I don't think you can measure your love or your passion for whatever you're working on. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Any time you change something classic or iconic, you're going to have some part of the fan base up in arms. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
There's an obvious marketing component to doing something digitally where you're reaching out to new readers that you can't do in the… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I think sometimes with new characters, you can kind of hit a creative valley, and it's important to recognize when you're in… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Most video games, you build up toward the big, bad boss. And it's just a bigger, more powerful version of what you've… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
When you have a Green Lantern mixing with a foil like Batman, you get scenes that are comic-book history. There's the epicness… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Part of running DC Comics is that it's much larger than Image Comics is, or was. There's a challenge to being one… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Costumes are all about identifying which force in a conflict you're on. That's where banners and flags came from - so people… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Even today, a lot of the CGI you see in movies is so clean and crisp that it just looks fake. It's… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
There are a lot of global decisions that you can make as a co-publisher, and only publishers can make those kind of… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
It's interesting - a lot of what you accomplish in your lifetime either as an individual or as a company is determined… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
The way you challenge Superman is by having things happen very, very quickly in different places and then asking, 'Who does he… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Back in the '30s, '40s and '50s, you had clear-cut heroes, clear-cut supervillains. Today, you have more of a blend, more of… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Superheroes are modern mythological characters, so you're going to make them look impossible. Even my Krypto The Superdog is the idealisation of… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
The thing that weighs the most on how your final artwork turns out is the amount of time you have and the… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
If you look at the great superheroes in any universe, you will always find that they have the very best super villains… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
You can see how he changed on the surface. But at the core of it all, I think Superman has remained the… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I think when you're knee-deep in coming up with editorial plans, the desire to sit down and pencil something is pretty strong. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice. — Jim Lee Copy Share
“Mutants, super beings, gods, aliens, a guy who sticks to walls at one extreme, a creature who eats planets at the other; Each one… — Jim Lee Copy Share
I like having pairs of characters to play off each other. I love drawing Batman, but he's more fun with Robin. Batman charges ahead,… — Jim Lee Copy Share
The thing that weighs the most on how your final artwork turns out is the amount of time you have and the speed at… — Jim Lee Copy Share
There's also a lot of punch you get from doing an extreme closeup and have it just be that image with nothing around it.… — Jim Lee Copy Share
Part of running DC Comics is that it's much larger than Image Comics is, or was. There's a challenge to being one of the… — Jim Lee Copy Share
No true fan wants to go to Comic-Con and get assaulted with a marketing blitz about just any old show. — Jim Lee Copy Share
As lifelong fans of comic books, Dan Didio and myself, we definitely have our own takes on what make for successful comics and the… — Jim Lee Copy Share
There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets is not… — Jim Lee Copy Share
Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or… — Jim Lee Copy Share
Al Plastino helped redefine Superman in the 1950s. His work on Supermans Girlfriend, Lois Lane, Adventure Comics and pretty much any title in the… — Jim Lee Copy Share
Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were… — Jim Lee Copy Share
