Marvel Artist Marie Severin Dies at 89 - 2018-08-30 9:53 PM
Marvel Artist Marie Severin Dies at 89
Marie Severin was a true comics icon. She used to do cover layouts for Kirby because he thought she was better at it then himself. He was right.
- Marie Severin, a comic book artist and colorist best known for her work on Marvel titles including The Incredible Hulk, Kull the Conqueror and the humor title Not Brand Ecch, has died. She was 89.
Severin’s death followed her move into hospice care following a second stroke his week; she suffered her first in 2007. Her death was announced on Facebook by longtime friend and former Marvel staffer Irene Vartanoff.
Severin initially entered the industry as a colorist for EC Comics when her older brother, the late comic book artist John Severin, was working for the company and needed someone to color his pages. She would go on to color titles across the company’s line until it folded, then ended up at the nascent Marvel Comics in the late 1950s, when she served as a production and paste-up artist and colorist before going on to pencil and ink stories in her own right. She served as Marvel’s head colorist until 1972, when she left the position to concentrate on penciling and inking.
In addition to her interior artwork, Severin also designed the original costume for Spider-Woman and designed and illustrated merchandise for Marvel’s Special Projects division. In the 1980s, she was one of the core artists on the short-lived “Star Comics” line, aimed at younger readers.
Marie Severin was a true comics icon. She used to do cover layouts for Kirby because he thought she was better at it then himself. He was right.
