Collection: Benjamin Marra

Benjamin Marra is a Grammy-nominated illustrator, designer, and cartoonist.

His illustrations for Numero Group’s Wayfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares garnered him a Grammy Nomination. Marra’s work has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, The Society of Publication Designers, 3x3, and American Illustration. In 2006 he was named as one of the Art Directors Club Young Guns. In 2016 he illustrated the cover of American Illustration 35.

Some of his collaborators include McSweeney’s, Playboy, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Marvel Comics, Vice, Nike, Vinegar Syndrome, Widen+Kennedy, Doubleday & Cartwright, and McCann-Erickson.

His comic books NIGHT BUSINESS, AMERICAN BLOOD, TERROR ASSAULTER: O.M.W.O.T. (One Man War On Terror), all published by Fantagraphics. Marra teamed up with screenwriters David Birke and Nicholas McCarthy to create DISCIPLES, a graphic novel published by Fantagraphics in 2022. From 2020 to 2022 then continuing in 2023, Marra created a daily comic on his Instagram feed called WHAT WE MEAN BY YESTERDAY to much adulation. When Heavy Metal magazine relaunched in 2016, with Grant Morrison as the new editor in chief, Morrison chose Marra to draw a comic Morrison wrote to be the centerpiece of the flagship issue.

Marra received a B.F.A in Illustration from Syracuse University, where he also studied at their art program in Florence, Italy. He received an M.F.A. in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts.

He lives in Montreal.