He signed an exclusive contract with Marvel the same year. He then worked on Cable & Deadpool for two issues before moving on to illustrate the first arc of Amazing Fantasy (vol.2) featuring Anya Corazon. In 2004, Brooks penciled and provided the cover art for a number of issues of Marvel Age Spider-Man, his first collaboration with Marvel. the Transformers for Devil's Due Publishing, and Ultraman Tiga for Dark Horse Comics. His other early work includes Transformers: More Than Meet the Eyes for Dreamwave Productions, G.I Joe vs. His first cover art was a variant for the Atlas #1 one-shot for Avatar Press. He has produced designs for a line of Marvel figures manufactured by Sideshow Collectibles.īrooks' first published work was in 10th Muse, written by Marv Wolfman for Image Comics, in which he penciled the Atlas back-up stories in 2001.

For his cover art, he was awarded the Inkpot Award in 2014. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Mark Brooks is an American comic book artist.

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