Mark McKenna has been a comic book creator for 38 years, having worked for both Marvel and DC comics on the likes of The X Men and Spider Man to Batman and The Justice League. There are almost 1000 comics that list Mark’s name in the credits and 12,000 pages that bear his ink lines on them.
Mark’s work can be seen in Legendary Picture Books PACIFIC RIM movie prequel as well as Dark Horse Comic’s Star Wars-The Old Republic: The Lost Suns. In 2012 his work on the online web comic titled “Star Wars: Blood of the Empire“ was collected into an 84 page trade paperback and was the lynchpin for the 2012 released Bio-ware online video game, The Old Republic. DC and Marvel have collected Mark’s work in multitudes of titles such as Doom Patrol, Deadpool Classics and Exiles.
His children’s book series Banana Tail and Friends is a labor of love that he created when his daughter was four and had a newborn son. His most recent Banana Tail project, Banana Tail and the Checkerboard Jungle was published last year and is the 5th overall published Banana Tail book and the third in the storybook line. The other Banana Tail titles include; Banana Tail, Banana Tail’s Tales and Activities, Banana Tail’s Colorful Adventure and The BOOnana Tail Halloween Special(comic).
Mark has also created, written, inked and published the Sci Fi/Horror COMBAT JACKS comic book mini series. The mini series was collected into a 144 page COMBAT JACKS hard cover collection… available under Mark’s Banana Tale Press imprint.
