Mike Lilly is an American

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artist known for his work on books such as '' Annihilation: Conquest'', ''

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'', '' Vampirella'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Marvel Knights'', '' Punisher'', ''

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'', '' Green Lantern'', ''

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'', and '' Dungeons & Dragons''.

Career

In 2005 Lilly and writer

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produced the creator owned

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pulp adventure, ''The Mercury Chronicles''. He has 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 ''

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'' Real Estate section, The

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Style section, ''Ocean Drive'' Magazine, '' Wizard Magazine'' and The ''

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''.

Lilly also illustrated ''

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Heritage'' original art sketch cards from

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, Inc. Lilly’s original art sketch cards can also be seen for the ''Revenge of the Sith'' trading card line, ''

The Lord of the Rings ''The Lord of the Rings'' is an epic high-fantasy novel by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. Set in Middle-earth, intended to be Earth at some time in the distant past, the story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's boo ...

'' ''Evolution'' and Masterpieces series,

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from

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, The Vintage Poster Collection sketch cards from Breygent, The Complete

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from

Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is an American comic book publishing, publisher and the flagship property of Marvel Entertainment, a divsion of The Walt Disney Company since September 1, 2009. Evolving from Timely Comics in 1939, ''Magazine Management/Atlas Co ...

/Rittenhouse Archives and DC Legacy archive editions from

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. From 2002 to 2005, Lilly worked on a number of ''Batman''-related titles for

, including ''Batman Special'' #1, ''

'' #788-798 and ''

'' #82, 85 and 94 - 97. From 2005 - 2006, Lilly illustrated the '' Vampirella Revelations'' miniseries for

Harris Comics Harris Publications Inc. was an American special interest media company, operating over 75 brands with print, digital, mobile and live event platforms prior to its sale to Athlon Media in 2016. It produced magazines that educate, entertain, inf ...

. In 2007 Lilly illustrated the '' Annihilation: Conquest: Quasar'' miniseries for

. In 2008 Lilly signed an exclusive contract with Dynamite Entertainment, for whom he did work on ''

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''.

Personal life

Lilly is based in New York City. He has a son named Robert."Mike Lilly"
SciFi Hobby. Rittenhouse Archives Ltd. Retrieved June 28, 2013.

References

External links

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Mike Lilly Art Facebook
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Interviews

Mike Lilly Exposed!
- Alvaro's Comic Boards Mike Lilly interview with Randy Burtis. *St. Martin, Michelle (June 29, 2008)
"Mike Lilly Big Apple Pt2 "

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"The Comic Book Novice interviews Mike Lilly "
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