Mark Zug (born 1959) is an artist and illustrator, who worked with the Septimus Heap series and Harlan Ellison's adaptation of I, Robot.
[3] He capped his tutorial by ghost-painting covers for Western novels and doing penciling work on historical comic strips.
[4] Zug's works have appeared on the covers of novels by authors such as Tanith Lee, Diana Wynne Jones, and Hilari Bell, as well as series like Dragonlance.
[7] Zug's first work with children's novels was illustrating the cover art and the inside pictures for the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage.
His work for the Nancy Yi Fan novel Swordbird was acclaimed, saying that "Mark Zug's black-and-white drawings repeat strategically, offering a visual underpinning to the characters and storyline.