Happy Birthday: Mark Wheatley

ByAaron Rosenberg

Born in 1954, Mark Wheatley has made a career of creating clever and innovative comic books. He is probably  best known for his 1984 First Comics series Mars, the 1994 Vertigo mini-series Breathtaker, and his Insight Studios series Radical Dreamer and Frankenstein Mobster, but his list of titles extends far beyond that impressive handful.

Wheatley founded Insight in 1978 as an illustration and photography source, but in 1980 Marc Hempel joined him and they expanded the studio to include comic books and comic book production work.

Wheatley has won numerous awards, including the Inkpot, the Speakeasy, the Gem, and the Mucker. In 2008 he was a guest lecturer at the Library of Congress. Wheatley currently runs Insight and writes and illustrates the series EZ Street for ComicMix.

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  3. Happy Birthday, Mark! I've been a fan since the days of Mars and Blood of the Innocent. EZ Street is complex, nuanced, moving and beautiful. Easily as good as any comics Wheatley's made and one of the best comics on ComicMix! And that is saying something.

  4. Happy Birthday, Mark! I've been a fan since the days of Mars and Blood of the Innocent. EZ Street is complex, nuanced, moving and beautiful. Easily as good as any comics Wheatley's made and one of the best comics on ComicMix! And that is saying something.

  5. Happy Birthday, Mark! I've been a fan since the days of Mars and Blood of the Innocent. EZ Street is complex, nuanced, moving and beautiful. Easily as good as any comics Wheatley's made and one of the best comics on ComicMix! And that is saying something.

  11. In fact I was out having such a great day yesterday that I missed seeing this post – so thanks one and all!

  12. In fact I was out having such a great day yesterday that I missed seeing this post – so thanks one and all!

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