Mike Lilly

Mike Lilly
Mike Lilly at the 2008 New York Comic Convention.
Born	Michael Paul Lilly
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Penciller
Notable works	Annihilation Conquest Quasar, Vampirella, Nightwing, Detective Comics
Awards	I-CON 25 Best Black & White Art Show Award of Excellence 2006

Mike Lilly is a comic book artist who freelances for major comic-book publishers on such titles as Annihilation Conquest Quasar, Vampirella, Nightwing, Batman, Detective Comics, Marvel Knights, Punisher, Catwoman, Green Lantern, X-Men Unlimited, and Dungeons & Dragons.

Career

In 2005 Lilly and writer Vito Delsante produced the creator owned World War II pulp adventure, The Mercury Chronicles.^[1]

He has collaborated with the interior design company Kreiss Enterprises. Lilly designed life size panels to depict an entire comic book story installed onto the walls of designer Loren Kreiss's New York City apartment. This pop-art piece was featured in The New York Times Real Estate section^{[volume & issue needed]}, The Financial Times Style section^{[volume & issue needed]}, Ocean Drive Magazine,^{[volume & issue needed]} Wizard Magazine^{[volume & issue needed]} and The New York Post.^{[volume & issue needed]}

Lilly is most known in the Star Wars community for his Star Wars Heritage original art sketch cards from Topps, Inc. Lilly’s original art sketch cards can also be seen for the Revenge of the Sith trading card line, The Lord of the Rings Evolution and Masterpieces series, Frankenstein from Universal, The Vintage Poster Collection sketch cards from Breygent, The Complete Avengers from Marvel Comics/Rittenhouse Archives and DC Legacy archive editions from DC Comics.

Cover to The Mercury Chronicles #1 (2006). Art by Mike Lilly.

Lilly has also illustrated educational comics for Scholastic (Macbeth, Arabian Nights, Treasure Island, The Sword in the Stone, Jane Eyre), and Simon and Schuster, as well as medical comics for GlaxoSmithKline and financial comics for Solomon Smith-Barney.

From 2002 to 2005, Lilly worked on a number of Batman-related titles for DC Comics, including Batman Special #1, Detective Comics #788-798 and Nightwing #82, 85 and 94 - 97. From 2005 - 2006, Lilly illustrated the Vampirella Revelations miniseries for Harris Comics.

In 2007 Lilly illustrated the Annihilation: Conquest: Quasar miniseries for Marvel Comics.

In 2008 Lilly signed an exclusive contract with Dynamite Entertainment,^[2] for whom he did work on Black Terror, and hoped to do work on Red Sonja, Zorro and Lone Ranger.^[3]

Interviews

• Vampirella Revelations Interview - artist's thoughts on the acclaimed Vampirella Revelations Mini-Series with T.J. Dietsch.
• Mike Lilly Exposed! - Alvaro's Comic Boards Mike Lilly interview with Randy Burtis.

References

1. ^ Brady, Matt. "Mike Lily: Black Terror, Exclusivity and More". Newsarama. July 9, 2008
2. ^ Jaffe, Sarah. "WW PHILLY '08: Dynamite Entertainment Panel". Newsarama. June 1, 2008
3. ^ Brady, Matt. "Mike Lily: Black Terror, Exclusivity and More". Newsarama. July 9, 2008

External links

• Mike Lilly.Com - Official website
• Mike Lilly at the Comic Book DB
• Mike Lilly's ComicSpace - artist's Comic Space site
• SIN Studios Online.com - official Strength In Numbers Studios website

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