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

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and

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Career

A sometimes comics reader as a child, she attended a

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program at the

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, and, while "work ngthe night shift at

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Studios, so when DePuy graduated, she "...went to visit him, and took my portfolio (now filled with comic-related coloring and artwork)... nd washired on several months later."

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DePuy/Martin has worked in comics professionally since 1995, and after being hired in 1995, served for five years as a "staff colorist and assistant supervisor," and " casional designer" for Jim Lee's

Studios, then an integral part of

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. Accessed July 19, 2008 Among her earliest works was the collaboratively-colored Marvel/

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) two-issue mini-series ''Backlash/Spider-Man'' (Jul-Oct 1996), after which she co-colored issues of ''Divine Right'' and ''StormWatch''.. Accessed July 19, 2008

WildStorm (DC), DC and Marvel

In 1999, after the sale of WildStorm to DC Comics, DePuy became sole colorist on

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and

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's '' Planetary'' series, as well as Ellis and

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's ''

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''. Much of her work since then has involved coloring the artwork of both Cassaday and Hitch, who rarely work with other colorists. DePuy colored the ''JLA: Earth 2'' graphic novel by

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and

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in 1999, before, in late 2000, she also began coloring

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's art on the

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Marvel series ''

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'', and in November joined Bryan Hitch on

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's '' JLA'', coloring issues #47 - 58, following in tone the oversize volume ''JLA: Heaven's Ladder''.

CrossGen

From November 2001's ''

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'' #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 ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Sojourn'', before the companies ultimate collapse. Martin summarizes this time philosophically, writing: Between 2001 and 2003, DePuy/Martin worked as "Assistant art director and Colorist" for CrossGen comics, ultimately moving to the companies base in Florida. During 2001, while coloring issues of ''

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'', she was able to continue to color issues of ''Universe X'', ''Planetary'', ''JLA'' and Ellis &

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's ''Ministry of Space'' (Image), as well as working on sections of the ''

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Color Special 2001'' and '' Dark Horse Maverick 2001'', before the CrossGen exclusivity began, and she worked for Mark Alessi alone throughout the entirety of 2002 and 2003.

Post-CrossGen work

Post-CrossGen, Martin again worked with Cassaday on the English-language version of his and Fabien Nury's

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title ''I Am Legion'', before moving (with Cassaday and Hitch) to work primarily for Marvel Comics. In July 2004, she colored the first issue of

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& Cassaday's acclaimed version of the X-Men, ''

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'', and in February 2005 she worked with Bryan Hitch on

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's '' Ultimates 2'' #1. In July of the same year, she worked on the Whedon/ Brett Matthews & Will Conrad comics version of Whedon's '' Serenity'', the

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-released '' Serenity: Those Left Behind''. She has worked on a number of odd issues and covers for comics released by a plethora of companies, including covers for the ''

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'' lead-in

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'', for which she colored the art of

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. In the summer of 2006, she colored the main parts of Paul Jenkins' '' Civil War: Front Line'' for Marvel's "

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" event, and in September 2007 began work on Joseph Michael Straczynski and

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's ''

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''. She is also Art Director for the comics websit
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published by an eclectic band of women." To produce her work, she utilizes

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and a "

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Intuos." In December 2007, she helped color the first issue of

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' ''Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma: Panchatantra'', while continuing to work on ''Thor'' and ''Astonishing X-Men''. May 2008 saw her join

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and

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on the

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series '' War Is Hell: The First Flight of the

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'', while June 2008 saw her debut on the main feature of a Marvel Comics event, coloring the artwork of

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on the

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-written ''

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'' limited series. 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 San Diego Comic Con it was announced that she had signed an exclusive contract with Marvel. In 2010, she became the regular colorist on the second ongoing volume of '' New Avengers''. In June 2008, at Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC, it was announced that she had become a member of

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. At the 2010

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she created and donated "The Wrong Frog" to auction to benefit the

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Awards and recognition

She has been recognized for her work with six

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(2000–2001, 2005–2008) as well as winning two

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s for Best Colorist (2000) and (2002), and the

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between the Eisners in 2001. In August 2014, she was named

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Ambassador, an appointment she holds to the present."Inkwell Awards Ambassadors"
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