MARK S. INMAN is a prolific, creative character illustrator and typography torturer. During his tenure as a logo illustrator at a major manufacturer, he illustrated more than 650 logos. Dozens made the cut and presently can be found on bicycles sold in major “big-box” retailers. Inman has has personally seen bicycles he designed...

piled up 11 tall in a Marin County family's front yard,

for sale for $4 in a thrift store in Raleigh,

being ridden by a street tough in Oakland with a bandito mask and face-obscuring sunglasses, and

sold out of department store-outfitted box cars railed to the remote populations in the Alaskan tundra.

Served well by curiosity and tenacity in the kitchen, Inman practices both the art and science of cooking for his friends, never turning down a chance to run a BBQ grill or host dinner at his apartment. During his tenure as a Cajun catering sous-chef, he perfected both his Catfish Po’ Boy and Red Beans and Rice, learned to never make a turducken or fried turkey half-heartedly, and observed that lighting a 3-foot-wide pan of Bananas Foster is best done with a fire extinguisher out of sight right by one’s leg.

Inman enjoys the realm of superhero and noir crime genre comic books, graphic novels, and independent web comics. Throughout his illustration and design career, character illustration and development has always been his wheelhouse.

He lives in San Francisco, where he enjoys pursuing his passion of character creation and typography torture, riding his motorcycle, and photographing interesting and colorful food he’s crafted. All separately, of course.