Mark Bodé Explained

Birth Date:18 February 1963
Birth Place:Utica, New York, U.S.
Cartoonist:y
Art:y
Collaborators:Vaughn Bodē, Larry Todd
Notable Works:Cobalt-60
The Lizard of Oz

Mark Bodē (born February 18, 1963) is an American cartoonist. The son of underground comics legend Vaughn Bodē, Mark shares the Bodē family style and perpetuates many of his late father's creations as well as his own works . He is best known for his work on Cobalt-60, Miami Mice, and The Lizard of Oz. Bodē has also worked for Heavy Metal magazine and on The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Bodē is also a tattoo and graffiti artist, spending many years working around Northampton, Massachusetts, although he now lives in California.[1]

Early life

Mark Bodē was born February 18, 1963, in Utica, New York, the son of the cartoonist Vaughn Bodē and Barbara Falcon. He began drawing at age three, and was encouraged to draw throughout his childhood.[1]

When Bodē was 12 years old and visiting his divorced father Vaughn in San Francisco, he discovered the dead body of his father after the latter had died as the result of autoerotic asphyxiation.[2]

Bodē attended art school in Oakland, California. He also studied animation at San Francisco State University. In 1982, he attended the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City as a fine arts major.

While attending SVA, Bodē met Marvel Comics editor Archie Goodwin, who was starting up a new magazine called Epic Illustrated. Bodē became a contributor from 1983 to 1986.[3]

Career

Comics

Bodē has completed and expanded upon many of his father's works.[2] As a 15-year-old he colored the unfinished work Zooks, the First Lizard in Orbit for Heavy Metal.[2] [4] In 1984 he expanded and illustrated Cobalt 60, originally created as a short story by his father in 1968. Written by Larry Todd[5] and fully painted by Mark Bodē, the story was serialized in Epic Illustrated, and later collected by The Donning Company/Starblaze Graphics and re-published as a four-issue limited series by Tundra Publishing.[6]

Bodē was the creator of black-and-white comic Miami Mice, published by Rip Off Press in 1986. Bodē and Todd collaborated again on Rip Off Press' 1987 comic Gyro Force.

From 1988 to 1995 Bodē wrote and drew comics with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman. The two collaborated on several issues for Mirage Studios, including issues #18 & #32. Bodē was also the solo creator on the special edition Times Pipeline of TMNT. The Cobalt 60 saga was completed and was published as four graphic novels with Eastman's company Tundra Publishing.

In 2004, Fantagraphics published Bodē's The Lizard of Oz, a send-up of The Wizard of Oz, starring his father's iconic creation, Cheech Wizard.[1]

Bodē's anthology work includes Subway Art, Spray Can Art, Mugs and Mascots, Burning New York, Broken Windows, Dondi White, Aerosol Kingdom, Picturing the Modern Amazon (by New Museum books), Jack Kirby's Heroes and Villains, 15 Years of Heavy Metal, 20 Years of Heavy Metal, and Comic Book Superstars.

Tattooing and spray can art

Bodē took up the art of tattooing in 1994. He trained under the guidance of tattoo artists Al Valenta, from western Massachusetts, and Myke Maldonado, from New York.

Bodē also took up spray can art, and has done many mural tributes to his father's characters over the years.[2] In his career as a spraycan artist, he has done mural work globally in London, Spain, Italy, and Germany as well as locally in his hometown of San Francisco.[7]

Personal life

Bodē lives in Daly City, California, with his wife, Molly; they have a daughter named Zara.[2]

Publications

Comics

Mark Bodē has contributed cover illustrations and interior artwork to numerous magazines, including Penthouse, Hustler and Gauntlet. He also designed the covers for some of those magazines. In addition to this the following comics have been published:

Comic books

Contributions to anthologies and comic magazines

Other

Exhibits

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: . May 31, 2004 . Frucci . Angela . Following a Wiz to a Far-Out Oz; A Son Completes the Legacy Of an Underground Cartoonist . April 22, 2008 . February 13, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240213031539/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/31/books/following-wiz-far-oz-son-completes-legacy-underground-cartoonist.html . live .
  2. Web site: Harmanci, Reyhan. In Finishing Comics, a Son Completes a Legacy. The New York Times. en-US. live. July 1, 2010. November 5, 2022. July 5, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100705140548/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/us/02bcculture.html.
  3. Web site: GCD :: Story Search Results. January 1, 2023. www.comics.org. January 1, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230101094541/https://www.comics.org/credit/name/Mark%2520Bode/sort/chrono/. live.
  4. Web site: Artist Bio - Mark Bodē. https://web.archive.org/web/20140508224846/http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist-bios/artist-bio-mark-bod.html . May 8, 2014 . Fantagraphics . May 8, 2014.
  5. Todd was Vaughn Bodē's friend and collaborator in the 1960s on projects for Eerie, Creepy, and Vampirella magazines.
  6. Book: Bodē, Vaughn . Todd . Larry . Mark. Bodē. . Tundra Pub . 1992 . 1-879450-35-6 . Northampton, MA.
  7. Web site: Pompetti, Vincent. Mark Bodē interview. January 25, 2011. January 1, 2023. en-US. September 26, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220926131852/http://www.lectrics.fr/blog/mark-bode-interview-2/. live.

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