Joe Mad is one of those artists that always catch my eye. His style is out of proportion almost Manga, in fact Joe is the artist that really helped make that manga style popular in the main stream comic world. So her it is a nice little gallery of his work, I hope you all enjoy it and become as big a fan as I have been.

Joseph Madureira (born December 3, 1974, in Philadelphia.), often simply called Joe Mad!, is an American comic book artist, best known for his work on Marvel Comics’ Uncanny X-Men and his creator-owned comic book Battle Chasers.

Biography
In 1991, Marvel hired Madureira as an intern at the age of 16. His first published work was an eight-page story for the anthology series Marvel Comics Presents, starring Northstar. In the next few years, Madureira completed various assignments for Marvel’s sprawling X-Men franchise. He became the regular penciller on Uncanny X-Men in 1994 and soon rose to become one of the most popular artists in the industry. As the Uncanny X-Men artist, Madureira designed the Age of Apocalypse uniforms, new manga-inspired costumes for the regular title (after Onslaught), as well as the Avengers’ brief new designs after The Crossing.

He left Uncanny X-Men in 1997 to work on his own series Battle Chasers for DC Comics’ creator-owned Cliffhanger imprint. Nine issues of the contantly behind schedule comic were released before it was cancelled. Joe then went on to work for the video game industry. Starting with the start-up company Tri-Lunar, he created concept art on a game called Dragonkind which was cancelled when Tri-Lunar folded. He then went on to work for NC Soft, on two games, Exarch (which was also cancelled) and Tabula Rasa. During this time, he would occasionally contribute cover artwork for gaming magazines and comic books.

In early August 2005 it was revealed that Madureira would return to the comic industry, working on The Ultimates Volume 3 with Jeph Loeb for Marvel Comics.

Impact
Madureira was dubbed one of the ten most influential comic artists of all time in the May 2002 issue of Wizard magazine. Dreamwave Productions founder Pat Lee said of Madureira, “when people think of the late ’90s in comics, they will think of Joe Madureira.”