Marie Severin

Marie Severin
Marie Severin by Michael Netzer
Born	(1929-08-21) August 21, 1929 (age 87) East Rockaway, New York
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Penciller, Inker, Colourist
Notable works	Doctor Strange, Sub-Mariner, Hulk, Not Brand Echh
Awards	1974 Shazam Award: Best Penciller (Humor Division); Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame, 2001

Marie Severin (born August 21, 1929) is an American comic book artist and colorist best known for her work for Marvel Comics and the 1950s' EC Comics.

She was inducted into the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame in 2001. Her brother John Severin was also an artist who worked for EC and Marvel.

Marie Severin was born in East Rockaway, New York, on Long Island, the second and last child of a father born in Oslo, Norway, who immigrated to the United States at age 3, and a mother, Peg, from Syracuse, New York, whose heritage was Irish. Her older brother, John Severin, was born in 1922. The family moved to Brooklyn, New York City, when Marie was 4. She attended a Catholic grammar school and then the all-girl Bishop McDonnell Memorial High School. The family lived in an apartment in the Bay Ridge neighborhood at the time; it is uncertain if this was the family's original Brooklyn locale from Severin's childhood or if the family moved to that neighborhood in the interim. Due to the high school's staggered schedule, Severin's class graduated in January 1948, rather than in the spring as typical.

Severin grew up in an artistic household where her father, a World War I veteran, eventually became a designer for the fashion company Elizabeth Arden during the 1930s. In her teens, Severin took "a couple of months" of cartooning and illustration classes, and attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn "for one day and said, 'This is a college', and I wanted to draw and make money". Her first job was doing clerical work for an insurance company in downtown Manhattan "for a couple of years" while still living at home. She continued living there after her father died.