Martin McKenna (artist)

Martin McKenna (21 February 1969 – September 2020) was a British artist and illustrator, known for his work in role-playing games, novels, and comics, mainly of horror and fantasy genres.

He illustrated many Games Workshop products in the 1980s, and his drawings were a key part of the visual identity of the first edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. When Games Workshop started its Warhammer fiction line in 1990, he provided internal art. He contributed to Fighting Fantasy books, Everway, Magic: The Gathering, video games (including Eidos Interactive, and film and television. He has illustrated books for numerous international publishers including Scholastic, Penguin Books, Oxford University Press, HarperCollins, Time-Warner, and Hodder & Stoughton, illustrating popular authors such as Anne McCaffrey, Raymond E. Feist and Harry Turtledove, as well as some classics including Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and The Silver Sword. He also wrote books about digital art, such as Digital Fantasy Painting Workshop and Digital Horror Art, and the children's picture books The Octopuppy and The Crocodolly.