For the past year, artist Mark Brooks has been delighting fans online with his viral “animated-style” takes on Marvel comics characters. And now that unofficial fan art is becoming official, as the publisher will highlight his designs on covers, starting February.
“Almost a year ago I started drawing my animated Marvel characters as a warm-up every morning just for fun,” Brooks shared via a press release provided to Comic Book Club. “It became a way for me to loosen up and draw something different from my normal style. I never dreamed that over 200 characters later that they would see the light of day as official Marvel artwork. I have so many more to show and even more that I want to draw. I couldn’t be more thrilled to see them grace the covers of some of my favorite books and hope the audience enjoys collecting them as much as I did creating them!”
From the Avengers to the X-Men, the covers will feature on 26 different titles over the course of January. Marvel will also offer the Animated-Style Variant Covers as virgin variant covers, without those pesky logos.
You can check out a ton of the covers below (click for larger versions), as well as debut dates, and what titles they’ll appear on.
On Sale 2/5
AVENGERS #23 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS – 75960620426702316
PHOENIX #8 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS – 75960620959000821
SCARLET WITCH #9 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS – 75960620828900916
UNCANNY X-MEN #10 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS – 75960620917001021
WOLVERINE #6 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS – 75960620841800621
On Sale 2/12
CABLE: LOVE AND CHROME #2 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
DEADPOOL #11 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
IMMORTAL THOR #20 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
MAGIK #2 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
PSYLOCKE #4 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
X-MEN #11 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
On Sale 2/19
EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #6 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
INCREDIBLE HULK #22 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
LAURA KINNEY: WOLVERINE #3 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
MYSTIQUE #5 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
NYX #8 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
STORM #5 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
WEAPON X-MEN #1 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
X-FACTOR #7 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
X-FORCE #8 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
On Sale 2/26
CAPTAIN AMERICA & VOLSTAGG #1 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
IRON MAN #5 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
SABRETOOTH: THE DEAD DON’T TALK #3 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
WEST COAST AVENGERS #4 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
X-MEN #12 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
On Sale 3/26
INFINITY WATCH #3 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS
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