Alitha Evelyn Martinez is the Eisner Award and GLAAD Award-winning artist of the Black Panther: World of Wakanda series. Her professional career began in 1999, penciling Iron Man for Marvel Entertainment. Since then, it’s been a great ride getting to work on titles like X-Men: Black Sun, Marvel Age Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Black Panther: World of Wakanda, X-Men Gold Annual, Moon Girl, Mark Morales Spider-Man, Fearless, Voltron, NBC’s Heroes, New 52 Bat Girl, Archie Comics’ New Crusaders and Riverdale, Omni for Humanoids, and WWE Superstar, WWE Slam City, and Barbie for Papercutz. She has worked on It’s a Bird, Sensational Wonder Woman, Nubia and the Amazons, and Amanda Waller’s Absolute Power origin story for DC Comics. The list goes on, thankfully.

Alitha has done larger projects that required more than just penciling and inking in graphic novels, like Vampire: My Boyfriend Bites, Kung Fu Masters, Quest for Dragon Mountain for Lerner Publications, and also political cartooning for the New York Post. In her spare time, Alitha works on her creator-owned titles Yume and Ever, and Foreign, which she publishes through her company, Ariotstorm Productions, LLC. She is also a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Finally, it’s official! She’s a writer, too — her longest, deepest-held dream. She has two stories for Epic under her belt, and A DC Powers Nubia story, HIZZAH!

The most rewarding part of her career is participating in the US State Department’s World Speaker Program. She travels to parts unknown to teach comic book workshops and bring the art of storytelling to people who would have no other way of getting such information. She was once in the same position, practicing a craft that she didn’t know was a profession. She loves representing her country and her industry.