Dan Panosian

Dan Panosian (born 1969) is an American comic book artist of Armenian descent, with extensive credits as both a penciller and an inker and has additional credits as an advertising and storyboard artist.

Early life Dan Panosian was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to artistic parents. He is of Armenian descent.

Career Comics

At age 14, Panosian sent an art submission to Marvel Comics, which was responded to with encouragement by the Submissions Editor, Len Kaminski. Years later he showcased his work at the New York Comic Convention, where comic book artists Neal Adams and Walt Simonson took notice. Adams offered him a position at his ad agency Continuity Graphics and Simonson called his editor, Ralph Macchio, at Marvel Comics. Panosian was soon working for both companies. Upon entering the Marvel offices for the first time, he was greeted by Kaminski, who had remembered corresponding with Panosian seven years earlier. On his office wall was a "thank you" illustration sent from the 14-year-old Dan Panosian.

After working on back-up features for Captain America, Batman, Spider-Man and Thor, Panosian's work caught the eye of the artistic teams working on the X-Men line of comic books where he became a regular inker. He also illustrates a series of graphic novels for Le Lombard called John Tiffany.

More recently, Panosian has worked on alternate feature covers for DC, such as the ongoing series Absolute Superman, Absolute Batman, and Absolute Wonder Woman. For Marvel, he's worked on variant covers for the 2025 edition of The Amazing Spider-Man, amongst others.

Being a descendant of survivors from the Armenian genocide, Panosian also contributed to a graphic novel about the genocide called Operation Nemesis: A Story of Genocide & Revenge.

He was soon also working with movie and commercial studios providing design and storyboard artwork. Panosian also branched out into book and magazine illustration, apparel lines, and toy design work.

Panosian illustrated one of Byron Preiss's first CD-ROM comic books, The Suit.

He made the fake comic book covers seen in the 2017 film Logan, as Marvel Comics did not allow actual comic book issues to be used.

Personal life Panosian, his wife and their son live in Los Angeles.

Awards Panosian received an Best-of-Show Addy Award for his work on the DSL ad campaign: Jack Flash. In 2011, Panosian was the Keynote Speaker for the 2011 Inkwell Awards Awards Ceremony at HeroesCon. In July 2025, he was named a Special Ambassador for the Inkwell Awards.

Selected bibliography

Marvel Comics Alpha Flight Astonishing X-Men Captain America The Incredible Hulk Iron Man Magneto Marvel Tales Savage Sword of Conan Thor The Uncanny X-Men Web of Spider-Man Wolverine Wonder Man

Image Comics Arkham Knight Cyberforce Phantom Force Pitt Prophet Savage Dragon Slots Spawn Stormwatch Wetworks Witchblade Youngblood Battlezone

Other Operation Nemesis: A Story of Genocide & Revenge