Marty has been an artist all his life. A member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, originally from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was born in Rapid City, S.D., attended college Colorado Institute of Art in Denver, CO., working in Vermillion, Rapid City, and Sioux Falls, S.D. Attained his BFA at the Institute of American Indian Arts and currently lives and works in Santa Fe, N.M.

It was at his high school newspaper (the Pine Needle) that Two Bulls first started publishing comic strips and early editorial cartoons. His interest in the cartoons medium started out as a hobby and slowly became a lifelong passion.

Marty Two Bulls Sr. is an Oglala Lakota originally from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He spent his childhood in Rapid City, South Dakota and was graduated from Rapid City’s Central High School in 1981. He attended college in Denver at the Colorado Institute of Art, which gave him the technical skills to land a job in his hometown with the local television station, a NBC affiliate, as an assistant to the art director.

Two Bulls began as an assistant to the art director at the local tv station KOTA an NBC affiliate, then into commercial printing. Working in weekly newspapers and then moved on to dailies. He accepted a position at the Rapid City Journal as graphics editor and he served on the editorial board for seven years. Two Bulls then moved on to the Argus Leader as graphics editor for six more years. He eventually left newspapers and returned to college to finish his BFA degree, freelance as a cartoonist, and pursue a fine art career. He started writing and illustrating editorial cartoons on a weekly basis for the Indian Country Today Media Network since 2001. His work also appears in the newspapers; Indian Country Today (Martin, SD), Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Times(New Town, ND), Cherokee One Feather (Cherokee, NC), and News from Indian Country (Hayward, WI). And his work is distributed by Andrew McMeel Universal’s GoComics; https://www.gocomics.com/m2bulls

His work focuses on issues of political interest to the people of his Tribe. Native Americans have been historically persecuted and marginalized by the dominant culture, which has reduced them to a minority in their own lands. Two Bulls creates his cartoons for his people; if non-Natives are touched by his work, all the better. It is important to him that the message of the editorial is made known to all peoples.

Marty currently works as a senior freelance artist, college art professor and graphic designer. He enjoys teaching, painting, sculpting and designing jewelry. His website is m2bulls.com