Pablo Marcos
Pablo Marcos | |
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Born | March 31, 1937 Laran, Chincha Alta, Peru | (age 87)
Nationality | Peruvian |
Area(s) | Penciller, inker |
Official website |
Pablo Marcos Ortega, known professionally as Pablo Marcos
Early life
Pablo Marcos was born in the small town of Laran,
Career
During the 1960s, Marcos drew such
American comics
Marcos moved to New Jersey in the U.S. in the 1970s.[2] Warren Publishing art director Billy Graham assigned him his first American-comics work, penciling and inking the six-page story "The Water World", by writer Buddy Sounders, in Warren's black-and-white horror-comics magazine Creepy #39 (May 1971).[4] After another Creepy story and one in companion magazine Eerie that year, Marcos drew comics exclusively for rival Skywald Publications' Nightmare and Psycho from May 1972 to May 1973 cover-dates.[4] Skywald co-founder Sol Brodsky introduced Marcos to fellow Peruvian artist Boris Vallejo, who became a mentor.[2]
When Brodsky, who had been
His first color-comics work in the U.S. was the cover of Marvel's Giant-Size Dracula #2 (Sept. 1974). Marcos' color-comics interior-art debut came at publisher
Marcos next freelanced for DC Comics, drawing Man-Bat stories in Detective Comics, and working on an issue or two each of series including Freedom Fighters, Kamandi, Kobra, Secret Society of Super-Villains, and Teen Titans[5] before returning to Marvel to do art for issues of The Avengers, The Mighty Thor and other comics.[4] In 1980, Marcos additionally freelanced for an Italian comic-book series, Tremila Dollari per Ebenezer Cross Western Story, and created the series "Dragon" for the Mexican magazine Ejea.[2]
By the early 1980s, Marcos was at work at what would become one of his signature characters, inking penciler John Buscema on Conan the Barbarian comic books, the black-and-white magazine The Savage Sword of Conan, and the newspaper comic strip. Marcos reduced his workload in September 1985 in order to tend to his severely ill wife.[2]
Marcos later illustrated a long run of DC's TV tie-in series
Other work
In the 1990s and 2000s, the Pablo Marcos Studio illustrated many books in Waldman Publishing's Great Illustrated Classics series of
Personal life
Marcos married Norma Martinez in 1960, and the couple had a child, Judith, that same year. Their second child, daughter Gisella, was born in 1963, and their third, a daughter named Norma like her mother, in 1967. The following year, the Marcos family, including newborn son Pablo, moved to Mexico. In the 1970s, the family relocated again, to New Jersey in the United States. Marcos reduced his workload in September 1985 in order to tend to his severely ill wife, a patient at New York University Medical Center, who died in November 1985. Marcos later married artist Myriam Giraldo.[2]
Awards and nominations
In 2021 he was awarded the Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame Award.[8][9]
References
- ^ Lambiek Comiclopedia. Archivedfrom the original on December 19, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Artist Biography". Pablo Marcos official website. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011. Retrieved December 5, 2010.
Pablo was born in Laran Chincha Alta, Peru on March 31st 1937.
- ^ a b "[Pablo Marcos interview]". Comic Book Artist. No. 13. May 2001. pp. 104–108.
- ^ a b c d e f Pablo Marcos at the Grand Comics Database
- ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9.
More than three years since Teen Titans was canceled, writers Paul Levitz and Bob Rozakis, with artist Pablo Marcos, revived the series.
- ^ "Jane Eyre" (PDF). GreatIllustratedClassics.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 4, 2016.
- ^ Great Illustrated Classics: Heidi, Scribd.com
- ^ First Comic News - 2021 INKWELL AWARDS VOTING RESULTS
- ^ 2021 Winners - Inkwell Awards Official Site
External links
- Official website Archived from the original on September 18, 2017. Note: Updated biography page is a Wikipedia mirror. Archived biography page in References is original.
- Arndt, Richard J. The Complete Skywald Checklist, 22 February 2007. WebCitation archive.