Mark Texeira
Mark Texeira is an American comic book artist. Classically trained as a painter, he broke into the comics field in the early 1980s.
Mark Texeira

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- Born
- 17 December 1961
- Birthplace
- New York City, U.S.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- painter, illustrator, artist and inker.
- Fields
- comic.
- Education
- School of Visual Arts and High School of Art and Design.
- Languages
- English.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Born — 17 December 1961 • Birthplace — New York City, U.S. • Art — y • Pencil — y • Ink — y • Alias — Tex • Notable Works — Ghost Rider Wolverine Sabretooth Vampirella • Website — https: marktexeira.com
Career
Career
Mark Texeira was born and raised in New York City. He attended Manhattan's High School of Art and Design, and was granted a Presidential Scholarship at the School of Visual Arts, where he attended for two years before dropping out to pursue a freelance commercial art career. During this period, Texeira took classes at the Art Students League. His oil paintings soon won mentions at the Salmagundi Club and the Society of Illustrators. Comics titles Texeira has contributed to include Masters Of The Universe (1981), DC Power Lords, Jonah Hex and its spinoff Hex (1985–1986), Psi-Force (1986–1987), The Punisher War Journal (1990), Ghost Rider vol. 3 (1990–1992, 1997–1998), and vol. 5, Wolverine vol. 2 (1993), Sabretooth (1993), Spider-Man: Legacy of Evil (1996), Black Panther vol. 3 (1998), Moon Knight vol. 4 (1999), Vampirella, Cyclops (2001), Hercules vol. 4 (2005) and Wolverine vol. 3 (2005).
DC
DC
• Ghosts #108, 111-112 (1982) • The Warlord #53-57 (1982) • Hex #1-9, 11-14 (1985–86) • House of Mystery #308 (1982) • Jonah Hex #89 (1985) • Jonah Hex / Yosemite Sam Special (2017) • Power Lords #1-3 (1983–84) • Swamp Thing Annual #1 (1982) • Stormwatch: Team Achilles #7 (2003)
Image
Image
• Mark Texeira's Pscythe (2004) • The Darkness: Wanted Dead (2003) • Tomb Raider: Scarface's Treasure (2003) • Union #1-4 (1993–94)
Marvel
Marvel
• Akira #37 (painted art) (1995) • Black Panther, vol. 3, #1-4 (1998–99) • Buckaroo Banzai, miniseries, #1-2 (1984) • Clive Barker's Hellraiser #8 (1991) • Cyclops, miniseries, #1-4 (2001–02) • Ghost Rider, vol. 3, #5, 7, 13-19,22-24 (1990–92) • Guardians of the Galaxy #23 (1992) • Hercules, miniseries, #1-5 (2005) • Hulk #5, Annual 2000 (among other artists) (1999–2000) • Marvel Comics Presents (Wolverine/Ghost Rider): #65-71 (1990–91) • Marvel Super Special (Buckaroo Banzai): #33 (1984) • Moon Knight, miniseries, #1-4 (1999) • Psi-Force #1-5, 8, Annual #1 (1986–87) • Punisher #36-37, 42, Annual #1, 3, Summer Special #1 (1990–91) • Punisher War Journal #25-30, 50 (1990–93) • Punisher: Red X-Mas (2005) • Punisher War Zone #37 (1995) • Sabretooth, miniseries, #1-4 (1993) • Sectaurs #1-2 (1985) • Sentry/ X-Men (2001) • Space: Punisher #1-4 (2012) • Spider-Man: Legacy of Evil (painted art) (1996) • Terror Inc. #6 (along with Jorge Zaffino) (1992) • Thor ("Tales of Asgard") #416 (1990) • Thor: Heaven & Earth, miniseries, #2 (2011) • Tomb of Terror (Man-Thing) #1 (2010)
Other publishers
Other publishers
• Conan and the Daughters of Midora (Dark Horse, 2004) • Megalith #1-3 (Continuity, 1989–90) • Vampirella (Pantha feature): #13-17 (Harris, 2002–03) • Vampirella / Pantha: Faster Pussycat (painted art) (Harris, 1997)
Identity
Identity
Mark Texeira is recorded with the occupation visual artist. Established in Bibliothèque nationale de France under 12708494v. Established in Library of Congress under nb2008002358. Recorded as painter, illustrator, artist and inker.
Comic book creator Mark Texeira at the New York Comic Convention in Manhattan, April 20, 2008.
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Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1950
Mark Texeira born at New York City.
Technique and materials
When painting, Texeira begins with a penciled layout on loose paper, and following approval of the layout, will acquire reference photos or hire models to pose for him, in order to "capture the feeling of the sketch as closely as possible." Texeira will then apply a few layers of gesso to a Masonite board, and then carefully lay the drawing out in tight pencil, noting subtleties of skin tone and sharpening the image throughout the process. He will then create the underpainting, in which he applies sepias, or a mix of browns, blacks and whites. Any final changes to the painting, such as aspects of a character's facial expression, are made during this stage. He then carefully and thinly applies acrylic paint to achieve the final colors, lightly so as to not lose the underpainting.
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Mark Texeira”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3294256: Mark Texeira
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Notes from the source article
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- 1."Mark Texeira Interview"
- 2."Guests of Honor," New York Comic-Con #4 program booklet (Reed Exhibitions, 2009), p. 12.
- 3.Texeira entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999.
- 4."Mark Texeria". WizardWorld. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
- 5."ADRENALIZE WITH RED SPIKE ON MARCH 7TH!" Benaroya Publishing. February 1, 2012
- 6.Manning, Matthew K. DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. 214. 2010. 978-0-7566-6742-9.
- 7.DeFalco, Tom. Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. Dorling Kindersley. 229. 2008. 978-0-7566-4123-8.
- 8.Manning, Matthew K. "1990s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 290: "Writer Christopher Priest and artist Mark Texeira...put a new spin on the life of Wakanda Warrior King, Black Panther."
- 9.Judith Salavetz and Spencer Drate. Creating Comics!, 2010, Rockport Publishers, page 156
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