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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http://www.tommyleeedwards.com/

Tommy Lee Edwards is an American illustrator. Edwards's 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's 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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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.
  6. McMillan, Graeme (9 November 2016). "'Mother Panic': Behind Gotham City's New Comic Book Vigilante". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  7. "DC's Young Animal Imprint Is Getting a Cosmic Reshuffle Next Year". Gizmodo. 14 December 2017. Retrieved 2022-02-10.

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