Mark Bodé | |
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Mark Bodé in 2019 | |
Born | February 18, 1963 Utica, New York |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Cartoonist, Artist |
Notable works | Cobalt-60 The Lizard of Oz |
Collaborators | Vaughn Bodé, Larry Todd |
Mark Bodé (born February 18, 1963 in Utica, New York) is an American cartoonist. The son of underground comics legend Vaughn Bodē, Mark often produces works similar to the elder Bodē's style. He is best known for his work on Cobalt-60, Miami Mice, and The Lizard of Oz. Bodé has also worked for Heavy Metal magazine and on The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Bodé is also a tattoo artist, spending many years working around Northampton, Massachusetts, although he now lives in California.[1]
Mark Bodé was born February 18, 1963 in Utica, New York, the son of the cartoonist Vaughn Bodē. He began drawing at age three, and even colored in some of his father's artwork with markers. He claims that his father...
“ | brainwashed me into seeing his world, so the characters I started coming up with were heavily influenced by him. Right before he died he told me: 'We'll always be Bode and son. Share my style, but don't get too close.' I couldn't wait to work with him.[1] | ” |
When Bodē was 12 years old and visiting his divorced father Vaughn in San Francisco, Vaughn died. Bodé found his father's body.[2]
Bodé 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, Bodé met Marvel Comics editor Archie Goodwin, who was starting up a new magazine called Epic Illustrated. Bodé became a contributor from 1983 to 1986.[3]
Bodé 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 Bodé, 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]
Bodé was the creator of black-and-white comic Miami Mice, published by Rip Off Press in 1986. Bodé and Todd collaborated again on Rip Off Press' 1987 comic Gyro Force.
From 1988 to 1995 Bodé 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. Bodé 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 Bodé's The Lizard of Oz, a send-up of The Wizard of Oz, starring his father's iconic creation, Cheech Wizard.[1]
Bodé'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.
Bodé 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.[citation needed]
Bodé 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]
Bodé lives in Daly City, California, with his wife, Molly; they have a daughter named Zara.[2]
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:
Miami Vice | |
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One variation of the title screen, which changed the secondary color (present in the word Vice and the glow around the text) throughout the intros | |
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Created by | Anthony Yerkovich |
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Theme music composer | Jan Hammer |
Opening theme | Miami Vice Theme |
Ending theme | Miami Vice Theme |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 5 |
No. of episodes | 112 (list of episodes) |
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Running time | 48 minutes, plus three 96-minute episodes (excluding commercials) |
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Distributor | NBCUniversal Television Distribution |
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Original network | NBC |
Picture format | SDTV 1080p Blu ray |
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Original release | September 16, 1984 – January 25, 1990 |
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Miami Vice is an American crime drama television series created by Anthony Yerkovich and executive produced by Michael Mann for NBC.[1] The series starred Don Johnson as James "Sonny" Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. The series ran for five seasons on NBC from September 16, 1984 to January 25, 1990. The USA Network began airing reruns in 1988, and broadcast an originally unaired episode during its syndication run of the series on January 25, 1990.
Unlike standard police procedurals, the show drew heavily upon 1980s New Wave culture and music. The show became noted for its integration of music and visual effects. It has been called one of the "Top 50 TV Shows".[2][3][4][5] People magazine stated that Miami Vice was the "first show to look really new and different since color TV was invented".[2]
Michael Mann directed a film adaptation of the series, which was released July 28, 2006.
Kevin Eastman | |
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Eastman on April 23, 2009 | |
Born | Kevin Brooks Eastman May 30, 1962 Portland, Maine, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Comic book artist, writer, penciller, inker, editor, publisher, letterer, colorist |
Notable works | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,[1] Heavy Metal, The Melting Pot |
Collaborators | Peter Laird, Eric Talbot, Simon Bisley |
Children | 1 |
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Kevin Brooks Eastman (born May 30, 1962) is an American comic book artist and writer best known for co-creating Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Peter Laird.[2] Eastman is also the editor and publisher of the magazine Heavy Metal.