(Artist - Heavy Metal; Turok, Dinosaur Hunter; Magic: The Gathering)
Leo Leibelman attended the New York School of Visual Arts where he studied for a brief period under Carmine Infantino. In a short time, Leo began working for Marvel Comics providing painted covers and interior artwork for Savage Sword of Conan. From there, Leo went on to work for Acclaim Comics, where he was a cover artist for Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Magic: the Gathering. Leo later went to work for Topps on the Hercules Trading Card series.
Leo eventually moved to Toronto, Canada and found himself working in the film industry as a storyboard artist and concept designer on numerous films including Codebreakers, Chicago and Mutant X. Leo’s other illustration credits include painted covers for romance novels, educational CD-roms and Heavy Metal Magazine.
Leo still works in a traditional style with oil paints to maintain a photo-realistic style to his artwork in the hopes that viewers can appreciate the hard work that he puts into his craft.
