Lee Bermejo

Lee Bermejo
Nationality American
Area(s) Writer, Artist
Notable works
 Batman: Noël
Before Watchmen: Rorschach
Joker
Lex Luthor: Man of Steel
Wednesday Comics
Awards IGN Comics Award Best Graphic Novel 2008

Lee Bermejo is an American comic book artist whose published work includes interior illustrations and cover art.

Career

Lee Bermejo's career began in 1997 as an intern at Wildstorm.[1] He is self-taught, with little formal art training.[2] His first credited comics work appeared in Gen¹³ #43 (Sept. 1999)[3] Together with writer Joe Kelly and co-artist Doug Mahnke, Bermejo crafted the "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?" story in Action Comics #775 (March 2001). He and writer Brian Azzarello collaborated on the Lex Luthor: Man of Steel limited series in 2005 and the Joker graphic novel in 2008.[3] In 2009, Bermejo drew the Superman story in the Wednesday Comics limited series.[4][5] Bermejo both wrote and drew the Batman: Noël graphic novel in 2011.[6] He and Azzarello worked together again on the Before Watchmen: Rorschach limited series in 2012-2013.[7] In 2015, Bermejo will launch an ongoing series for Vertigo titled Suiciders.[8]

Selected bibliography

Interior art

DC Comics

Image Comics

Marvel Comics

Cover work

Awards

References

  1. ↑ White, Brett (August 29, 2008). "Lee Bermejo Q&A". Wizard. Archived from the original on September 9, 2008.
  2. ↑ Thibault, Jason (May 11, 2009). "Lee Bermejo – Master of Pencil and Ink". OptimumWound.com. Archived from the original on June 19, 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lee Bermejo at the Grand Comics Database
  4. ↑ Cowsill, Alan; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "2000s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 338. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. Wednesday Comics was a broadsheet anthology created to be reminiscent of the comic section in Sunday newspapers. It also brought together some of the medium's top creators...'Superman' with a script by John Arcudi, and art by Lee Bermejo.
  5. ↑ Renaud, Jeffrey (September 16, 2009). "Wednesday Comics: Arcudi & Bermejo". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on October 12, 2012.
  6. ↑ Esposito, Joey (November 3, 2011). "Batman: Noël Review". IGN. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
  7. ↑ Gerding, Stephen (March 7, 2012). "DC Comics Releases Lee Bermejo Before Watchmen Art". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on June 20, 2012.
  8. ↑ Johnston, Rich (July 1, 2013). "All Six New Vertigo Titles, Including Lee Bermejo’s Suiciders And Caitlin Kittredge And Inaki Miranda’s Coffin Hill". Bleeding Cool. Archived from the original on October 22, 2013. Retrieved December 8, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Best Original Graphic Novel". IGN. n.d. Archived from the original on August 15, 2012. Retrieved December 7, 2013.

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