Grand designs pay off as Irish artist becomes leading light at Marvel

Lines drawn from Marvel’s new Spider-Man and cartoons of Seamus Coleman intersect at the son of a Ballycotton trawlerman. Don O’Mahony talks to Will Sliney.

THERE are certain companies in the field of entertainment that stand like totems on the popular landscape, their history and achievements understandable to all.

If you’re thinking comics, chances are you’ll think of Marvel. Its cartoonists and writers have created characters that are truly iconic and if you have a love of comics you will have thumbed the pages of a Marvel comic at some stage.