Ernie Chan who used to be Ernie
Chua, changed it legally when he became a US citizen in 1976.
He was 20 when he began doing comics in his native Philippines.
He migrated to America when he turned 30 in 1970.
At DC Comics, he got the break doing mystery short stories then
later got assigned to penciling Batman for two years.
Ernie also did a lot of covers aside from
working on other characters such as Claw, Sandman, Swampthing, Jonah Hex and
others.
At Marvel Comics, he had worked on Dr.
Strange, Dracula, Daredevil, Doc Savage, Thor, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Powerman
and Iron Fist, King Kull, John Carter of Mars
and others, but his longest stint on Conan is where he is best known.
In the 1990's he had dabbled in computer
designs and TV and movie animation. Ernie Chan retired in 2002.
He now keeps himself busy doing art he likes
and sells them online and at comic conventions. He is currently accepting art
commissions. He travels often to China, where he finds tranquility and
contentment.
DC work:
Adventure Comics (Spectre) #437-438; (Seven
Soldiers of Victory) #441 (1975)
Batman #262-264, 267, 269-270, 273-283
(1975–77)
Captain Carrot #18 (1983) Claw the Unconquered
#1-7 (1975–76)
Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love (then,
Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion) #4, 8 (1972)
DC Special Series (Tales of the Unexpected) #4
(1977)
Detective Comics (Elongated Man) #444;
(Batman) #447-449, 451-453, 456, 460-466 (1975–76)
G.I. Combat #209 (1978) Ghosts #4, 10-11, 14,
21, 27, 30, 70 (1972–78)
House of Mystery #203, 251, 254-257, 290
(1972–81)
House of Secrets #117, 124, 126, 129, 133,
137, 141, 143-144, 147-148 (1974–77)
Joker #3 (1975) Jonah Hex #6-9 (1977–78)
Kamandi #49 (1977)
Sandman #2-3 (1975) Secret Society of
Super-Villains #4 (1976)
Secrets of Haunted House #1, 5 (1975) Secrets
of Sinister House #16 (1974)
Superman (Fabulous World of Krypton) #282
(1974) Swamp Thing #24 (1976)
Tales of Ghost Castle #3 (1975) Teen Titans
(Lilith) #43 (1973)
Unexpected #134, 146, 149, 151, 170, 182, 188
(1972–78)
Weird Mystery Tales #14 (1974) Weird War Tales
#17, 24, 26, 29-30, 42, 44, 49, 53-54, 58-59 (1973–78)
Witching Hour #40, 62 (1974–76) World's Finest
Comics (Superman & Batman) #242 (1976)
Marvel work
Chamber of Chills #3 (1973)
Conan the Barbarian (full art): #87, Annual
#9-11 (1978); (inks over other artists pencils): #26-36, 40-43, 70-86, 88-118,
131, 134, 142, 144, 147-153, 156-157, 168, 175, 177-178, 181-185, 187-190,
249-250, 252, 254 (1973–92)
Doc Savage #8 (1977) Haunt of Horror #1 (1974)
King Conan #5, 10 (1981–82)
Kull the Conqueror, vol. 2, #4 (1984) Kull the
Destroyer (previously Kull the Conqueror, vol. 1) #21-29 (1977–78)
Marvel Comics Presents #65 (1990) Marvel
Two-In-One #35-36 (1978)
Power Man and Iron Fist #94-100 (1983)
Savage Sword of Conan #29, 35, 59, 68-69, 71,
76, 87, 111, 113, 116, 119, 122-123, 125, 137, 155, 158, 160-161, 164, 173,
177, 179, 183, 185, 187, 211-212, 214, 227 (1978–94)
Spider-Woman #29 (1980) Tales of the Zombie #4
(1974)
Thor #336 (1983)
For more information about Ernie Chan:
Pablo is available
for Pre-Convention sketches and for more information on Pablo Marcos and his
work, contact: http://pablomarcosart.com
Pablo Marcos is a comic book artist and commercial
illustrator best known as one of his home country's leading cartoonists and for
his work on such popular American comics characters as Batman and Conan the
Barbarian, particularly during the 1970s.
His signature character was
Marvel Comics' the Zombie, for which Marcos drew all but one story in the
black-and-white horror-comics magazine Tales of the Zombie
(1973–75).
American
Comics
Marcos moved to New Jersey in the U.S. in the 1970s. Warren Publishing art
director Billy Graham assigned him his first American-comics work, penciling
and inking the six-page story "The Water World", by writer Buddy Sounders, in
Warren's black-and-white horror-comics magazine Creepy #39 (May 1971). 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. Skywald co-founder Sol Brodsky introduced
Marcos to fellow Peruvian artist Boris Vallejo, who became a mentor.
When Brodsky, who had been Marvel
Comics' production manager, left Skywald to return to Marvel, he brought Marcos
along as an artist and later his staff assistant for roughly two months. Marcos
began drawing covers for such Marvel UK titles featuring such characters and
features as Captain Britain, "Planet of the Apes", and Dracula. Marcos'
naturalistic, "illustrative" style, similar to that of Neal Adams, became a
mainstay of Marvel's black-and-white horror-comics magazines Dracula Lives,
Monsters Unleashed, Tales of the Zombie, Vampire Tales and others, and the
exposure afforded by industry leader Marvel made Marcos a popular artist of the
1970s.
His first color-comics work
in the U.S. was the cover of Marvel's Giant-Size Dracula #2 (Sept. 1974).
Marcos' color-comics interior-art debut came at publisher Martin Goodman's
short-lived Atlas/Seaboard Comics, illustrating the sword-and-sorcery title
Iron Jaw #3 (May 1975). He went on to draw the following issue, plus the Iron
Jaw story in Barbarians #1 and the cover of The Brute #3 (both July 1975)
before the company folded. Marcos next freelanced for DC Comics, drawing
Man-Bat stories in Detective Comics, and working on an issue or two each of
series including Freedom Fighters, Kamandi, Kobra, Secret Society of
Super-Villains, and Teen Titans before returning to Marvel to do art for issues
of The Avengers, The Mighty Thor and other comics. In 1980, Marcos additionally
freelanced for an Italian comic-book series, Tremila Dollari per Ebenezer Cross
Western Story, and created a series, "Dragon" for the Italian magazine Ejea.
By the early 1980s, Marcos was at
work at what would become one of his signature characters, inking penciler John
Buscema on Conan the Barbarian comic books, the black-and-white magazine The
Savage Sword of Conan, and the newspaper comic strip. In September 1985,
however, Marcos reduced his workload in order to attend to his severely ill
wife, a patient at New York University Medical Center, who died on November 6,
1985, age 42. Unable to concentrate on penciling, Marcos solely inked for some
time afterward. He married artist Myriam Giraldo on Dec. 10, 1987. The
following year, Marcos created the character Suko the Eternal Samurai, a
Japanese time-traveler, but was unable to sell the concept. He then illustrated
a long run of DC's TV tie-in series Star Trek: The Next Generation through the
early 1990s, and again from 1993–1994, the year he and his wife moved to Mexico
City, where they opened the comic-book store Dynamic Comics. His last known
comics work was the 14-page, painted story "Om", scripted by Ron Fortier from a
Marcos plot, in Quantum Cat Entertainment's Frank Frazetta Fantasy Illustrated
#7 (July 1999).
In the 1990s and 2000s, the
Pablo Marcos Studio illustrated many books in Waldman Publishing's Great
Illustrated Classics series of young-adult adaptations of such novels as
Gulliver's Travels, The Invisible Man, Jane Eyre, The Jungle Book, King
Solomon's Mines, A Little Princess, and The Three Musketeers. Tremila Dollari
per Ebenezer Cross Western Story, for Lanciostory, Italy and Dragon for Mexican
Publishing Ejea. Also in 1999 drew for Soccer Jr. Magazine, Heavy Metal
Magazine with his owl character Norka. In the ame year drew for Crossgen Comics
after that for Dynemite Entertainment in the series Red Sonja, Army of Darkness
and Savage Tales to the present. His studio similarly illustrated Baronet's
"Heroes of America: Illustrated Lives" series, including Clara Barton and the
American Red Cross and Babe Ruth. He also draws for Sports Illustrated
magazine.
For more information about Pablo Marcos
Pablo Marcos, Master Artist, talks about the Spider