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Pat Lee

Patrick "Pat" C.K. Lee
Born June 28, 1975 (1975-06-28) (age 32)
Canada
Nationality Canadian
Area(s) penciller, publisher
Notable works Bloodpool
WildC.A.T.S.
Wetworks

Patrick "Pat" C.K. Lee (born June 28, 1975) is a Canadian comic book artist, publisher, former President and co-founder of the now defunct Dreamwave Productions.[1][2]

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Biography

At an early age of 16, Lee began his career in the comic book industry right after graduating in high school by sending over 150 pages of sample artworks to disinterested Marvel and DC editors. It took nearly a year before he finally caught the attention of then-Image creator Rob Liefeld at a Toronto convention in 1994. Four months later, he was hired by Image Comics and went off to train at Extreme Studios. There, he learned an invaluable skill: speed. In an interview with Wizard he states:

“ When I was working there, I'd have work slapped down at me. It's gotta be done today. I'd hear, and I figured, okay, this is something I've gotta get used to.[3] ”

Lee worked on various titles such as Bloodpool, Extreme Sacrifice, Black Flag, Glory, Darkchylde, Avengeblade, Extreme Prelude, and Prophet. Soon after, he was hired in Wildstorm Productions to work on Jim Lee's WildC.A.T.S., Allegra and Whilce Portacio's Wetworks. His career in comic books led him to work in Marvel Comics with a Wolverine/Punisher mini-series entitled Revelation.[4]

Dreamwave

A year later, he and his brother Roger Lee founded Dreamwave Productions. Though their first title, the mini-series Darkminds failed to attract an audience, the two secured comic licenses for the popular toyline Transformers, which Lee would illustrate. While initially extremely popular and profitable for his company, Lee's work on "Transformers" drew much criticism for the style he used. Readership waned, and eventually, writers who worked on the series began claiming that Lee was not paying them for their work. [5] Dreamwave then filed for bankruptcy on January 4th, 2005, bringing the "Transformers" series and it's related spin-offs to a halt. [6].

Work for Hire

With Dreamwave Productions closed, Lee formed a new production company known as "Dream Engine" and parlay his work on the "Transformers" franchise to land a string of jobs for Marvel and DC, most notably a X-Men/Fantastic Four mini-series and an arc on the Batman/Superman series for DC. He also contributed to a relaunch of Cyberforce for Top Cow Productions, another Image studio. Most of these new projects failed to bring Lee the high profile acclaim of his Transformers work, with the Washington Times in particular criticizing his ability to draw humans versus the larger than life robots from "Transformers". "[7]

Footnotes

  1. ^ "DreamWave Folds; ComicsOne, Too?", Publishers Weekly, 1/17/2005. Retrieved on 2008-05-29.  Archived 2008-05-29.
  2. ^ McCarthy, Sean. "Transformers adapt to top today's charts", Daily Nebraskan, 4/30/02. 
  3. ^ Wizard Magazine #93 April Fools' Day issue, May 1999
  4. ^ Golden, Christopher & Sniegoski, Tom (w), Lee, Pat (p), Lee, Alvin (i). Wolverine/Punisher: Revelation. February 2000, Marvel Comics. ISBN 0785107290
  5. ^ Stump, Greg (July, 2005). "Transformers Line Picked Up by IDW, Though Creators Still Have Reason to Gripe". The Comics Journal (269). ISSN 0194-7869. 
  6. ^ Final Dreamwave press release declaring bankruptcy
  7. ^ Szadkowski, Joseph. "Marvel gives Fantastic Four makeovers for new comics", Washington Times, 30-JUL-05. 

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