Mark van Oppen (

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, 29 April 1953) better known as Marvano, is a Belgian comic artist. He is most famous for the '' Forever War'', in collaboration with

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Biography

Born in 1953 in Belgium, he studied

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before working as an illustrator and starting to draw

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.Marvano
(database entry from the lambiek.net

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) Probably his best-known work is the collaboration with

on the ''Forever War'' graphic novel, an adaptation of the award-winning ''

The Forever War ''The Forever War'' (1974) is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story about human soldiers fighting an interstellar war against an alien civilization known as the Taurans. It won the N ...

'' novel. Marvano and Haldeman also worked together on comic adaptations of its direct sequel ''Forever Free '' and of the novel ''Buying time'' called ''

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''. Afterwards he did comics in a historical setting, like Berlin (Berlin in Germany during and after World War II) and Grand Prix (about grand prix racers during the 1930s).

References

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