Collection: Greg Land Artist Biography and Art Gallery Collection

Greg Land is an American comic book artist, best known for his work on books such as Uncanny X-Men, Birds of Prey, and Fantastic Four.  Born in 1956, and raised in Indiana, he attended Indiana State University. During his junior year, he began working at a screen printing company, and worked there for ten years. While there he created a comic art portfolio in the early 1990's. After impressing people with his art at the Mid-Ohio Con comic convention, Greg Land got a job with an independent publisher as the artist for Caliber Comics' StormQuest. With work on StormQuest completed, Greg Land went to Chicago and did his first major comic book convention. There he met with DC Comics' editor Pat Garrahy, who liked his work. In 1999, Greg Land was doing covers of Birds of Prey based on the sketches of Brian Stelfreeze.  He was hired by DC Comics in 1999 to finish the covers for Birds of Prey, based on the sketches of Brian Stelfreeze.  Greg Land also had runs as interior penciler on both Birds of Prey and Nightwing for DC Comics.

Greg Land later began to work at CrossGen Comics, on a series called Sojourn. The series ran from July 2001 through May 2004, for a total of 34 issues. It could be best described as a classic fantasy epic. The story dealt with the resurrection of an Undead, sigil-bearing Mordath, who had nearly conquered the entire realm centuries before. A woman named Arwyn, an archer whose husband and child died in an onslaught of Mordath's troops, is in search of the 5 shards of a mystical arrow which killed Mordath the first time. Greg Land was able to move on to Marvel Comics, along with his inker and colorist from Sojourn, after the fall of CrossGen.

Greg Land became the penciler for Ultimate Fantastic Four. He did the artwork for a crossover between Marvel's Supremeverse and the Ultimate Universe, entitled Ultimate Power, which was written by Brian Michael Bendis, J. Michael Straczynski and Jeph Loeb. This led to a collaboration with writer Greg Pak as the main artist of X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong. Next, Land became the penciler for Ultimate Fantastic Four.  He then did the covers for Marvel Zombies 3 which were all homages to posters of famous Zombie movies. In 2008 Greg Land illustrated Uncanny X-Men #500. From then until December 2011 he would illustrated several sporadic sets of issues, totaling 22 in all, his last being issue #544. During this same period he also illustrated issue #210 and 235–237 of X-Men: Legacy. In 2012 Land illustrated issues #5–8 and 11–12 of the relaunched Uncanny X-Men. Land then served as the artist for the Uncanny X-Men, a position he shared with artist Terry Dodson. Land and Dodson changed places on the title's regular art duties with Land drawing the first arc and Dodson doing the next one and so on. His first official stint as regular artist began with issue #501. The artwork of Greg Land is currently credited in 675 separate Comic Book issues.