Mark Buckingham

Mark Buckingham
	Mark Buckingham
Born	Clevedon
Nationality	British
Area(s)	Penciller
Notable works	Marvelman; Fables
Awards	Eisner Award for "Best Artist/Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team" (2007)

Mark Buckingham is a British comic book artist. He is best known for his work on Marvelman and Fables.

[edit] Biography

Born in Clevedon, he debuted on Tyranny Rex by John Smith, but his work was cut short by a payment dispute with the publishers of 2000 AD.^{[citation needed]}

He is most famous for his work on Marvelman (Miracleman, in the USA), Hellblazer,^[1] and Fables, including a story in the original graphic novel 1001 Nights of Snowfall.^[2] His Marvel work includes inking Chris Bachalo's pencils on Generation X, Ghost Rider 2099, and penciling Paul Jenkins's run on Peter Parker: Spider-Man. For DC Comics, Buckingham has inked the two Death miniseries.

He was married in Gijón, Spain in August 2006 to journalist and TV newscaster Irma Page. His best man was Neil Gaiman.^[3]

Buckingham currently resides in Spain.

Hellblazer #18-22 (pencils, with Jamie Delano and inks by Alfredo Alcala, Vertigo, 1989)
Mortigan Goth: Immortalis (with Nick Vince, Marvel UK, 4-issue mini-series, 1993-1994)
Fables #6-10, 14-27, 30-33, 36-38, 40-45, 48-50, 52-56, 59-63, 65-69, 71- (with writer Bill Willingham and inks by Steve Leialoha, Vertigo, 2002-ongoing)

2003: Won Eisner Award for "Best New Series", for Fables #19–27: "March of the Wooden Soldiers" (with Willingham and Leialoha)
2005: Won Eisner Award for "Best Serialized Story", for Fables #19–27: "March of the Wooden Soldiers" (with Willingham and Leialoha)
2006: Won Eisner Award for "Best Serialized Story", for Fables #36–38, 40–41: "Return to the Homelands" (with Willingham and Leialoha)
2007: Won Eisner Award for "Best Artist/Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team", for Fables (with Leialoha)

^ Irvine, Alex (2008), "John Constantine Hellblazer", in Dougall, Alastair, The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 102-111, ISBN 0-7566-4122-5, OCLC 213309015
^ Irvine, Alex (2008), "Fables", in Dougall, Alastair, The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 72-81, ISBN 0-7566-4122-5, OCLC 213309015
^ "this post from Gaiman's journal". http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2006/08/about-to-launch-its-first-attack.html. Retrieved on 2006-08-14.