Benjamin Marra is the notorious, controversial and influential comic creator of the comic books NIGHT BUSINESS, GANGSTA RAP POSSE and BENJAMIN MARRA'S THE INCREDIBLY FANTASTIC ADVENTURES OF MAUREEN DOWD (A WORK OF SATIRE AND FICTION). Marra has been compared to mainstream master Jim Steranko, underground comix legend R. Crumb and the Beat writers. His art beyond the cutting edge. His work is in the cut itself.
His illustration work has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, The Society of Publication Designers and American Illustration. In 2006 he was named as one of the Art Directors Club's Young Guns.
Some of the publications and companies he's done illustration for include Playboy, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Marvel Comics, Vice, Radar, Paper, Nylon, Widen+Kennedy and McCann-Erickson.
Marra is the founder of TRADITIONAL COMICS and co-founder of the underground illustration and design journal MAMMAL.
Marra received a B.F.A in Illustration from Syracuse University, where he also studied at their art program in Florence, Italy. He received an M.F.A. in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts.
His other previous jobs have been: a lifeguard, cashier at Toys 'R' Us during the holiday season, park ranger assistant, mover, bus boy and bartender.
He lives in Brooklyn.
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| CLIENTS
· COLLABORATORS |
Domestic: Rolling Stone Magazine, Playboy Magazine, Radar Magazine, Paper Magazine, Nylon
Magazine, Marvel Comics, Oni Press, Vice Magazine, Time Out Chicago, Smash Magazine, WK12, Widen+Kennedy, Rachel Roy, Fuse Marketing, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Op-Ed Page, Philadelphia Citypaper, R5 Productions, McGraw-Hill Book Publishers,
Gannett Newspapers, The Journal News, Rabid Rabbit, [Im]perfect Articles
International: Esquire Magazine (Russia), Voxer Magazine (Belgium), Large Magazine
(Australia), Bongout Design Group (Germany), Code Magazine (Holland),
Computer Blue (England), Bang Your Head (Belgium), Plin Tub' (Belgium),
Zeke Bazaar (Belgium), Violator (Brazil) |
| HONORS |
The Undiscovered Letter Finalist, The Art Directors Club, 2008
Gold or Silver Medal Finalist, Society of Publication Designers, 2008
Pro Show 4, 3x3
Illustration, 2007
Young Guns 5, The Art Directors Club, 2006
American Illustration 24, 2005
Society of Illustrators Student Show and Competition 1999 |
| EXHIBITIONS |
"Monster Show 4," DOMY Books, Austin and Houston, 2009
"Post It," Giant Robot, Los Angeles, 2009
"Resist Time," Vice Magazine Germany, Berlin, Germany 2009
"Dollypop," World of Wonder Storefront Gallery, Los Angeles, 2008
"i
am 8-bit," World of Wonder Storefront Gallery, Los Angeles, 2008
"The Undiscovered Letter," The Art Directors Club, New York, 2008
"Tree Trimmings," JFllynn Gallery, Costa Mesa, 2008
"i
am 8-bit," Gallery 1988, Los Angeles, 2007
"Fumetto Internationales Comix-Festival," Fumetto, Luzern, 2007
"Plin Tub'," Brussels, 2007 (click
here)
"Young Guns 5," The Art Directors Club, New York, 2006
"M.F.A. Thesis Show," P.P.O.W., New York, 2003
"Turning Page Book Show," AIGA, New York, 2002 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY
· PRESS |
Fly by Night: The New Art of the Club Flyer, Craig McCarthy, Thames & Hudson, 2008
ComicsComics, June 17, 2008
The Morning News, February 1, 2008
Lost
at E Minor, November 16, 2007
Philly Edge, April 11, 2007
Graphic Design USA Magazine, February 2007
Code Magazine feature, Autumn 2006
8- Page Feature in Voxer Magazine, October 2005
Launching the Imagination, by Mary Stewart, McGraw-Hill, 2002 |
| COMMISSIONS |
I'm
available for commissioned pieces.
Please email me for details. |
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