Mark Brooks Viral “Animated-Style” Marvel Characters Turn Into Variant Covers In February

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For the past year, artist Mark Brooks has been delighting fans online with his viral “animated-style” takes on Marvel comics characters. And now that unofficial fan art is becoming official, as the publisher will highlight his designs on covers, starting February.

“Almost a year ago I started drawing my animated Marvel characters as a warm-up every morning just for fun,” Brooks shared via a press release provided to Comic Book Club. “It became a way for me to loosen up and draw something different from my normal style. I never dreamed that over 200 characters later that they would see the light of day as official Marvel artwork. I have so many more to show and even more that I want to draw. I couldn’t be more thrilled to see them grace the covers of some of my favorite books and hope the audience enjoys collecting them as much as I did creating them!”

From the Avengers to the X-Men, the covers will feature on 26 different titles over the course of January. Marvel will also offer the Animated-Style Variant Covers as virgin variant covers, without those pesky logos.

You can check out a ton of the covers below (click for larger versions), as well as debut dates, and what titles they’ll appear on.

On Sale 2/5

AVENGERS #23 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS – 75960620426702316

PHOENIX #8 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS – 75960620959000821

SCARLET WITCH #9 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS – 75960620828900916

UNCANNY X-MEN #10 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS – 75960620917001021

WOLVERINE #6 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS – 75960620841800621

On Sale 2/12

CABLE: LOVE AND CHROME #2 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

DEADPOOL #11 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

IMMORTAL THOR #20 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

MAGIK #2 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

PSYLOCKE #4 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

X-MEN #11 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

On Sale 2/19

EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #6 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

INCREDIBLE HULK #22 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

LAURA KINNEY: WOLVERINE #3 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

MYSTIQUE #5 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

NYX #8 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

STORM #5 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

WEAPON X-MEN #1 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

X-FACTOR #7 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

X-FORCE #8 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

On Sale 2/26

CAPTAIN AMERICA & VOLSTAGG #1 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

IRON MAN #5 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

SABRETOOTH: THE DEAD DON’T TALK #3 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

WEST COAST AVENGERS #4 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

X-MEN #12 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

On Sale 3/26

INFINITY WATCH #3 ANIMATED-STYLE VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

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