Tony Lee

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Tony Lee (born 30 June 1970) is a British writer. Born in Hillingdon, Middlesex, he now lives in Birmingham, West Midlands.

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[edit] Biography

Following many years writing short pieces for magazines, radio and television, in 2003 Tony turned his attention towards comics. Since then, his stories have appeared under several publishers including Marvel Comics, Mongoose Publishing, Games Workshop and Panini Comics, and he has worked on such licenses as X-Men, Doctor Who, Starship Troopers and Mark Hazzard - MERC. He is currently a freelance writer for a number of publishers, and on the 22nd January it was announced that he was the new Group Editor for Markosia. He has since stepped down. (See below)


An ongoing Starship Troopers series by Tony Lee for Markosia was announced in November 2006. The series began in April 2007. Tony quit the title after issue #4 however, claiming that one of his first jobs as Group Editor was to "fire myself after a better writer arrived."[citation needed]


Labeled as "One of the fastest rising stars among the new generation of British comic writers" by Comics International, his published creator-owned work includes the critically acclaimed The Gloom, Hope Falls and Midnight Kiss, featuring Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius and the magical land of Oz.


Reviews for The Gloom #1 included "Buy this comic - sell a kidney if you have to." [1] Michael Moorcock himself said of Midnight Kiss - "One of the richest, most original, engaging and fast-moving graphic stories of the new century. Matt Sable and Nightmare are the greatest team of Ghoul-Busters ever to hit the printed page." [2]


The Gloom was cancelled when the publisher, APC folded - but there is still hope that one day another publisher will publish a collected trade. In the meantime, the series is being serialised every Friday at The Chemistry Set.


In spring 2009 his first Original Graphic Novel (OGN) for Walker Books is released - Robin Hood - Outlaw's Pride, a 21st century retelling of the classic story. Art is by Sam Hart.


In addition he has another OGN out in mid/late 2009 with AiT/PlanetLar called Dodge & Twist - a loosely based 'sequel' to Oliver Twist that is quoted as being "Oceans Eleven meets Charles Dickens".


In November 2007 his mini series Hope Falls was released by Markosia to critical acclaim. A supernatural thriller, art duties were performed by long time collaborator Dan Boultwood. A five-part monthly title, Hope Falls ran until March 2008. A collected edition is expected in late 2008.


He has adapted several novels into comics including G.P. Taylor's Shadowmancer, Wendy Alec's Brothers - The Fall of Lucifer, Anthony Horowitz's Power Of Five series and G.P. Taylor's Tizzle Sisters.


In September 2007 it was announced that Tony will be writing a six part Warrior Nun Areala series for Antarctic Press called "Excommunicated", for release in late 2008.


In October 2007 it was announced that he was stepping down as Group Editor of Markosia after ten months. It was also announced that Tony is writing for Rebellion, with a Tales Of The Black Museum one shot and a five part series called Citi-Def: Field Trip for Judge Dredd Megazine, with art by Jack Lawrence.[citation needed] In addition to this, Tony has announced that he is writing a long term series for 2000 AD called Stalag #666, out in August 2008.[citation needed]


In December 2007 it was announced that Tony would be writing a six part Doctor Who story for IDW called Doctor Who: The Forgotten.[citation needed] Nothing is known as yet except for the cryptic statement that although a Tenth Doctor story, it would involve more than one Doctor.[citation needed] Art duties are by Y The Last Man artist Pia Guerra.


In January 2008 it was announced in Lying In The Gutters that Tony had written a one-shot adult comedy called MILF Magnet for Moonstone Publishing.[citation needed]


In June 2008 he had a ten page story in Spider Man Family #9, published by Marvel comics.


He has two stories upcoming in The DFC - The Prince Of Baghdad with Dan Boultwood and St Spookys with Rob Guillory.


Outside of comics themselves, up until January 2007 Tony wrote a monthly column called Its Only a Comic for Comics International. His last issue was January's #201, when it was decided that his new position could cause conflicts with his column.


From February 5th 2007, Two Drunk Guys In A Bar was published every two weeks on alternate Mondays, on Internet news site Comics Bulletin. This column also involved longtime collaborator Dan Boultwood. This was ceased however in October 2007 when the website announced a major revamp, and Tony announced that a new column would appear post revamp called He's Only A Writer.


Tony is now well known for his work in the field of graphic novels. However he was also an established member of the English Neo-pagan movement in the nineties.[citation needed] Tony has given talks on a whole host of areas of interest, including his thoughts on the path of the bard (distinct from modern Druidry).[citation needed] Tony also played, from 1996 – 1999, with the pagan satirist Paul Mitchell in the duo “’The Astaroth, Astaroth, Astaroth, Hey That’s a Good Name for a Band’ Band”.

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[edit] Comics

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[edit] Markosia Publishing

  • Starship Troopers:
    • "Blaze of Glory" (with Sam Hart, previously published through Mongoose Publishing)
    • "Dead Man's Hand" (with Neil Edwards)
    • "Damaged Justice" (with Shanth Enjeti/Sam Hart)
  • Starship Troopers - Ongoing series (with Chris Dibari) - from April 2007 - four issues.
  • The Gloom (with Dan Boultwood, 5-issue mini-series)
  • Midnight Kiss (with Ryan Stegman/Kieran Oats, 5-issue mini-series)
  • Shadowmancer (with G.P. Taylor/Pedro Delgado/Ian Sharman, 10 part adaptation)
  • Brothers - The Fall of Lucifer (with Wendy Alec/Sam Hart)- cancelled
  • The Tizzle Sisters (with G.P. Taylor and Dan Boultwood, graphic novel/prose hybrid)
  • Hope Falls (with Dan Boultwood, 5-issue mini-series) - from November 2007

[edit] Walker Books

[edit] AiT/PlanetLar

  • Dodge & Twist (with Paul Peart, 140 page OGN , out 2009)

[edit] Titan Comics

[edit] Rebellion

[edit] Other

[edit] Awards & Awards Controversy

  • 2005: Midnight Kiss nominated in the "Favourite Small Press Colour Comicbook (British)" Eagle Award
  • 2006: Starship Troopers nominated in the "Favorite Color Comic Book (British)" Eagle Award
  • 2007:
    • Starship Troopers & Hope Falls nominated in the "Favorite Color Comic Book (British)" Eagle Award
    • Hope Falls nominated in the "Favorite New Comic Book" Eagle Award
    • Tony Lee nominated in the "Favorite Newcomer Writer" Eagle Award

In an interview for Rich Johnston's Lying in the Gutters, Lee answered accusations of ballot stuffing that had seen himself and his long time collaborator Dan Boultwood stripped of their nominations in some categories of the 2008 awards. Lying in the Gutters 4-14-2008

They were later cleared of any wrongdoings and in front of a packed auditorium, Eagles Organiser Mike Conroy made a public apology to both Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood at the start of the Award ceremony.[citation needed]

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