ARTIST BIO

Ray Lago

Nearly three decades ago, Lago began his career as a freelance illustrator for such clients as Reader's Digest, Scholastic Books, Doubleday & Co. and various advertising agencies, including a brief stint at Neal Adams' Continuity Associates. This led him to a variety of work such as storyboarding, logo design and computer graphics. For a while he produced television graphics for NBC News, ABC News and PBS's McNeil/Lehrer News Hour. It was a good experience but inevitably he moved on to work in fields he was more interested in, such as fantasy and comics. Lago's comic book work includes an Ivanhoe graphic novel from First/Classics Illustrated, the Vampirella 25th Anniversary Special from Harris, Skin Tight Orbit from NBM, Hellraiser from Epic and Shi: Masquerade from Crusade as well as painted covers for Marvel, Dark Horse and various independent publishers. He's also contributed to multiple trading and gaming card sets including Magic the Gathering. Two monographs have been published on his art, Ray Lago: Heroes & Angels from Archangel Entertainment and Ray Lago Sketchbook I: Drawn to Beauty from Big Wow Art.
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