Shawn Martinbrough

Shawn Martinbrough is the author of "How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling" by Penguin Random House and an Eisner Award nominated artist whose comic book projects include; "Batman: Detective Comics", "DMZ", "Luke Cage Noir", "The Black Panther: Man Without Fear" and "Hellboy".

Characters co-created by Shawn are featured in "Zack Snyder's Justice League", "Deadpool", "Batman: Gotham Knights" and the television series; "GOTHAM", "The GIFTED" and "BATWOMAN".

Shawn is the artist of “Thief of Thieves”, the graphic novel series co-created with Robert Kirkman (“The Walking Dead”, "INVINCIBLE") and the Eisner nominated "Prométhée 13:13", published by comiXology / Delcourt / ABLAZE.

Shawn is a Vanity Fair contributor and the writer of "Red Hood" for DC Comics. His two part story and the upcoming six part sequel, revisit the Gotham City neighborhood of "The Hill" and introduce multiple new characters to the Batman Universe.

Shawn is a co-author of “Judge Kim and the Kids’ Court”, the new children's book series from Simon & Schuster and the artist of "Like Lava in My Veins", the upcoming children's book with NYTimes best-selling author Derrick D. Barnes for Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin. Shawn is currently writing and illustrating a creator owned graphic novel for Megascope / Abrams Books.

Working with Oscar-winning screenwriter, Executive Producer Geoffrey Fletcher and ABC News, Shawn created storyboards and art for “Mike Tyson: The Knockout”. The four hour documentary features animated recreations of Tyson’s life and is available on ABC and Hulu.

Shawn's TED Talk can be seen on Youtube.

www.shawnmartinbrough.com / @smartinbrough