Bodē is also a tattoo and graffiti artist, spending many years working around Northampton, Massachusetts, although he now lives in California.

[citation needed] While attending SVA, Bodē met Marvel Comics editor Archie Goodwin, who was starting up a new magazine called Epic Illustrated.

Written by Larry Todd[5] and fully painted by Mark Bodē, the story was serialized in Epic Illustrated, and later collected by The Donning Company/Starblaze Graphics and re-published as a four-issue limited series by Tundra Publishing.

From 1988 to 1995, Bodē wrote and drew comics with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman.

[1] Bodē's anthology work includes Subway Art, Spray Can Art, Mugs and Mascots, Burning New York, Broken Windows, Dondi White, Aerosol Kingdom, Picturing the Modern Amazon (by New Museum books), Jack Kirby's Heroes and Villains, 15 Years of Heavy Metal, 20 Years of Heavy Metal, and Comic Book Superstars.

He trained under the guidance of tattoo artists Al Valenta, from western Massachusetts, and Myke Maldonado, from New York.

[2] In his career as a spraycan artist, he has done mural work globally in London, Spain, Italy, and Germany as well as locally in his hometown of San Francisco.

[2] Mark Bodē has contributed cover illustrations and interior artwork to numerous magazines, including Penthouse, Hustler and Gauntlet.