{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox comics creator <!-- | name = Marvano --> | image = Marvano.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Marvano at International Comics Festival in Lodz, Poland | birth_name = Mark van Oppen | birth_place = Zolder, Belgium | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = Belgian | cartoonist = y | write = y | art = y | pencil = | ink = | edit = | publish = | letter = | color = | alias = | signature = <!-- very optional --> | notable works = ''The Forever War'' | awards = | website = | birth_date={{Birth date and age|df=yes|1953|4|29}} }} '''Mark van Oppen''' (Zolder, Belgium, 29 April 1953) better known as '''Marvano''', is a Belgian comic artist. He is most famous for the ''Forever War'', in collaboration with Joe Haldeman.
==Biography== Born in 1953 in Belgium, he studied interior architecture before working as an illustrator and starting to draw graphic novels.<ref>[http://lambiek.net/artists/m/marvano.htm Marvano] (database entry from the lambiek.net Comiclopedia)</ref> Probably his best-known work is the collaboration with Joe Haldeman on the ''Forever War'' graphic novel, an adaptation of the award-winning ''The Forever War'' novel. Marvano and Haldeman also worked together on comic adaptations of its direct sequel ''Forever Free '' and of the novel ''Buying time'' called ''Dallas Barr''. 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).
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{{refbegin}} * [http://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-328-BD-Marvano.html Marvano] at Bedetheque {{in lang|fr}} *{{comicbookdb|type=creator|id=8567|title=Marvano}} {{refend}}
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Category:Belgian comics artists Category:Belgian comics writers Category:Belgian science fiction writers Category:Belgian graphic novelists Category:Belgian science fiction artists Category:Pseudonymous comics artists Category:20th-century Belgian architects Category:Living people Category:1953 births