Marvel Fact Files is a regular partwork published by Eaglemoss Publishing, that builds into an ever-expanding encylopaedia of characters from the entire Marvel comics universe. Starting in January 2015, I worked on the project as a freelance designer, in tandem with the existing in-house team.

Each "card" is different, often characters I've never heard of before being given the text to begin work. A lot of time goes into image research, often the copy will reference storylines and frames from the pre-digital era of comics, meaning a trip to the office is needed to comb through their garagntuan stack of (neatly ordered) back issues and collected editions, in search of that one perfect frame. Usually the older comics from the 60s to the 80s need a high level of clean up in Photoshop, perhaps even recolouring under a scan of a black and white frame.

Most of the work here was in InDesign and Photoshop

Eaglemoss asked me to update some of the books published as part of the Marvel Figurines series, taking the character stories up to their current point (as of 2015). The "history" sections of these magazines are 6 pages long, so the final 2 page spread of each issue had to be reworked with new imagery and copy. Luckily, the artwork for most of these were created digitally and existed on Marvel's DAM site, so I spent most of the time creating cut outs from these high res files.