Artist Biography Pablo Marcos is considered to be one of the most popular artists of Marvel’s Golden Age of Horror. He is best known for his extraordinary work in " Tales of the Zombie" and "Conan the Barbarian". His expressive and intense figures within their serenely detailed backgrounds create a sensuous experience. Pablo was born in Laran Chincha Alta, Peru on March 31st 1937. He studied art as an apprentice under the guidance of Juan Rivera Saavedra in Lima at the early age of ten. Juan Rivera exposed Pablo to many Peruvian artists as well as introducing him to the works created in Argentina, Chile, Italy and the United States. His ability to grasp the aesthetics of artists like Burne Hogarth, Hal Foster, Hugo Pratt, Alex Raymond and Arturo Del Castillo got Pablo recognized by political cartoonist Julio Fairle at the young age of 13. Pablo substituted for Fairle on the popular political newspaper La Prensa doing political spot illustrations and was quickly recommended to do regular commission work on a mainstream Peruvian newspaper. Later Pablo acquired work for two more regular political magazine jobs at Rochabus and Zamba Conuto, while acquiring a major in economic science at the University of Lima in Peru. By 1960 Pablo Marcos married Norma Martinez and had his first child, Judith. He began work, later that year, as Art Director on the newspaper Expreso in which he was hired to sketch several police and political events, airplane accidents, earthquakes, and historical events. In 1963 his second Gisella was born while Pablo was working on an evening paper edition called Extra, doing the paper’s comic strip called James Bond 007. Soon after, he was also working on Estampa, the weekly supplement to Expreso. In early 1965, Carlos Sanchez, Expreso’s editor assigned Pablo to cover a camera banned sentencing of a prisoner at the city’s jail. The rapist was found guilty and was executed by a firing squad, which Pablo detailed in an illustration for the newspaper. The illustration brought him national recognition from all the major Peruvian publishers. Pablo’s newfound fame brought him many more high profile advertising projects and political spot illustration work from other publishers. The Peruvian publishers commissioned him to cover the Seven Day War, the capture and the death of Che Guevara, the major quakes of Peru and Italy and the world’s greatest sport-soccer. Norma, Pablo’s third daughter, was born in 1967 and Pablo traveled to Mexico on vacation and was recommended to meet Marino Sagastegul at the EditorialNovoro, who quickly offered him freelance illustration jobs. By 1968 Pablo was working on the series for Novoro Called Legends of America, as he his family and his newborn son, Pablo, moved to Mexico. In 1970 Pablo moved to New Jersey, and met with Israel Waldman, the owner of Skywald publishing, in New York. He worked on several illustration projects with Sol Brodsky and developed a lifelong friendship. Sol Brodsky also introduced him to fellow Peruvian artist and mentor Boris Vallejo. Boris guided Pablo professionally and helped him with his immigration status and the English language. Sol also was working at Marvel Entertainment, and asked Pablo to collaborate with him on several projects and later became his staff assistant. Stan Lee and Sol Brodsky were now producing weekly British comics in which Pablo worked on the color and zip —a-tone processing. He also worked on many comic books covers such as Captain Britain, Planet of the Apes, Hulk, Dracula at Marvel while doing freelance work for the Italian book called Tremia Dollari Per Ebenezer Cross Western Story. Marcos was hitting his stride, and when Steve Gerber wrote Tales of the Zombie, Marvel brought Pablo on board to do the sequential artwork. D.C. was also taking notice and began sending consistent inking work. By 1982, Pablo Marcos undertook a second fully artistic task when he accepted sequential work doing Dragon for Ejea Magazine. After five 32 page books, Pablo had to end his run to begin work on Kull and later the Adventures of Conan series. He also began inking over John Buscema, and was doing the Conan newspaper strip as well. Pablo Marcos had established himself as an iconic illustrator, receiving praise from fans and friends, but in September of 1985, he began to decrease his workload and withdrew from many high profile projects to attend to his severely ill wife. Marvel, D.C. and other publishers understood Pablo’s troubles and they were very accommodating by offering him secured inking work. He was now spending long days at the New York University Medical Center to be at the side of his loving wife. In November, Norma lost her fight with her illness and passed away. Devastated by his wife’s death; Pablo immersed himself in his work more than ever. In the summer of 1987 Pablo was introduced to artist Myriam Giraldo, who became his assistant on many of his Projects and by December 10th they would become husband and wife. He was now doing full illustrations on the popular Star Trek the Next Generation graphic novel for D.C. Soon after that he would write and illustrate his first full story in the pages of Heavy Metal magazine called Norka. The 1990’s and the new millennium has brought even more high profile Illustration and advertising projects such as Sports Illustrated for Kids, Soccer Jr. magazine, Crossgen comics, and a Classics Illustrated book series for Waldman Publishing that he started in the 1970’s. This website, Illustrated visions, is a testament to his versatility, his love of art, and his hard work ethic. This website provides and diverse look into Pablo’s career. The work presented is a fraction of extensive work, butI think, demonstrates Pablo’s unique style and wide artisticrange of in the medium of print. As a colleague and friend, it is my honor to write this biography and introduce others to the work he has done.He is a constant inspiration and a guiding spirit to me. CAESAR