Jim Lee, Lewis Center for the Arts

Advisory Council Member

About

Jim Lee ‘86 P15 is a renowned comic book artist known for his detailed and dynamic artistic style, and the co-publisher of DC Entertainment. He is the artist for many of DC Comics’ bestselling comic books and graphic novels, including Justice League: Origins, Batman: Hush, and Superman Unchained. He has received numerous accolades and wide recognition for his work, including the Harvey Special Award for New Talent in 1990, the Inkpot Award in 1992, and the Wizard Fan Award in 1996, 2002 and 2003. Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1964 but moved with his family to St. Louis, Missouri, when he was young. After graduating cum laude with a bachelors degree in psychology from Princeton University in 1986, he started his professional career at Marvel Comics where his work on the X-Men continues to hold the all-time sales record for single-issue sales at eight million copies sold in one month. In 1992, Lee started his own production company, WildStorm Productions, and co-founded Image Comics, an independent comics company that quickly grew to become the third largest North American publisher. Two of his creations, Wildcats and Gen 13, saw life beyond comics as a CBS Saturday morning cartoon and as a DTV animated movie distributed by Disney, respectively. In 1998, DC Comics purchased WildStorm Productions and Lee left Image Comics to join the DC Entertainment creative team. Lee also served as the executive creative director for the DC Universe Online (DCUO) multiplayer action game from Daybreak Games, currently available free to play on PS4, PS3 and on Windows PC.