Mark Bloodworth is an artist and storyteller. He created the critically favored, urban crime comic book, Nightstreets for Arrow Comics during "The Black and White Independent Explosion of the Eighties" from 1985-89. In early 1990, he took over art chores on another Arrow title called Deadworld. After a few issues Mark had taken over both art and writing chores on the book. In 1991, he was contracted by Marvel Comics to create character design, spot illos, and story art for Clive Barker's: Hellraiser. Throughout the rest of that decade and into the new millennium he illustrated many titles, such as, Cheerleaders From Hell, Jack The Ripper, Raven Chronicles, The Ripper Legacy (from Caliber Comics), the critically hailed Abel, written by William Harms (from AiT/Planet Lar), and three plates for Zorro: The Masters Edition, Vol 1 (from Pulp Adventures). Mark's artwork can be seen in his Midnight Mortuary, an homage to the great black & white comic monster magazines of the 1970's, Deadworld Chronicles (from Desperado), as well as working with talents Shannon Denton, Christopher Long, and Rob Worley on a series of children's books called Short Tales (released through the Magic Wagon wing of ABDO Publishing).
For over a two decades working as a commercial artist providing services, concept art, presentation graphics, rendered images, logos, and a mountain of storyboards for many advertising, apparel and marketing agencies from coast to coast.
In the past few years Mark has been creating original sketch card artwork for various series released from 5finity, Breygent, and Galans Sketch Cards.
Most recently, Mark's artwork can be seen in the 2011 original graphic novel Deadworld: The Last Siesta (from IDW).
© 2012 Mark Bloodworth