis).
At the 2009
In June 2008, at Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC, it was announced that she had become a member of Gaijin Studios.[7]
At the 2010
In October 2016, a variant cover she created for the first issue of the Image Comics Millarworld series Reborn was published.
Awards and recognition
She has been recognized for her work with six
References
Inline citations
- ^ a b c Colorista: Frequently Asked Questions Archived 2013-02-21 at archive.today. Accessed July 19, 2008
- ^ a b Contino, Jennifer M. (March 1, 2006). "An Astonishing Colorist". Sequential Tart. Retrieved July 19, 2008.
- ^ a b c Colorista.net: Resume Archived 2013-02-21 at archive.today. Accessed July 19, 2008
- ^ a b Laura DePuy at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original). Accessed July 19, 2008
- ^ Richards, Dave (July 27, 2009). "CCI: Laura Martin Makes Hers Marvel". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- Marvel.com. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ Brady, Matt (June 21, 2008). "Heroes Con: Laura Martin Joins Gaijin Studios". Newsarama. Retrieved June 21, 2008.
- ^ "Inkwell Awards Ambassadors"
General references
- Laura DePuy at the Grand Comics Database
- Laura Martin at the Grand Comics Database
External links
- Official website
- Laura DePuy at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Laura Martin at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)