DC‘s Publisher and Chief Creative Officer, Jim Lee, has been promoted to President of the comic book brand.
The famed artist, writer, editor, will continue his primary duties as Publisher at DC Comics, heading all the creative teams, and he’ll also lead creative efforts to integrate DC’s publishing portfolio of characters and stories across all media in the Warner Bros. Discovery umbrella.
Lee will continue to report to Pam Lifford, President of Global Brands, Franchises, and Experiences at Warner Bros. Discovery.
Lee joined DC in 1998 and has overseen many of the company’s highly successful publishing
programs, including the recent record-breaking Rebirth line of comics and The New 52 initiative
that relaunched the entire line of monthly superhero comic books. As part of the revamp, Lee
designed and reimagined the new, more contemporary costumes for some of the DC universe’s
most iconic characters, including Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.
Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea but moved with his family to St. Louis, Missouri, when he
was young. He holds a BA in Psychology from Princeton University and 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.
I so saw this coming. Awesome comic book news
The guy that designed literal armor for Superman of all characters. Great.
No his design is awful
I remember seeing his artwork on the Wolverine series and I was BLOWN AWAY!!
Jim Lee is an absolute Hall Of Famer in the comicbook industry. Legend!! He knows how to manage successful comicbooks. Marvel Comics should be embarrassed right now
He’s a good artist not good at the other stuff
This dudes journey is pretty awesome.
What journey? His art is great especially X-Men but Claremont wrote it, Image was an idea Liefeld, McFarlane, and Valentino had then Jim jumped onboard but was scared to join and when the drama came he sold out to DC. Then it’s been said he had no control of his company and others had to run it for him before it shut down, the writers hired were who made WildStorm relevant. Then in 2011 he was involved with the garbage new 52 however most talent said Lee didn’t do much it was Johns and Didio running DC not him. This guy should not have power he doesn’t know what he’s doing the big example once again WildStorm he sold it like a year after leaving Image.
PREACH MY BROTHER!
He’s one of the greats