Pablo Marcos

Pablo Marcos Ortega, known professionally as Pablo Marcos (born March 31, 1937), and moved with his family to the capital, Lima, at age five.

Political cartoonist Julio Fairle had Marcos fill in for him with spot illustrations in the influential Latin American newspaper La Prensa, which led to more newspaper work. Marcos later contributed caricatures to such weekly political magazines as Rochabus and Zamba Canuta while still an economics major at Peru's University of Lima. After another Creepy story and one in companion magazine Eerie that year, Marcos drew comics exclusively for rival Skywald Publications' Nightmare and Psycho from May 1972 to May 1973 cover dates. before returning to Marvel to do art for issues of The Avengers, The Mighty Thor and other comics. The Jungle Book, King Solomon's Mines, A Little Princess, and The Three Musketeers. His studio similarly illustrated Baronet's "Heroes of America: Illustrated Lives" series, including Heidi, Clara Barton and the American Red Cross and Babe Ruth.

Marcos married Norma Martinez in 1960, and the couple had a child, Judith, that same year. Their second child, daughter Gisella, was born in 1963, and their third, a daughter named Norma like her mother, in 1967. The following year, the Marcos family, including newborn son Pablo, moved to Mexico. In the 1970s, the family relocated again, to New Jersey in the United States. Marcos reduced his workload in September 1985 in order to tend to his severely ill wife, a patient at New York University Medical Center, who died in November 1985. Marcos later married artist Myriam Giraldo.