Jim Lee is a Korean-American comic book artist, writer, editor and publisher. He first broke into the industry in 1987 as an artist for Marvel Comics, illustrating titles such as Alpha Flight and Punisher War Journal, before gaining a great deal of popularity on The Uncanny X-Men. X-Men #1, the 1991 spinoff series premiere that Lee penciled and co-wrote with Chris Claremont, remains the best-selling comic book of all time, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
In 1992 Lee and several other artists formed their own publishing company, Image Comics, to publish their creator-owned titles, with Lee publishing his titles through his studio, Wildstorm Productions, such as WildC.A.T.s and Gen 13. Eschewing the role of publisher in order to return to illustration, Lee sold Wildstorm in 1998 DC Comics, where he continued to run Wildstorm as a DC imprint until DC ended Wildstorm in 2010, as well as illustrating successful books set in the DC’s main fictional universe, such as the year-long “Batman: Hush" and “Superman: For Tomorrow” storylines. On February 18, 2010, Jim Lee was announced as the new Co-Publisher of DC Comics with Dan DiDio both replacing Paul Levitz.
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Artwork Examples*
Jim Lee Black Cat Sketchbook Commission
Owner: Joe L
Batman #617, pages 12 & 13 (new scan 1/3/12)
Owner: Eric Delos Santos
Colossus by Jim Lee
Owner: Kirk Dilbeck
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