JIM LEE |
Jim Lee is one of the most successful artists in American comics. He has received a enormous amount of recognition for his work in the industry, including the Harvey Special Award For New Talent in 1990. |
X-Men #1 still is the best-selling comic book of all-time with sales of 8 million copies of the first issue. |
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In 1991, Lee helped launch a second X-Men
series simply called X-Men, not only as the artist, but also as
co-writer. Lee
designed new uniforms for characters such as Cyclops. Jean Grey,
Rogue, Psylocke and Storm, creating the images that an entire
generation of X-Men readers would associate with the characters.
In 1992, Lee was one of
seven artists who formed Image Comics – creating popular
lines like WildC.AT.S, Stormwatch, Deathblow and Gen13.
In 1998, Lee left Image
Comics and returned to his roots as an illustrator. In
2003 he collaborated on a 12 issue run on Batman
together with a year's stint on Superman called For
Tomorrow.
Lee continues to run the company he founded, working
side by side with new artists.
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