Mike Lilly is a New York City based 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.
Lilly's critically acclaimed run on Vampirella Revelations from Harris
Comics won him a Best Black and White Illustration Art Show Award of
Excellence from I-CON 25. He is currently at work on his creator owned
WWII pulp adventure entitled The Mercury Chronicles with co-creator
Vito Delsante.
He has also 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, The Financial Times Style section, Ocean
Drive Magazine, Wizard Magazine and The New York Post.
Mike is most known in the Star Wars community for his illustrated
and highly sought after Star Wars Heritage original art sketch cards
from Topps, Inc. His cards are the rarest in that line. 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.
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.
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