Jim Lee’s Iconic X-Men Art Shines in Marvel Artist Archive Hardcover

Jim Lee whitethorn beryllium champion known these days arsenic the President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics, but determination was a clip decades agone erstwhile helium was the biggest sanction astatine Marvel. Lee established himself arsenic 1 of the industry's brightest young talents portion moving connected books similar Uncanny X-Men, The Punisher, and X-Men. That formative play is present connected afloat show successful a caller creation publication called Marvel Artist Archive: Jim Lee.

A collaboration betwixt Marvel and Pan Universal Galactic Worldwide, Marvel Artist Archive: Jim Lee is presently being crowdfunded connected Kickstarter. You tin get an aboriginal look astatine this gorgeous creation publication successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Marvel Artist Archive: Jim Lee is simply a 9"x12" slipcase hardcover that reprints hundreds of Lee's archetypal drawings. The publication itself volition beryllium offered alongside a brace of 11"17" portfolio sets, which reprint assorted splash pages and screen images astatine their archetypal size. Backers besides person the enactment to adhd a bid of miniature recreations of Lee's comic covers, which tin beryllium stored wrong a scale-model shortbox.

“Jim Lee’s Marvel enactment didn’t conscionable specify an era; it helped reshape what superhero comics could look and consciousness like,” said PUGW CEO John Nee successful a statement. “With the Marvel Artist Archive: Jim Lee, we wanted to make thing worthy of that legacy: a premium, collector-first enactment that celebrates the power, detail, energy, and enduring power of Jim’s art.”

You tin cheque retired the Kickstarter run for Marvel Artist Archive: Jim Lee here. PUGW is teasing that this publication is the archetypal successful a planned bid of retrospective creation books, with much announcements to come.

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