“I love creating worlds and peopling them with compelling characters”
Elaine Lee has had incarnations as an EMMY-nominated actress and playwright, artistic director of a theatre company, comic book writer and color artist, animation writer and story editor, video game writer and director of motion capture, art director for a music company, marketing director for an arts organization, co-author of a humorous self-help book and writer/producer with AudioComics, now a division of Pocket Universe Productions, a company that produces full-cast audio dramas based on comics, graphic novels and genre fiction. Specializing in sci-fi, fantasy and horror, Elaine has created six original comic series (BrainBanx, Skin Tight Orbit, The Transmutation of Ike Garuda) and has written for a number of other titles (Indiana Jones, Prince Valiant, Ragman). She is best known as writer/creator of Vamps (with artist Will Simpson, for DC/Vertigo) and Starstruck (with artist Michael Kaluta, for Heavy Metal, Marvel, Dark Horse, IDW). Lee and Kaluta produced a Starstruck spin-off, The Galactic Girl Guides, for Dave Stevens’ Rocketeer Adventure Magazine (Comico), the stories recently collected in the Starstruck Deluxe Edition from IDW, with new stories currently in the works. Elaine has written animation scripts for Niolan, A-Film and Stardust Entertainment/Hallmark Entertainment. She has blogged about creator-owned comics for the Huffington Post. Currently, she’s finishing work on a fantasy novel and watching her son, Brennan Lee Mulligan, tell stories set in the Starstruck Multiverse on his show, Dimension 20.