birth_date: 1964-08-11 00:00:00
avg_rating: 3.98
name: Jim Lee
about: Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. Jim Lee is a Korean-American comic book artist, creator and publisher. After graduating from Princeton, he decided to attempt illustrating comic books, and met with success. Lee's distinctive, crisply hatched line art style and rigid, idealized anatomical forms established a new stylistic standard for superhero comic-book illustration and reinforced a popular trend away from brushed to penned inking in the late 20th and early 21st century. Lee is currently one of the most successful artists in American comics.He has received a great deal of recognition for his work in the industry, including the Harvey Special Award Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. Jim Lee is a Korean-American comic book artist, creator and publisher. After graduating from Princeton, he decided to attempt illustrating comic books, and met with success. Lee's distinctive, crisply hatched line art style and rigid, idealized anatomical forms established a new stylistic standard for superhero comic-book illustration and reinforced a popular trend away from brushed to penned inking in the late 20th and early 21st century. Lee is currently one of the most successful artists in American comics.He has received a great deal of recognition for his work in the industry, including the Harvey Special Award for New Talent in 1990. ...more