Marcos Martín

Marcos Martín
Born	Marcos Martín Milanés 1972 Barcelona
Nationality	Spanish
Area(s)	Artist

Marcos Martín (Barcelona, 1972) is a Spanish Eisner Award-winning comic book artist, who usually draws for American comics. Notable works include Batgirl: Year One, Breach, Doctor Strange: The Oath, The Amazing Spider-Man, Daredevil and The Private Eye. He's also known as a prolific cover artist for a number of publishers in the industry, including Marvel and DC Comics.

Marcos Martín became interested in comics at the age of four, reading Spanish translations of the licensed Italian Disney comics and various issues of Kirby/Lee's Fantastic Four that belonged to his older sister. In Martín's own words, "she liked them because <...> Sue Storm would change her hair every once in a while and things were happening besides the battles". He also read translations of Asterix, Tintin and Mafalda, a popular South American comic by Joaquín Salvador Lavado.

Until the age of fourteen, Martín wanted to become a comic book writer, but then he decided it would be easier to break into the industry as an artist. He drew his first comic at the age of seventeen for the school while spending his senior year in Upstate New York; it lasted two issues. Upon returning to Spain, Martín majored in Painting at the University of Fine Arts in Barcelona.

Martín's first professional work was the creation of covers and illustrations for Spanish reprints of various Marvel Comics by Cómics Forum, where he first met fellow artist Javier Pulido (the company was famous for discovering new talents who would become widely known in the American market such as Salvador Larroca and Carlos Pacheco a few years earlier). After University, Martín went back to New York to show his portfolio and get work at either Marvel and DC; eventually, he was assigned on a short story in The Batman Chronicles:

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