Mark Pennington

Mark Pennington worked at Hasbro on G.I.Joe as the second full-time figure designer from December 31st, 1985 to August 1988. In that time he helped develop over 75 figures. Having scratched the G.I.Joe itch, Mark decided to leave Hasbro in August of 1988 to pursue a career in illustration. Mark "wanted to do comics, and illustration and fantasy art." Mark quickly found success in comics, earning an Eisner Award nomination for best inker in 1993. Mark became a prolific professional comic book artist. He is probably best known for his work on Shade, the Changing Man, which earned him a nomination for best inker in the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards in 1993. He has worked on countless titles for Dark Horse, DC, Marvel, Image, and Valiant – including Batman, Catwoman, Death, Detective Comics, Hellblazer, JLA, Sandman, Spawn, Wetworks, X-Men, and many more.

In addition to creating comics, Mark taught life drawing at the Kubert School for a couple years before comics really took over his professional life. Since then he's also created painted card art for the Legend of the Five Rings, and other pirate-themed and samurai-themed card games.