Mark Bodé

Mark Bodé was born on February 18, 1963, the son of underground comix legend Vaughn Bodé. Growing up immersed in his father’s bold, psychedelic linework, Mark naturally absorbed the family style and, after Vaughn’s death, became the primary steward of his visual universe. He is best known for carrying forward *Cobalt-60*, a dystopian sci-fi saga, and for creating *Miami Mice* and *The Lizard of Oz*. His career spans the early 1980s through the 2000s, with credits as artist, colorist, inker, letterer, and writer across about twenty issues. His most frequent collaborators included publishers and writers who kept the Bodé aesthetic alive in *Heavy Metal* magazine and on *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* projects. Outside comics, Bodé worked for years as a tattoo and graffiti artist in Northampton, Massachusetts, before relocating to California. His legacy is that of a devoted inheritor—one who preserved his father’s distinctive, rubbery cartooning while adding his own energetic, streetwise touch.