Ray Lago has been a prolific Artist for the comic book/fantasy industry for 4 decades, creating covers and cards of popular franchise characters such as Spider-Man, The Avengers, The X-Men, Superman, Vampirella, Ana Ishikawa/Shi, Predator, Robocop, Star Wars, the Garbage Pail Kids, Craniacs and many others.  Comic book story credits include Marvel’s Open Space and Hellraiser series, “Ivanhoe” for Classics Illustrated, “Ask Any Mermaid” in NBM’s Skin Tight Orbit vol. 2, Harris Comics’ Vampirella 25th Anniversary Special, “Shi: Masquerade” for Crusade, Little Annie Fanny for Playboy Magazine and “Marwe: Into the Land of the Dead” for Lerner Books.  In addition he is well known for his Magic the Gathering gaming cards for Wizards of the Coast.  

Ray also teaches as an Adjunct Instructor for the Illustration Dept. at NYC’s Fashion Institute of Technology.  There have been two monographs on his work: Ray Lago: Heroes & Angels and Ray Lago Sketchbook I: Drawn to Beauty.