Lee Moyer
Encyclopedia
Lee Moyer is an American
painter
, illustrator
, graphic designer
, Web design
er, and comic book
painter and designer.
Moyer considers his primary influences to be Art Nouveau
, Art Deco
, Arts & Crafts
, propaganda art, and the Pre-Raphaelites.
, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox
, Discovery Channel
, Electronic Arts
, Hasbro
, DDB Worldwide
, Upper Deck
, CareerBuilder
, BET
, McGraw Hill, Alliance Theatre, Dark Horse
, IDW Publishing
, Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
, and the National Zoo.
He has done commissioned posters which evoke the style of Alphonse Mucha for musicians such as Tori Amos
and Melissa Auf der Maur
(Hole
, Smashing Pumpkins). Moyer did a signing of the poster with Melissa Auf der Maur on July 22, 2010, at the San Diego Comic-Con International.
20th Century Fox commissioned him to create eight Laurel and Hardy
paintings for the covers of their DVD box set collections.
His digital work was featured with 13 leading graphic designers in the exhibition, "PIXEL: Artists Who Use the Computer".
Moyer painted the cover for the documentary, "Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown", a profile of author H.P. Lovecraft and the impact of his Cthulhu
books on culture by director Frank H. Woodward.
His artwork has been featured in leading arts periodicals such as Communication Arts
, Design Graphics Magazine, D’Artiste - Digital Painting, Spectrums (#12, 13, 15, 16, and 17), and the Smithsonian Institution
.
The New York Times nominated his work for a Webby Award in 1999.
Lee Moyer has done writing, color art, and design for the critically acclaimed science fiction series, Starstruck, with author Elaine Lee
and illustrator Michael Wm. Kaluta.
In 1990, Moyer contributed the story summary prefaces for the Dark Horse
series, Starstruck: The Expanding Universe.
In 2009, he was instrumental in reviving the series for IDW Publishing
, after showing artist Kaluta samples of how the series could be redone with Moyer's painterly color. IDW released a remastered series of 13 issues from August 2009 to September, 2010; these featured expanded art by Kaluta, a complete recoloring of the series in Moyer's painting style, and unpublished back-up stories of the Galactic Girl Guides colored by Moyer. Lee Moyer also reformatted word balloons and archival art, as well as designing new ancillary art.
The IDW remastered series was collected as a large-format hardcover omnibus called the Starstruck Deluxe Edition and released by IDW on March 29, 2011. ISBN 0-88145-023-5
Elaine Lee collaborated with Lee Moyer on the book design and layouts for the Starstruck Deluxe Edition. For three decades, Elaine Lee and Michael Wm. Kaluta have been the sole copyright owners and creators of the series, but they felt that Moyer's contribution was so important that he was listed as a co-creator for the collected book.
Moyer also did the color for the wraparound cover of the Starstruck Audioplay
CD, a cast recording of the original Starstruck play, that was produced and sold by The AudioComics Company as a CD and MP3 download in October, 2010.
Color
Lee Moyer has done the color work on covers for various publishers like DC
and Moonstone
:
For Moonstone Books
, Moyer did original digitally painted covers for Elaine Lee's story, "Murder On Mars", in Honey West #3, 4, and 5. These paintings homaged Pulp magazine
covers, '50s science fiction posters, and '60s paperback book covers. Additionally, he did three original covers for the Buckaroo Banzai
series, including the cover for the graphic novel collection, "Buckaroo Banzai: Return Of The Screw".
People of the United States
The people of the United States, also known as simply Americans or American people, are the inhabitants or citizens of the United States. The United States is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds...
painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
, graphic designer
Graphic designer
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...
, Web design
Web design
Web design is the process of planning and creating a website. Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are used by web designers to produce the page seen on the web browser...
er, and comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
painter and designer.
Biography
Lee Moyer began his initial painting training using the mediums of watercolor and oils. In 1989, he expanded into the digital art realm, which has become his premiere medium as a painter and illustrator. While building his freelance career and expanding his skill set, he worked for ten years as a Docent & Naturalist Illustrator at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.Moyer considers his primary influences to be Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that were most popular during 1890–1910. The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art"...
, Art Deco
Art Deco
Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...
, Arts & Crafts
Arts and Crafts movement
Arts and Crafts was an international design philosophy that originated in England and flourished between 1860 and 1910 , continuing its influence until the 1930s...
, propaganda art, and the Pre-Raphaelites.
Illustration
Lee Moyer has done commissioned illustration for an array of major corporate clients, including Paramount PicturesParamount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...
, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...
, Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...
, Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...
, Hasbro
Hasbro
Hasbro is a multinational toy and boardgame company from the United States of America. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world. The corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States...
, DDB Worldwide
DDB Worldwide
DDB Worldwide Communications Group Inc., known internationally as DDB, is a worldwide marketing communications network. It is owned by Omnicom Group Inc, one of the world's largest advertising holding companies...
, Upper Deck
Upper Deck Company
The Upper Deck Company, LLC , founded in 1988, is a private company primarily known for producing trading cards...
, CareerBuilder
CareerBuilder
CareerBuilder.com is the largest online employment website in the United States, with more than 23 million unique visitors each month and a 34% market share of help-wanted web sites in the United States. CareerBuilder.com provides online career search services for more than 1,900 partners as of...
, BET
Bet
Bet or BET may refer to:* A wager in gambling* Basic Economics Test * Bet , the second letter in many Semitic alphabets, including Aramaic, Hebrew, Phoenician and Syriac* Brunauer-Emmett-Teller isotherm. See BET_theory...
, McGraw Hill, Alliance Theatre, Dark Horse
Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
, IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...
, Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
Broadway Play Publishing Inc, along with Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, Inc., and Samuel French Inc., is one of the four major New York play publishers and licensors of stage rights...
, and the National Zoo.
He has done commissioned posters which evoke the style of Alphonse Mucha for musicians such as Tori Amos
Tori Amos
Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
and Melissa Auf der Maur
Melissa Auf der Maur
Melissa Auf der Maur is a Canadian rock musician from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her career has included 5 years as bassist with the band Hole and she later toured with The Smashing Pumpkins for their 2000 tour. Her second solo album, Out of Our Minds, was released on March 30, 2010. She is also a...
(Hole
Hole (band)
Hole is an American alternative rock band that originally formed in Los Angeles in 1989. The band is fronted by vocalist/songwriter and rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, who co-founded Hole with former songwriter/lead guitarist Eric Erlandson...
, Smashing Pumpkins). Moyer did a signing of the poster with Melissa Auf der Maur on July 22, 2010, at the San Diego Comic-Con International.
20th Century Fox commissioned him to create eight Laurel and Hardy
Laurel and Hardy
Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema...
paintings for the covers of their DVD box set collections.
His digital work was featured with 13 leading graphic designers in the exhibition, "PIXEL: Artists Who Use the Computer".
Moyer painted the cover for the documentary, "Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown", a profile of author H.P. Lovecraft and the impact of his Cthulhu
Cthulhu
Cthulhu is a fictional character that first appeared in the short story "The Call of Cthulhu", published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928. The character was created by writer H. P...
books on culture by director Frank H. Woodward.
His artwork has been featured in leading arts periodicals such as Communication Arts
Communication Arts
Communication Arts is the largest international trade journal of visual communications. Founded in 1959 by Richard Coyne and Robert Blanchard, the magazine’s coverage includes graphic design, advertising, photography, illustration and interactive media. The magazine continues to be edited and...
, Design Graphics Magazine, D’Artiste - Digital Painting, Spectrums (#12, 13, 15, 16, and 17), and the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
.
The New York Times nominated his work for a Webby Award in 1999.
Comics
StarstruckLee Moyer has done writing, color art, and design for the critically acclaimed science fiction series, Starstruck, with author Elaine Lee
Elaine Lee
Elaine Lee is an American actor, playwright, comic book colorist and comic book writer.-Theatre:She received a 1980 Daytime EMMY nomination for her role on NBC-TV’s The Doctors and was a founding member and artistic director of Manhattan-based theatre company, Wild Hair Productions.Wild Hair began...
and illustrator Michael Wm. Kaluta.
In 1990, Moyer contributed the story summary prefaces for the Dark Horse
Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
series, Starstruck: The Expanding Universe.
In 2009, he was instrumental in reviving the series for IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...
, after showing artist Kaluta samples of how the series could be redone with Moyer's painterly color. IDW released a remastered series of 13 issues from August 2009 to September, 2010; these featured expanded art by Kaluta, a complete recoloring of the series in Moyer's painting style, and unpublished back-up stories of the Galactic Girl Guides colored by Moyer. Lee Moyer also reformatted word balloons and archival art, as well as designing new ancillary art.
The IDW remastered series was collected as a large-format hardcover omnibus called the Starstruck Deluxe Edition and released by IDW on March 29, 2011. ISBN 0-88145-023-5
Elaine Lee collaborated with Lee Moyer on the book design and layouts for the Starstruck Deluxe Edition. For three decades, Elaine Lee and Michael Wm. Kaluta have been the sole copyright owners and creators of the series, but they felt that Moyer's contribution was so important that he was listed as a co-creator for the collected book.
Moyer also did the color for the wraparound cover of the Starstruck Audioplay
Starstruck (play)
This is the article on the play. For the comics series, see Starstruck .Starstruck is a 1980 science fiction comedy play written by Elaine Lee, with contributions from Susan Norfleet Lee and Dale Place. It was performed in New York City in 1980 and 1983, and spawned an ongoing comics series and...
CD, a cast recording of the original Starstruck play, that was produced and sold by The AudioComics Company as a CD and MP3 download in October, 2010.
- Starstruck: The Expanding Universe (Dark Horse): written prefaces
- Starstruck: Remastered (IDW): color and design
- Galactic Girl Guides (IDW): color
- Starstruck Audioplay: color
- Starstruck Deluxe Edition, 2011 (IDW): color and design
Color
Lee Moyer has done the color work on covers for various publishers like DC
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
and Moonstone
Moonstone Books
Moonstone Books is an American comic book, graphic novel, and prose fiction publisher based in Chicago focused on pulp fiction comic books and prose anthologies as well as horror and western tales....
:
- Tom StrongTom StrongTom Strong is a comic book created by writer Alan Moore and artist Chris Sprouse initially published bi-monthly by America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics' Wildstorm division.-Background:Tom Strong, the title character, is a "science hero"...
's Terrific Tales #9 (interior story color, with Michael Kaluta, ABC/Wildstorm) - AquamanAquamanAquaman is a fictional superhero who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger, the character debuted in More Fun Comics #73 . Initially a backup feature in DC's anthology titles, Aquaman later starred in several volumes of a solo title...
#51 (with Michael Kaluta, DC) - CatwomanCatwomanCatwoman is a fictional character associated with DC Comics' Batman franchise. Historically a supervillain, the character was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, partially inspired by Kane's cousin, Ruth Steel...
(with Pete WoodsPete WoodsPeter "Pete" Woods is a comic book artist, illustrator and penciller. He is best known for his work on titles such as Backlash, Deadpool, Robin, Catwoman, Amazons Attack and Action Comics.-Biography:...
, DC)
For Moonstone Books
Moonstone Books
Moonstone Books is an American comic book, graphic novel, and prose fiction publisher based in Chicago focused on pulp fiction comic books and prose anthologies as well as horror and western tales....
, Moyer did original digitally painted covers for Elaine Lee's story, "Murder On Mars", in Honey West #3, 4, and 5. These paintings homaged Pulp magazine
Pulp magazine
Pulp magazines , also collectively known as pulp fiction, refers to inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s. The typical pulp magazine was seven inches wide by ten inches high, half an inch thick, and 128 pages long...
covers, '50s science fiction posters, and '60s paperback book covers. Additionally, he did three original covers for the Buckaroo Banzai
Buckaroo Banzai
Buckaroo Banzai is the lead character, played by Peter Weller, of the eponymous 1984 cult film, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. A renaissance man, the character is a top neurosurgeon, particle physicist, race car driver, rock star and comic book hero, and probably the...
series, including the cover for the graphic novel collection, "Buckaroo Banzai: Return Of The Screw".