Mark Buckingham

Mark Buckingham (* May 23, 1966 in Clevedon ) is a British comic book artist. Buckingham made ​​primarily as an illustrator of the comic book series Sandman a name.

Life and work

Buckingham began in the 1980s to work as a draftsman for the British publisher 2000AD, for which he designed the series written by John Smith Tyranny Rex. Because of disputes over his pay he separated again from 2000AD.

Since the early 1990s, Buckingham is active as a draftsman for U.S. publishers such as DC Comics and Marvel Comics. For DC designed Buckingham mainly of publishing internal Vertigo imprints, specializing in comics for adult readers series. For Vertigo Buckingham has worked for such series like Sandman, Hellblazer and Fables. It Buckingham particularly frequently worked with the author Neil Gaiman - the figured in 2006 as Buckingham's best man - together.

For Marvel Comics Buckingham was a time as the Pens. So he inkte Chris Bachalos pencil sketches for the series Generation X and Ghost Rider 2099.