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Benjamin Marra (born 1977 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Grammy-nominated American illustrator and comic-book artist. His work has been mostly self-published under his own imprint, Traditional Comics, and mainly consists of black and white comics, printed on low-quality paper for a relatively low price. His drawing style is reminiscent of such artists asPaul Gulacy, Herb Trimpe and Spain Rodriguez, as well as the work of pinball machine graphic illustrators.

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dbo:abstract	Benjamin Marra (born 1977 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Grammy-nominated American illustrator and comic-book artist. His work has been mostly self-published under his own imprint, Traditional Comics, and mainly consists of black and white comics, printed on low-quality paper for a relatively low price. His drawing style is reminiscent of such artists asPaul Gulacy, Herb Trimpe and Spain Rodriguez, as well as the work of pinball machine graphic illustrators. The first comic book to leave an impression on Marra was Darick Robertson's Space Beaver, a hyper-violent science-fiction story featuring an anthropomorphic beaver, which has served as an inspiration for his later work. Marra's artistic training began at the School of Visual Arts, where his instructors included David Mazzucchelli, and where alternative comics artist Dash Shaw was a classmate. In 1998, Marra traveled to Florence, Italy to study painting. Of his own art style, Marra says, "I kind of see what I’m doing as like what the Stooges and the Ramones were doing as a reaction to that big, self-indulgent arena rock aesthetic. Making it really raw, really punk rock, really earthy, DIY, really gut-level, very basic in its execution. Not a lot of technical efficiency. Just, like, three-chord power pop songs. Really short. It’s supposed to hit you really fast, and it’s got a really emotional basis instead of a technical basis. It’s really based on people’s emotional response.". Marra's comics and illustrations have appeared in such diverse media as Playboy, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Marvel Comics, Fantagraphics, Vice, Radar, Paper, Nylon, Widen+Kennedy and McCann-Erickson. He also drew the cover art for pioneering cloud rapper Lil B's visionary mixtape 6 Kiss. He also works as web designer for the Major League Baseball Advanced Media. (en) Benjamin Marra (n. Halifax, Nueva Escocia, 1 de marzo de 1977) es un ilustrador y dibujante de cómics norteamericano cuya obra ha sido, en su mayoría, autopublicada bajo su propio sello editorial: Traditional Comics, constituida por cómics de grapa en blanco y negro, impresos en papel de baja calidad y relativamente baratos. Su estilo de dibujo recuerda al de los artistas Paul Gulacy, Spain Rodríguez y a los ilustradores que decoran las máquinas de pinball. El primer cómic que le impactó fue , de Darick Robertson, historieta de ciencia ficción protagonizada por un castor antropomórfico que exhibía grandes dosis de violencia en sus viñetas. La lectura de este cómic le inspiró para realizar su obra posterior. Su formación artística pasa por estudiar en el School of Visual Arts, bajo la tutela de David Mazzucchelli, compartiendo clase con otro dibujante de cómics alternativo como es Dash Shaw, a estudiar pintura en Florencia (Italia) en 1998. Su estilo, según sus propias palabras, es algo como lo que The Stooges o los Ramones hacían en respuesta al aburrido rock autoindulgente, sin tomarse muy en serio a sí mismo y sin demostrar virtuosismo carente de contenido. Sus ilustraciones y cómics han aparecido en diversas publicaciones como Playboy, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Marvel Comics, Vice, Radar, Paper, Nylon, Widen+Kennedy y McCann-Erickson. Además trabaja como diseñador web para la Major League Baseball Advanced Media. En España su obra es publicada por la editorial . Sangre Americana es el nombre del tomo recopilatorio que recoge los 5 títulos más representativos de Traditional Comics: Gansta Rap Posse, Lincoln Washington, Adventures of Maureen Dowd, The Naked Heroes y Night Business. En noviembre de 2015, en España fue publicada su primera novela gráfica: Terror Assaulter OMWOT (One Man War On Terror) que en castellano se titula como: El Azote del Terror: C.A.U. (Comando Antiterrorista Unipersonal). En diciembre del 2015, con motivo de su gira española española, Creisi tur, la editorial Autsaider Cómics publica sus 2 últimos comic-books: Ácero y Laser e Intermediary Mund. En noviembre de 2017, Autsaider Cómics edita prácticamente simultáneamente con Fantagraphics, la novela gráfica Night Business, que recoge los 4 primeros capítulos publicados en Sangre Americana y 6 más inéditos para completar la saga. (es)
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