At the age of 16 Joe Madureira began to dream of a career as a comics artists. During his time at the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan, New York, Madureira was given an internship job at Marvel Comics, part-time. However this job didn't let Madureira work with what he most wanned to do, making comics. Insteed he did Xeroxes and passes stuffs from office to office.

But he had the oportunity to practice drawing, and what better place is there for a future comics artist to learn drawing comics than at Marvel Comics. During his internship he meet associate director Mark Powers, who introduced him to Terry Kavangah. Kavangah was impressed with Madureira and his style of drawing and assigned him an eight-page Northstar story which ran in Marvel Comics Present #92. At that time Madureira was 16 years old.

Kavangah like what he saw Madureira do in these first job as comics artist to assign him three more. The first Madureira story to become printed was the second, a Mojo tale in #89. Madureira also did a Puck and Mirage stories and several back covers.

By the time Madureira turned 17 he was a working comics artist in the full meaning of the word. He did Excalibur #58 and #71 and the cover to Marvel's Excalibur vs. the X-Men special for Kavangah. The to his astonishment he was assigned to pencil the first Deadpool min-series in 1993. Madureira says that this was probably the thing that established his career as a comics artist.

Madureira's work with the Deadpool mini-series caught the eye of Image Comics co-founder Erik Larsen, who offered him Vanguard #3, which Madureira accepted. After his work with Vanguard for Image Comics Madureira returned to Marvel and started working with x-editor Bob Harras. Harras started talking about letting Maduriera work with X-Force but changed his mind and let him work as a fill-in for Uncanny X-Men where the regular artist at the time as John Romita Jr.
Madureira did Uncanny X-Men #312-#313 and #316-#317. Then Harras offered him the book full time. At this time the four Astonishing X-Men issues part of the Age of Apocalypse storyline was the most in a row Madureira had done.

Joe Madureira's run on Uncanny X-Men lasted nearly 3 years. During that time he was involved in many good X-Men storylines, like Onslaught for an example. According to Wizard Magazine Joe Madureira was the number one penciler at the time. And then Madureira decided to leave Marvel Comics and work on a project of his own.

The project was Battle Chasers. And with Battle Chasers Madureira created a comic book that is not set in our time or our Earth. Battle Chasers is a mix between pure fantasy and cutting edge science fiction and the result is something very unlike any other American comic book currently produced.

What does the future holds for Joe Madureira? Who knows, one thing is for sure that haven't seen the best yet from this talanted young artist.

Excalibur #57

Battle Chasers #7

The Uncanny X-Men #338