Mark Chiarello (born October 31, 1960) is an American illustrator, art director and comic book editor.
Career
After attended the Pratt Institute in the 1980's, Chiarello moved into the comic book industry.
As a comic book illustrator, Chiarello painted the Batman graphic novel Batman/Houdini: The Devil's Workshop, which earned him the 1993 National Cartoonists Society Award for Best Comic Book. He was the first colorist on Mike Mignola's creator-owned comic book, Hellboy (on Seed of Destruction).
Chiarello served as SVP, Art & Design Director for DC Comics for 27 years, before leaving the company in 2019.[1]
As an editor for DC Comics, he created the Batman: Black and White, Solo, and Wednesday Comics, and was the editor of Darwyn Cooke’s series New Frontier. Chiarello was responsible for teaming up comics superstars Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb for their extremely successful run on the Batman series "Hush". Previously, Chiarello worked at Marvel Comics