arc was born in New York City but was promptly whisked away to Turkey, where he spent the first two years of his life eating yoghurt. He then moved to Los Angeles and attended public school, earning a reputation in the fourth grade as “class Artist”.

Marc received a BA in architecture from Princeton University, and a MFA in painting from SUNY New Paltz. He worked as a graphic designer in Milton Glaser’s New York studio, before seeking refuge in illustration. At Glaser’s studio, he met his wife and sometime collaborator, designer, Eileen Rosenthal. They have worked together on children’s books, and several museum projects, notably, Berkshire Backyard, and Wally’s World (dinosaur exhibit) for the Berkshire Museum, and the farm signage for the Stamford Museum and Nature Center.

His illustration work can be seen regularly in The New Yorker, Time, Forbes, Fortune, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Boston Globe, and The Washington Post, as well as in many national and international publications too numerous and obscure to mention.

Most recently, Marc has both written and illustrated Phooey! (HarperCollins, 2007), and Archie and the Pirates, which HarperCollins will release in spring 2009. He has also illustrated many other children's books, including: Dig! by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha (Silver Whistle); First, Second by Daniil Kharms (FSG); The Absentminded Fellow by Samuel Marshak (FSG); The Straight Line Wonder by Mem Fox (Mondo Publishing); The Runaway Beard by David Schiller (Workman); and Where on Earth? A Geografunny Guide to the Globe by Paul Rosenthal (A.A. Knopf).

Marc lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Eileen, his son, Will, and Pete the cat.