Mark Brooks is an American comic book artist. For his cover art, he was awarded the

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in 2014. He has produced designs for a line of Marvel figures manufactured by

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Career

Brooks' first published work was in

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, written by

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for

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, in which he penciled the Atlas back-up stories in 2001. His first cover art was a variant for the Atlas #1 one-shot for

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. His other early work includes Transformers: More Than Meet the Eyes for

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, G.I Joe vs. the Transformers for

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, and Ultraman Tiga for

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. In 2004, Brooks penciled and provided the cover art for a number of issues of

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, his first collaboration with Marvel. He then worked on

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for two issues before moving on to illustrate the first arc of Amazing Fantasy (vol.2) featuring Anya Corazon. He signed an exclusive contract with Marvel the same year. He worked on various projects including penciling issues of ''

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'', ''

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Annual'', ''

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'', and providing the cover art for titles such as ''Araña: The Heart of the Spider'', '' Avengers: The Initiative'', '' Dark Reign:

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'', and '' X-Men: Legacy''. In 2014, Brooks was awarded the Inkpot Award. In 2016, Brooks gained critical acclaim for penciling the five-issue

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miniseries with writer

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, set between the original 1977 Star Wars film and

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. For his work, he was nominated for the

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in two categories, best penciler/inker and best limited series. In 2017, Brooks was the main cover artist for the 12-issue Secret Empire crossover storyline written by

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. In 2022, Brooks was the main cover artist for the

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crossover event written by

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Awards and recognition

*June 2010

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Ambassador (June 2010 – present)Almond, Bob (March 22, 2011)
"Ambassadors"

. *August 2014

Winner *May 2017

Nominee: Best Limited Series (''

'') *May 2017

Nominee: Best Penciler/Inker (''Han Solo'')

Technique

Brooks primarily pencils his work digitally, but shifts between digital and traditional methods when inking, colouring, and rendering. His style has been compared to that of artist

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, who is known for his realistic depiction of comic book characters.

Bibliography

Interior work

DC Comics

*''Robotech Sourcebook'' #1 (with various artists) (2003)

Marvel Comics

*''Marvel Age Spider-Man'' #1–2, 4, 6 (2004) *''Cable & Deadpool'' #1–2 (2004) *''Amazing Fantasy'' (Vol. 2) #1–2, 5–6 (2004) *''Amazing Spider-Man'' (Vol. 1) #515–518 (with Mike Deodato Jr.) (2004–2005) *''X-Men: Age of Apocalypse One Shot'' #1 (eight pages, with various artists) (2005) *''X-Men Unlimited'' (Vol. 2) #9 (11 pages, with

Sam Kieth Sam Kieth (born January 11, 1963) is an American comics artist and writer, best known as the creator of ''The Maxx'' and ''Zero Girl''. Career Comics Kieth's first published work was "a story in the back of a Comico comic" when he was "about ...

) (2005) *''Ultimate Spider-Man Annual'' #1–2 (2005–2006) *''New X-Men'' (Vol. 2) #20–22; (with

Paul Pelletier Paul Pelletier is an American comic book penciller. Career Pelletier began working as a professional comic artist in the late 1980s. His first work appeared in Cosmic Steller Rebellers (hammac publications) and Wayward Warrior (Hammac Publica ...

): #23 (2006) *''Ultimate X-Men'' (Vol. 1) #75 (12 pages, with

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), 94–95, 97–100 (2006–2009) *''X-Men Annual'' (Vol. 3) #1 (2007) *''Ultimate Fantastic Four'' (Vol. 1) #39–41, 47–49 (2007–2008) *''Young Avengers Presents'' #4 (2008) *''Ultimate X-Men/Ultimate Fantastic Four Annual'' #1 (with

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) (2008) *''Dark Reign: Young Avengers'' #1–5 (2009) *''Cloak and Dagger'' (Vol. 4) #1 (2010) *''Age of Heroes'' #2 (2010) *''Origins of Marvel Comics: X-Men'' #1 (one page, with various artists) (2010) *''Spider-Man: Back in Quack'' #1 (with Ray-Anthony Height and Joe Suitor) (2010) *''Fantastic Four'' (Vol. 1) #588 (with Nick Dragotta) (2011) *''Thor'' (Vol. 1) #620.1 (2011) *''Uncanny X-Forcev (Vol. 1) #11–13 (2011) *''Wolverine and the X-Men: Alpha & Omega'' #1–5 (with Roland Boschi) (2012) *''AvX: Consequences'' #4 (2012) *''Avengers: Heroes Welcome'' #1 (2014) *''Ultimate Spider-Man'' (Vol. 1) #200 (with various artists) (2014) *''Han Solo'' #1–5 (2016–2017) *''Star Wars Saga'' #1 (2017) *''Giant Size X-Men: Tribute to Wein & Cockrum'' #1 (with various artists) (2020)

Other publishers

*''10th Muse'' #7–9 (Image Comics, 2001) *''Atlas'' #1 (Avatar Press, 2002) *''Judo Girl'' #1 (Alias Enterprises, 2005)

Cover work

DC Comics

* ''

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'' (Vol. 3) #982–989, 991–995, 1002–1004 (variant covers) (2018–2019) *''Heroes in Crisis'' #1 (variant cover) (2018) *''DCeased'' #6 (2019) *''Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy'' #6 (variant covers) (2020) *''Batman/Superman'' (Vol 2) #13 (variant cover) (2020)

Marvel Comics

*''Marvel Age Spider-Man'' #1–6 (2004) *''Amazing Fantasy'' (Vol. 2) #1–6 (2004) *''Cable & Deadpool'' #5, 29, 34–35 (2004–2006) *''Araña: The Heart of the Spider'' #1–12 (2005–2006) *''Ororo: Before the Storm'' #1 (2005) *''X-Men Unlimited'' (Vol. 2) #9 (2005) *''New X-Men'' (Vol. 2) #20–25 (2006) *''Ultimate Spider-Man Annual'' #2–3 (2006–2008) *''What If? Spider-Man The Other'' #1 (2006) *''X-Men Annual'' (Vol. 3) #1 (2007) *''Ultimate Fantastic Four'' (Vol. 1) #47–49 (2007–2008) *''Avengers: The Initiative'' #14–20 (2008–2009) *''Ultimate X-Men'' (Vol. 1) #98–99 (2009) *''Hulk: Broken Worlds'' #1 (2009) *''Dark Reign: Young Avengers'' #1–5 (2009) *''Ultimatum: X-Men Requiem'' #1 (2009) *''Cloak and Dagger'' (Vol. 4) #1 (2010) *''Uncanny X-Men: The Heroic Age'' #1 (2010) *''X-Men Origins: Deadpool'' #1 (2010) *''Rawhide Kid'' (Vol. 4) #3 (2010) *''Captain America'' (Vol. 1) #612 (variant cover) (2010) *''Secret Avengers'' (Vol. 1) #7 (variant cover) (2010) *''The Incredible Hulks'' #618 (variant cover) (2010) *''New Avengers'' (Vol. 2) #7 (variant cover) (2011) *''The Amazing Spider-Man'' (Vol. 1) #651 (variant cover) (2011) *''5 Ronin'' #2 (variant cover) (2011) *''Uncanny X-Force'' (Vol. 1) #11 (variant cover) (2011) *''Wolverine and the X-Men: Alpha & Omega'' #1–2 (2012) *''X-Men: Legacy'' #260.1–275 (2012) *''Uncanny Avengers'' (Vol. 1) #1 (variant cover) (2012) *''AvX: Consequences'' #4 (variant cover) (2012) *''Avengers'' (Vol. 5) #1, 3 (variant covers) (2012) *''AAFES'' #14 (2013) *''A + X'' #4 (variant cover) (2013) *''Fearless Defenders'' #1–12 (2013) *''Guardians of the Galaxy'' (Vol. 3) #1, 5 (variant covers) (2013) *''Secret Avengers'' (Vol. 2) #4 (variant cover) (2013) *''X-Men'' (Vol. 4) #1 (variant cover) (2013) *''Age of Ultron'' #10 (2013) *''Infinity'' #1 (variant cover) (2013) *''Deadpool'' (Vol. 5) #21–25.NOW, 27, 30–32, 34–39, 41–42; (variant covers): 28–29 (2013–2015) *''Revolutionary War: Alpha'' #1 (2014) *''Revolutionary War: Dark Angel'' #1 (2014) *''Revolutionary War: Knights of Pendragon'' #1 (2014) *''Revolutionary War: Death's Head II'' #1 (2014) *''Superior Spider-Man'' (Vol. 1) #27.NOW (2014) *''Revolutionary War: Supersoldiers'' #1 (2014) *''Avengers: Heroes Welcome'' #1 (2014) *''Avengers Undercover'' #1 (variant cover) (2014) *''Revolutionary War: Motormouth'' #1 (2014) *''Revolutionary War: Warheads'' #1 (2014) *''Revolutionary War: Omega'' #1 (2014) *''Magneto'' (Vol. 3) #3 (variant cover) (2014) *''Avengers World'' #7 (2014) *''Original Sins'' #1–5 (2014) *''Uncanny X-Men Special'' #1 (variant cover) (2014) *''Iron Man Special'' #1 (variant cover) (2014) *''Nova Special'' #1 (variant cover) (2014) *''Ant-Man'' (Vol. 1) #1–5 (2015) *''Star Wars'' (Vol. 2) #13–14; (variant cover): #1 (2015–2016) *''Darth Vader'' (Vol. 1) #14–15, 19–20; (variant cover): #1 (2015–2016) *''Princess Leia'' #1 (variant cover) (2015) *''Kanan - The Last Padawan'' #1–5 (2015) *''Secret Wars'' #1, 5 (variant cover) (2015) *''Spider-Gwen'' (Vol. 1) #1 (variant cover) (2015) *''X-Tinction Agenda'' #1 (variant cover) (2015) *''Ant-Man: Last Days'' #1 (variant cover) (2015) *''Astonishing Ant-Man'' #1–3, 5–7 (2015–2016) *''Kanan'' #7–12 (2015–2016) *''Star Wars: Vader Down'' #1 (2016) *''All-New, All-Different Avengers'' #4 (variant cover) (2016) *''A-Force'' (Vol. 2) #3 (variant cover) (2016) *''Black Panther'' (Vol. 6) #1 (variant cover) (2016) *''Han Solo'' #1 (variant cover) (2016) *''Champions'' (Vol. 2) #1 (variant cover) (2016) *''Deadpool'' (Vol. 6) #25 (variant cover) (2017) *''Star Wars: Darth Maul'' #1 (variant cover) (2017) *'' Secret Empire'' #0–10 (2017) *''Darth Vader'' (Vol. 2) #1 (variant cover) (2017) *''Astonishing X-Men'' (Vol. 4) #1 (variant cover) (2017) *''Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Captain Phasma'' #1 (variant cover) (2017) *''Secret Empire Omega'' #1 (2017) *''Marvel Legacy'' (Vol. 1) #1 (variant cover) (2017) *''Star Wars: Doctor Aphra'' (Vol. 1) #14 (variant cover) (2017) *''Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey'' #1 (variant covers) (2017) *''The Avengers'' (Vol. 1) #675–690 (2018) *''Avengers Universe (UK)'' (Vol. 3) #3–5, 7, 9–10, 19 (2018–2019) *''The New Mutants: Dead Souls'' #1 (variant covers) (2018) *''Cosmic Ghost Rider'' #1 (variant covers) (2018) *''The Amazing Spider-Man'' (Vol. 5) #24, 49 (variant covers) (2018–2020) *''Tony Stark: Iron Man'' #2, 15 (variant covers) (2018) *''Fantastic Four'' (Vol. 6) #25–36; (variant covers): #1, 5 (2018–2021) *''Extermination'' #1-5 (2018–2019) *''Uncanny X-Men'' (Vol. 5) #4 (variant cover) (2019) *''Infinity Wars'' #6 (variant covers) (2018) *''Captain Marvel'' (Vol. 10) #1, 9–16 (variant covers) (2019–2020) *''Avengers No Road Home'' #1 (variant covers) (2019) *''Conan the Barbarian'' (Vol. 3) #4 (variant cover) (2019) *''Deadpool'' (Vol. 7) #14 (variant cover) (2019) *''Black Cat'' (Vol. 1) #2 (variant covers) (2019) *''House of X'' #1 (variant covers) (2019) *''Powers of X'' #1 (variant covers) (2019) *''Marvel Comics'' #1000 (variant covers) (2019) *''X-Men'' (Vol. 5) #1, 6 (variant covers) (2019) *''Mighty World of Marvel'' (Vol. 7) #21 (variant cover) (2019) *''Amazing Mary Jane'' #1 (variant covers) (2019) *''X-Men/Fantastic Four'' (Vol. 2) #1–4 (variant covers) (2020) *''Iron Man'' (Vol. 6) #1 (variant cover) (2020) *''X of Swords: Creation'' #1 (variant cover) (2020) *''Avengers'' (Vol. 8) #37 (variant cover) (2020) *''Demon Days: X-Men'' #1 (variant cover) (2021) *''Captain America Anniversary Tribute'' #1 (variant cover) (2021) *''Black Widow'' (Vol. 8) #9–10 (variant covers) (2021) *''X-Men: Trial of Magneto'' #1 (variant cover) (2021) *''Inferno'' (Vol. 2) #1 (variant covers) (2021) *''X Lives of Wolverine'' #3 (variant cover) (2022) *''Immortal X-Men'' #1–8 (2022) *''Captain America'' (Vol. 10) #0 (variant cover) (2022) *''A.X.E.: Judgment Day'' #1–6 (2022) *''Avengers Assemble: Alpha'' #1 (2022)

Other publishers

*''Atlas'' #1 (variant cover) (Avatar Press, 2002) *''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers'' #3–4 (variant covers) (Devil's Due Publishing, 2003) *''Transformers: More than Meets the Eye'' #3–4 (Dreamwave Productions, 2003) *''Voltron: Defender of the Universe'' #0 (Dreamwave Productions, 2003) *''Ultraman Tiga'' #2–3 (2003) *''Judo Girl'' #1 (variant cover) (Alias Enterprises, 2005)

Notes

References

External links

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Mark Brooks on Marvel.comMark Brooks on DeviantArt.com
American comics artists People from Gwinnett County, Georgia Artists from Atlanta Living people Inkpot Award winners 1973 births {{US-comics-artist-stub