Mark Beachum

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Mark Beachum is a comic book and multi-media artist known for his hyper erotic renditions of female super heroines such as Flare and Samuree.

He first entered the comic field in the early 80's working on such titles as Wonder Woman and New Talent Showcase for DC Comics. In the mid 80's he started working for Marvel Comics on various Spider-Man titles, both as a cover and interior artist. In 1990 he started Aja Blu Comix together with Sandra Chang, self-publishing the four issue split book Achilles Storm/Razmataz. Opposed and frustrated with the complete inanity of his mainstream work for companies like Marvel and DC, Razmataz was aimed towards an adult audience only. Razmataz was collected by Eros Comix in 2001 with additional and revisited content.

From 1994 through 1996 the fully painted serialised story Backlash appeared in Penthouse Comix, it ran from issue #4 to #11. In the following years he contributed painted stories to Hustler Comix, Vampirella, Forbidden Zone and again Penthouse Comix.

In 1999 the graphic novel Alienzkin appeared in the black and white anthology title Sizzle from NBM Publishing which he designed the masthead logo for. Mark Beachum combined traditional painting with computer generated 3D elements and photography for the realization of this story. After coming to a settlement for NBM's loss of half of the original art for Alienzkin he moved on looking for a publisher to repackage the recreated material in full color graphic novel format.

A unique fusion of philosophical musings as to the nature and relationship between sexuality, politics, commerce and technology alienzkin is the first project that contextualises his interest in erotic iconography with metaphysics. It was republished in full color by Eros Comix.

He continues his explorations of erotica, art, comics and video on his experimental website DV8XTC

[edit] Comics Bibliography

• 1983
  • Black Diamond #1 (AC)
  • Wonder Woman #310 (DC)
• 1984
  • New Talent Showcase #8 (DC)
  • New Talent Showcase #9 (DC)
  • New Talent Showcase #10 (DC)
  • Wonder Woman #314 [Back-up Penciler] (DC)
  • Wonder Woman #315 [Back-up Penciler] (DC)
  • Wonder Woman #316 [Back-up Penciler] (DC)
  • Wonder Woman #317 [Back-up Penciler] (DC)
  • Wonder Woman #318 [Back-up Penciler] (DC)
• 1985
  • Moon Knight Fist of Konshu vol.2 #6 [credited as Beacham](Marvel)
  • (Peter Parker, the) Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #5 (Marvel)
• 1986
  • The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #20 (Marvel)
  • (Peter Parker, the) Spectacular Spider-Man #112 (Marvel)
  • (Peter Parker, the) Spectacular Spider-Man #115 (Marvel)
  • (Peter Parker, the) Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #6 (Marvel)
  • The Outsiders [Back-up Story](DC)
• 1987
  • Mark Hazzard: Merc #5 (Marvel)
  • Samuree #1 (Continuity Publishing)
  • Samuree #2 (Continuity Publishing)
  • Samuree #3 (Continuity Publishing)
  • Samuree #4 (Continuity Publishing)
  • Elvira's House of Mystery #7 (DC)
  • Samuree #9 [inks only](Continuity Publishing)
• 1988
  • Flare #1 [interior art] (Hero)
  • Flare #2 [interior art] (Hero)
• 1989
  • Flare #3 (Hero)
• 1990
  • Achilles Storm #1 [Razmataz] (Aja Blu)
  • Achilles Storm #1 Limited [Razmataz] (Aja Blu)
  • Achilles Storm #2 [Razmataz] (Aja Blu)
  • Achilles Storm #3 [Razmataz] (Aja Blu)
  • Achilles Storm #4 [Razmataz] (Aja Blu)
• 1991
  • Flare #2 [Vol.2] (Hero)
• 1992
  • Rose #1 [Dark Passion Pt. 1](Hero)
  • Spider-Man, Dr. Strange : The Way to Dusty Death GN [Inks only] (Marvel)
• 1993
  • Rose #2 [Dark Passion Pt. 2] (Hero)
  • Rose #3 [Dark Passion Pt. 3] (Hero)
  • Flare First Edition #4 [Reprint] (Hero)
  • Flare First Edition #5 [Reprint] (Hero)
  • Flare Adventures #8 [Reprint] (Hero)
  • Flare Adventures #9 [Reprint] (Hero)
  • Green Lantern: Mosaic #9 [interior] (DC)
  • Black Dominion #1 (Anubis Press)
• 1994
  • Syphons Preview Edition (Now)
  • Syphons #1 (Now)
  • Syphons #2 (Now)
  • Syphons #3 (Now)
  • Penthouse Comix #4 [Backlash pt.1] (Penthouse)
• 1995
  • Penthouse Comix #5 [Backlash pt.2] (Penthouse)
  • Penthouse Comix #6 [Backlash pt.3] (Penthouse)
  • Penthouse Comix #7 [Backlash pt.4] (Penthouse)
  • Penthouse Comix #8 [Backlash pt.5] (Penthouse)
  • Penthouse Comix #9 [Backlash pt.6] (Penthouse)
  • Penthouse Comix #10 [Backlash pt.7] (Penthouse)
• 1996
  • Penthouse Comix #11 [Backlash pt.8] (Penthouse)
  • Penthouse Comix #12 [Nightclaw] (Penthouse)
  • Vampirella: Sad Wings of Destiny (Harris)
• 1997
  • Vampirella/Dracula: The Centennial (Harris)
• 1998
  • Penthouse Comix #32 [Latex Diva] (Penthouse)
  • Hustler Comix vol.2 #1 Spring'98 [Black Tarantula] (L.F.P. inc)
• 1999
  • Forbidden Zone (Galaxy Publishing)
  • Sizzle #3 [Alienzkin]
  • Sizzle #4 [Alienzkin]
  • Sizzle #5 [Alienzkin]
• 2000
  • Faust: Singha's Talons #1/2 [previously unpublished](Avatar)
• 2001
  • Razmataz GN (Eros)
• 2003
  • Alienzkin GN (Eros)
• 2004
  • Syphons GN [Reprint](Image)
• 2007
  • Flare #37 (heroic)
  • Flare #39 (heroic)