Greg LaRocque

Who is Greg LaRocque?

Greg LaRocque is an American comic book illustrator.

Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, LaRocque worked as an assistant teacher at the Professional Institute of Art while still a teenager. He started his art career in the advertising field. His comics career began in 1980 with Marvel Comics, credits include Marvel Team-Up starring Spider-Man, Web of Spider-Man, The Avengers and Power Man and Iron Fist. After moving to DC Comics, LaRocque became prominent for his work illustrating the Paul Levitz-penned, Baxter Paper-format issues of Legion of Super-Heroes.

LaRocque then illustrated "The Flash" with writer William Messner-Loebs from 1988 and stayed on the title for 5 years ending with Issue # 79 which was written by Mark Waid. A career highlight was redesigning the Flash costume to its current incarnation.

Exiled Studio has released LaRocque's creator owned material in the 3 issue mini-series 'The Exiled', followed up by CryBaby, Exiled Studio's first color book. The CryBaby story arc was concluded in the 80 page graphic novel "Extinction". LaRocque's latest work is 'the Dreaming', also from Exiled Studio.