Background
Asrar was born in Ankara, Turkey to an Austrian mother and a Pakistani father.
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Mahmud Anjum Asrar
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He attended Hacettepe University from 1994–1996, majoring in Fine Arts and Graphics, and Anatolian University from 1996–2000, majoring in the same.
Career
His American work includes pinups for Savage Dragon #124 and Invincible #20, and for co-creating, with writer Jay Faerber, the series Dynamo 5, which debuted in March 2007 from Comics. He expressed an interest in art and comic books at an early age. Asrar came to the attention of writer Jay Faerber through his work on the independent anthology Digital Webbing Presents, and through a recommendation by Invincible artist Ryan Ottley, which led to his work on the Comics monthly series Dynamo 5, which Faerber and Asrar co-created, and on which Asrar was the regular artist.
Asrar"s other Comics work includes Small Gods.
Asrar also pencilled She-Hulk: Cosmic Collision, a one-shot written by Peter David, that was published in December 2008, by Comics. He was the artist on the Brightest Day: Atom oneshot written by Jeff Lemire that leads into an Atom co-feature in Adventure Comics, and is currently the artist of Supergirl in the rebooted District of Columbia Universe.
Starting in March 2013, Asrar will be the lead artist on Ultimate Comics: X-Men.
