Martin McKenna (21 February 1969 – September 2020) was a British artist and illustrator, known for his work in role-playing games, novels, and comics, mainly of horror and fantasy genres.
[1] He contributed to Fighting Fantasy books, Everway, Magic: The Gathering, video games (including Eidos Interactive,[2] and film and television.
[1] He has illustrated books for numerous international publishers including Scholastic, Penguin Books, Oxford University Press, HarperCollins, Time-Warner, and Hodder & Stoughton, illustrating popular authors such as Anne McCaffrey, Raymond E. Feist and Harry Turtledove, as well as some classics including Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and The Silver Sword.
[3] In Issue 93 of White Dwarf, Phil Gallagher called McKenna's artwork in the Games Workshop publication Death on the Reik "nothing short of superb — he deserves a lot of credit for the way he's captured the atmosphere of the Reikland setting, not to mention the personalities of the dozens of non-player characters.
His hobbies included reading, watching films, training his border collie, Nell, for sheepdog trials, hiking Scottish mountains, and flying airplanes.