MiD was incorporated in September 2000. We specialize in publication ready biological and technical illustration for journal articles, reviews, text books, and research.


Along with pen and ink illustration, we are experts in Mac OS X and Photoshop, Illustrator, Joomla!, html, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks and Powerpoint, as well as their Mac analogs.


In November 2009, Mark relocated to Atlanta to join the Amphibian Conservation program at the Atlanta Botanical Garden....


The illustrations continue, with several recent publications in The Journal of Experimental Biology, Biological Letters, and American Zoologist, as well as the 3rd Edition of The Everglades Handbook due out April 2010.


  1. The portfolio can be viewed at PenAndInk.org

  2. A brief biography of Mark’s Illustration and research can be viewed here.

Mark Mandica and Remora

Mark with an expired remora. Dauphin Island, AL

Here is Mark with a friend caught with a hoop net in Hadley, MA.


This snapper weighed in at 38 pounds. Not a small turtle, though they do get almost twice that weight. He appears to be chomping a small piece of muck for security...champ was released later that day


(photo by Anthony Herrel, Belgian Bite-o-meter King)

Mark Mandica cover of journal
Ambystoma opacum, Marbled salamander

About Mandica Illustration and Design

Mark’s links