Jim Lee's twitch stream is what drove me to start drawing again after 20 years. I highly recommend anyone to watch those.

Would personally love to see a video on Greg Capullo’s (the New 52 Batman Artist) art works and style.

I've seen some of Lee's videos. It's nice that he is so generous with his knowledge as an artist. As I'm not _really_ a reader of comics, embarrassingly I've just kind of heard about and thought of Jim Lee as this guy who "draws pretty good" I didn't realize he's one of the greatest comic book artists of all time. It's like I walked into a museum, drifted to a Da Vinci and went "Nice."

Jim Lee, as well as Alex Ross, have helped elevate comic books into the realm of fine art.

Chris, I'm so happy that you gave Scott Williams the credit he deserves. I hope Williams has been well compensated for his work over the years, because I don't think Jim Lee would be where be is today without him.

What I love about Jim Lee is that you can see definite improvement over time... not every artist does that and those are the artists that fall out of the business.

Jim Lee made Rogue the “IT” girl of Marvel Comics in the early 90s. Man I had a crush on her back then.

I can fully appreciate your dissection of the inking process. You really have a great handle on what we fight with at times making endless decisions over "sketchy" pencils. My time on Spawn over Capullo was the best learning process I have ever had. He gives you just enough to know what he wants but the freedom to add your own style and touches. Great job man!!

Impressive exposition on inking in the comics media. You can teach comics to the world, dude. Continue the great work.

Always saddens me that Jim Lee did extraordinary art on DC stories that were either mediocre or downright bad. He needs to pick more quality scripts if he gets back to doing more freelance work.

If the lines aren't crossing each other, it's not cross-hatching. It's just "hatching."

I like how Jim sort of assimilated Frank Miller’s sin city style use of positive and negative space, and he uses a whiteout pen to go back in and add white on top of black, sort of an easier method compared to using a scratch board and lifting the black off the page... so you don’t have to plan so far ahead and work counterintuitively. I like how he takes the best bits of everything and has a whole box of techniques he can rely on that always look cool, like using a tissue dipped in ink to create large swaths of black, of using a card to flip white ink onto a pice to make splatter. The way he renders rain is a combination of all three aforementioned techniques and it looks so good and creates a lot of energy and movement

This channel is better than a real TV show, immersive, engaging, amazing. Thank you for your work.

What I like about Jim Lee's comics are the dynamic comic panels and all the action -- more than appropriate for comic book superheroes. What I dislike... most of all is that his characters all look the same; it's hard to tell them apart if not for their costumes or hairstyles.

Don't overlook John Byrne's very clear influence on Lee. A lot of Lee's work on _Uncanny X-Men_ looks almost like a tribute to Byrne, _especially_ his Wolverine and when the team goes to the Shi'Ar Imperium.

You should talk about Marc Silvestri next, because he's one of my favourite artists & a lot of my artwork is inspired by his art and I really liked his time on Uncanny X-Men in the late 80s & early 90s

Jim Lee is amazing. A lot of what started me drawing comics and my ideal version was Thur his crosshatched style. He made me a fan as an artist.

The team of Williams and Lee is incredible. Thank you for bringing attention to this. I never put 2 and 2 together

Jim Lee is the reason I got into comics. His art is so good that it feels like an overindulgence to look at it.

Jim is one of my favourite artists, I really like watching his speed art and instructional videos.

I love Jim Lee’s early 90’s work. Golden age of comics for sure with Jim at the top

Jim lee is a icon ...his drawing a amazing! !!!the Dramatic dinamic poses a incredebile! !!!

The Filipino invasion took place in the 70's with Tony DeZuñiga, Alfredo Alcala, Alex Niño, Ernie Chan, Romeo Tanghal, Nestor Redondo, etc, Would to see an episode about this.

My personal favourite is his Uncanny X-men run. Number 258 is the first comic I ever picked up. The cover was mesmerising. Still have those even after I stopped collecting like 20 years ago.

So glad to hear you give the inkers their due! 💜

Its funny jim lee in the 90s said he'd never work for dc Look at him know

I was a hug jim lee fan back in the day. I remember owning the xmen comics he inked I kept them in the bag with the white cardboard behind it hanging on my wall. I remember when him and Todd McFarland left marvel to form image and birthed wild cats and spawn. Both comics were so beautifully done. Jim and Scott were a great team, they made some of the greatest artwork ever. I even remember the competition jim Lee had with Todd McFarland and todd won that's why he got a toy line. Ahhhhhh the 90's

The stuff around War Journal is where he peaked. Past few decades Jim Lee basically draws the same few figures for everyone with different hair and eye color. -Bruce Wayne, Thomas Elliot, Clark Kent, Harvey Dent, Lex Luther; all the same dude. -Lois Lane, Selina Kyle, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn; all the same chick. -Robin, Super Boy, Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd, and Thomas Elliot in flashbacks or Clayface in disguise; all the same child. -Scarecrow and Joker are twins. -Clunky monsters like Croc and Clayface are where he almost gets creative.

Loved Jim's work on Alpha a flight and still have those issues.

I am so glad you made this video and how in depth you were on chronologically detailing Jim Lee's art plus Scott Williams' inking. I wish you would take time to do more and explore other artists.

Your technical commentary and narrative are both interesting and well thought out. Just a lot of fun to listen to. Glad I stumble across this.

Ian's FANART!!! THAT'S MY BOY!!! Hell yeah, Ian, Great work!

I think Jim Lee really shines with X-Men. More than anything he ever did with DC. Also loved his run with the Punisher but my dream is Jim to do a run on Spider-Man!

20:07 this right here is such an insane piece of art, just wow.

Great video! I loved the comparison of Jim Lee's art with and without the inking of Scott Williams... Thank you for the good work!

Comic Tropes is one of my favourite watch's right now, fantastic for isolation! Great show dude!

Scott William n Jim Lee are an beast in comics ... u just cant be them ... too unique

Amazing Chris! This kind of work ethic and excellent content is why your channel is going to blow up in popularity! Thank you for posting consistently! I am blown away by the Christmas tie in!!!! Fantastic!

Im filipino... and i wanna make comics when i grow up

How about a Michael Turner video in the same vein? I was sad to learn that he had died only a few months before I had discovered him. Would love to see anything on Michael Turner's body of work.

Great video, this takes me back. I've followed Jim Lee since Alpha Flight, and it's great to see someone else talk about it (too!) Thank you!

Jim Lee's my idol since the early 90's. I used to be the only nerd looking for details in his artwork, glad to see we all share admiration for him and Scott's amazing work and style

@ 20:00 My God. Look at all that detail in that panel. That's gotta be an inkers nightmare. Definitely a feat to behold after seeing the before and after shots you've shown. ...I can imagine the scenario for this panel went something like this: *Jim:* " Hey Scott, I got a great spread of Superman for you to Ink. You're gonna love it." *Scott:* " Sure thing. Let's have a look at...WHAT THE FUCK, JIM!"

_Pretty awesome video, I wouldn't mind see more Evolution of other Comic Artists work._

Bishop is created by Whilce Portacio. In one of Whilce's interviews, Bishop's supposed to be Filipino(one of Bishop's XSE buddies Malcolm is Filipino.).

Awesome. Great video, and merry Christmas to all

Mr Jim Lee is my favorite comic book artist. New comic book artista can learn something from jim lee art.

Thanks for posting this, Jim’s one of my favorite comic artists 👍

Enjoyed this a lot. Would love to watch one about Andy Kubert. His artwork was my childhood!

Love your show - this is great, interesting stuff. Punisher War Journal 5 was my first Jim Lee comic and I’ve been a fan ever since... 👍🏻

His X-Men stuff will never be beat

Great job, i enjoyed this very much especially the ending were u reward ur fans! Really cool of u

Very goo job on my favorite penciler great.

Awesome video. What a great idea for a video. Thank you

X-Men + ThunderCats = WildCats Ha, I was writing this when you mentioned Transformers. I always thought of ThunderCats first and foremost.

Jim Lee... I followed his career since I was a kid in the 80's. Starting from Alpha Flight, then Punisher, X-Men, then onto WilCATS. His art has greatly progressed over the decades and its a sight to behold. Reminds me of the gradual, decades long improvements to the art of another legend, George Perez.

Excellent analysis. A+.

Next is Marc Silvestri please! Or Jorge Jimenez.

This was great. Will you consider doing the evolution of another of my absolute favourite artists...Jae Lee?

Awesome job .. though I wish you would have touched on Jim's watercolor/ink wash experimentation starting in Hush .. his commissions these days using that technique are even more amazing

Your intros keep getting more and more weird and creative, keep it up, excellent video ;)

Great video as always! I hope you can make one about Darwyn Cooke one day. Merry Christmas to you and everyone going through the comments! 🎄🎅

I bought my first batch of superhero comics around 2012-2013 it was an old DC and Marvel comics of some kind. I don't remember anything from those comics except for that Cover as an ad for Superman at the back page with Jim Lee's art. I looked at the fucking background for like a good 30 mins and I still remember it.

Have been a fan of Jim's since I first saw him on his X-Men work. From there I followed him to WildC.A.T.S.! Have dug all his stuff. Divine Right is great and his Batman is Batman!

Great video! Really inspiring, I'm ready to do a few pieces now in pencil and ink just to see what happens. Jim is forever on my top 5 artists but can you do a video on my favorite of Art Adams? He has been, IMO, vastly imitated and is one of the first to bring that manga / anime flare to his work. I think he has greatly improved in some areas but you still know it's his work.

Your videos are just phenomenal.

Great video about one of my artististic influences. The analysis was great. I loved that you included the analysis of the ink style as well. I loved Lee's art work growing up. I can still remember the day my brother and I first laid eyes on the XMen #1 back in '91. Seeing that panel with the close-up of Magneto takes me back and makes me remember why I loved those books and Lee's work. I remember trying to reproduce that drawing of Magneto (like all budding artists do, they imitate their heroes). The one thing I came to notice and feel once he was at image is that everyone was copying either him or Liefeld at that company. At least that's how it seemed to me, like an over-saturization. But those Deathblow panels you showed in your video... Wow, just wow! They looked experimental. And I loved the panels from Superman Unchained especially the splash page you analyzed, inked and no ink. Just beautiful line work. Now I wanna go find that series and read it. Totally your fault. But in a good way. Thanks again for this great video and the thoughtful analysis and criticism.

Love ur channel man! Planning on doing some fanart for a while...

This channel is invaluable to comic creators

I enjoyed this technical breakdown.

Great video! Lee also drew 2 Transformers covers for Marvel back in the day.

Really enjoyed this one. Thanks!

Late to this video, but I would say you left out one inker that also did a super nice interpretation of his work while on Uncanny X-Men: Art Thibert. It is a shame Art has gone down the deep end with the CG crowd, but his talent as an inker cannot be understated. He was also the one who made Dan Jurgens' art look the best while penciling Adventures of Superman in the late 80s and early 90s.

Jim Lee is the reason I draw

really informative and entertaining content. keep it up bro!

That artwork at 14:51 is gorgeous.

Very interesting and informative, as always.

Beautiful brake down 👍👍

Awesome would love to see more videos on inker s

Never knew how important the inker was, great video. Please do some of other favorite artists like silvestri and the kubert Brothers

cool. well researched. nice gary.

Always entertaining hearing a non-pro artist talk about art. He seems quite intrigued by the work of what an inker does in this case the exceptional work of Scott Williams.

I like seeing that My Hero Academia book behind you.

Incredible!

Sandra Hope inked Jim on the Infinite Crisis covers.

Wildcats are one of my favs. Also love his work on X-men.

Great to see the commentary about Deathblow 😉

Great video!

great stuff. very detailed. subbed for sure.

4:15 - "Alpha Flight & Wolverine!" LOOOOOOOL

Great video, thank you

Muito esclarecedor seu vídeo. Parabéns!

Jim Lee is one of my favorites. XMen in the 90s. Wonderful

love the video.. thanks for the video.

Hi! You cought me making a video about Scott Williams inking job! 😂

It's worth mentioning that Jim Lee has a Twitch account that he uses to livestream himself drawing and inking. www.twitch.tv/jimlee Watching him work and how he breaks down his process is always fascinating and educational; especially when you realize that he, just like me (or any other artist), makes mistakes and has to correct-course. I strongly recommend giving it a watch, and sometimes he auctions off (or even gives away) his doodles in real-time on the stream.

I hope jim lee would come here in Philippines. Portacio always do signing every con here along with other comic artist.

His Alpha work reveals his deep love of Robotech.

I always thought of early Jim as an amalgam of Byrne and Miller. When he started with his heavy line work it looked a lot like Ronin, but especially DD 191. You didn't mention the reason Jim dropped his Deathblow style because Miller asked him to. Although Jim stopped, he brought in Tim Sale as his replacement to keep a Sin City style and develop the look he'd bring to Long Halloween. What I like about Jim is he's still experimenting and changing, if he sees something he really likes in other work. One of the clearest examples for me was on Wildcats, when his style was very much developed and refined. Walt Simonson did a Wildcats story, where he brought a highly stylised impressionistic style to the reflections on Void, which Jim immediately adopted into his own work.

Fan of this channel.