Laura Martin (née DePuy) is a colorist whose work has appeared across titles at Marvel, DC, and other major publishers. She was born on September 15, 1975, in Bogotá, Columbia, and studied graphic design at the University of Central Florida. She became interested in pursuing a career in comics after her friend and comic artist Ian Hannin reignited her appreciation for comic books.

She crafted a portfolio that showed her comic-related art and coloring, and soon joined Hannin at Jim Lee’s WildStorm. Starting in 1995, she spent five years as a staff colorist, assistant supervisor, and did some design work. One of her early well known projects was on Backlash/Spider-Man, a Marvel/WildStorm crossover miniseries. Following that project, she colored issues of Divine Right and StormWatch.

When DC procured WildStorm, Martin became the colorist on the Planetary series by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday, and Authority by Ellis and Bryan Hitch. From that point on, she became the primary colorist on Cassaday and Hitch’s work. In the late ‘90s and early 2000s, she colored JLA: Earth 2, JLA, and Marvel’s Universe X.

From 2001 to ’03, Martin was assistant art director and colorist for CrossGen comics, coloring Ruse, Edge, Meridian, and Sojourn. Before she became exclusive to CrossGen, she continued coloring issues of Planetary, JLA, and Universe X, adding in Ministry of Space for Image, worked with Dark Horse’s Maverick imprint, and colored parts of Oni Press Color Special 2001.

After CrossGen, she colored Astonishing X-Men and colored Serenity: Those Left Behind based on the Firefly TV show. Martin colored the Villains United limited series that led into Infinite Crisis at DC, then she colored Civil War: Front Line for Marvel’s Civil War event. Her coloring was featured in Thor and Astonishing X-Men, the Secret Invasion limited series, and she was regular colorist on New Avengers.

For her work in comics, Martin has won two Eisner Awards, a Harvey Award, and she became an Inkwell Awards Ambassador in 2014.