Mark Schultz has been cartooning and illustrating for 40 years. He is best known as the creator of the award-winning speculative adventure comic book Xenozoic Tales, which adapted to television in 1993 as the animated series Cadillacs and Dinosaurs.
He was born outside Philadelphia, PA in 1955, but spent much of his childhood in the Pittsburgh, PA area, experiencing his first dinosaur encounter at that city’s Carnegie Museum of Natural History and developing a lifelong attachment to the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball club.
Mark graduated from Kutztown State University in 1977 with a BFA in painting and thereafter spent several years providing illustrations for how-to books and local advertisements. In 1986, his lifelong interest in comic storytelling led him to develop his Xenozoic property.
The first Xenozoic adventure originally appeared in the eighth issue of Kitchen Sinks Press’ anthology magazine, Death Rattle. Reader and critical responses were positive, leading Kitchen Sink to offer Mark his own book: Xenozoic Tales premiered in February of 1987. The Xenozoic stories have remained continuously in print, now published by Flesk Publications.
Mark is also widely recognized for co-creating and co-writing SubHuman, an underwater adventure series published by Dark Horse Comics, and for scripting DC Comics’ Superman, Man of Steel for five-years. He has also written and/or drawn many other popular fictional icons, including Flash Gordon, Tarzan, The Spirit, Star Wars, Aliens and Predator. He has written the Prince Valiant newspaper comic strip since 2004.
As an illustrator, Mark has depicted the adventures of Robert E. Howard’s Conan of Cimmeria for the highly regarded Wandering Star/Del Rey editions of Howard’s works, and illustrated the autobiography of the famed painter of prehistoric life, Charles R. Knight. His own heavily illustrated novella, Storms at Sea, was published by Flesk in 2015.
He has written a DC Justice League novel The Flash: Stop Motion, published by Pocket Books, and a science primer graphic novel The Stuff of Life: a Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA for Hill and Wang.
He is currently working on a sequel to Storms at Sea, as well as continuing to script Prince Valiant.
