Biography

MAHMUD ASRAR (comic book artist; Austria)

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Mahmud Anjum Asrar is a Turkish-Austrian comic book artist who is known for his work on American and non-American comic books.

He expressed an interest in art and comic books at an early age. He attended Hacettepe University from 1994–1996, majoring in Fine Arts and Graphics, and Anatolian University from 1996–2000, majoring in the same.

Asrar came to the attention of writer Jay Faerber through his work on the independent anthology Digital Webbing Presents, and through a recommendation by Invincible artist Ryan Ottley, which led to his work on the Image Comics monthly series Dynamo 5, which Faerber and Asrar co-created, and on which Asrar was the regular artist. Asrar's other Image Comics work includes Small Gods.

Asrar also penciled She-Hulk: Cosmic Collision, a one-shot written by Peter David, that was published in December 2008, by Marvel Comics. He was the artist on the Brightest Day: Atom one-shot written by Jeff Lemire that leads into an Atom co-feature in Adventure Comics and was the artist of Supergirl in the rebooted DC Universe from 2011 to 2013. Starting in March 2013, Asrar was the lead artist on Ultimate Comics: X-Men series. Recently Asrar has worked on All-New, All-Different Avengers with Mark Waid. He is currently working on Conan the Barbarian with Jason Aaron.