Tommy Lee Edwards

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Tommy Lee Edwards
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Tommy Lee Edwards at the
2008 New York Comic Con
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Tommy Lee Edwards is an American illustrator. Edwards' varied portfolio includes works created in the realm of comics, video games, books, advertising, film, and animation.

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Career

As well as comic-related work he has also worked on film projects, providing the style guides for films like Batman Begins , Superman Returns and Men in Black II as well as providing movie posters, illustrations for role-playing games and other promotional or licensing work.

Edwards other projects include Marvel 1985 , [1] with writer Mark Millar, [2] which Millar has said "is about the real world, the world we live in right now, dealing with the villains of the Marvel Universe finding us." [3] He has also provided the art for Turf with Jonathan Ross. [4] Edwards co-wrote a comic book series and made a short film for the multi-platform project Vandroid , published by Dark Horse Comics in 2014. [5]

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Comics

Notes

  1. '80s ICON: Edwards talks "Marvel 1985", Comic Book Resources, April 9, 2008
  2. World Without Heroes: Millar Talks "Marvel 1985", Comic Book Resources, February 29, 2008
  3. Mark Millar Takes Marvel Back To 1985 Archived 2008-05-15 at the Wayback Machine , Comics Bulletin, February 29, 2008
  4. Richards, Dave (September 1, 2009). "Tommy Lee Edwards & Jonathan Ross Defend Their "Turf"". Comic Book Resources . Retrieved May 10, 2010.
  5. Johnston, Rich (November 15, 2013). "Vandroid By Tommy Lee Edwards' Noah Smith And Dan McDaid, Resurrected For Dark Horse In February". Bleeding Cool.

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