Tom Lyle facts for kids
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Lyle in 2015
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| Born | Thomas Stanford Lyle November 2, 1953 Jacksonville, Florida |
| Died | November 19, 2019 (aged 66) |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer, Penciller |
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Notable works
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The Comet Robin Spider-Man Starman |
| http://tomlyle.blogspot.com/ | |
Thomas Stanford Lyle (born November 2, 1953 – died November 19, 2019) was an American comics artist. He was famous for his amazing artwork on popular comic series. These included Starman and Robin for DC Comics. He also worked on Spider-Man for Marvel Comics.
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Tom Lyle's Comic Art Journey
Tom Lyle started his career in comics in the mid-1980s. He began by drawing for companies like Eclipse Comics. Some of his early works included Airboy, Strike!, and Airwolf.
Drawing for DC Comics
From 1988 to 1990, Tom Lyle drew for DC Comics. He worked on the Starman series with writer Roger Stern. In Starman #9 (April 1989), they introduced a new villain called the second Blockbuster.
Lyle also worked on the very first solo Robin comic series. He teamed up with writer Chuck Dixon for this project. The series was so popular that it was printed many times. It also led to two more mini-series: Robin II: Joker's Wild and Robin III: Cry of the Huntress. The same creative team worked on these sequels.
Dixon and Lyle also helped create new characters for DC Comics. They created the Electrocutioner in Detective Comics #644 (May 1992). They also introduced Stephanie Brown in Detective Comics #647 (August 1992).
In 1991, Tom Lyle worked on The Comet for DC's Impact Comics. He drew the pictures and helped plan the stories. Mark Waid wrote the scripts for these comics.
Adventures with Marvel Comics
In 1993, Tom Lyle began working for Marvel Comics. He became the main artist for Spider-Man. During this time, he designed a special costume for the Scarlet Spider. This costume was a blue hoodie and red spandex. The Scarlet Spider was a clone of Spider-Man.
Lyle also helped create another character named Annex. This character appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #27. Lyle worked with writer Jack C. Harris on this.
He also drew a three-issue mini-series called Venom: Funeral Pyre. This series featured the Punisher and introduced a new villain called Pyre.
Tom Lyle's other work for Marvel included the Punisher series from 1995 to 1997. He worked with writer John Ostrander on this. In 1998, he wrote and drew a mini-series about Warlock. He also drew issues of Mutant X in 2000 and 2001.
Beyond Superheroes
In 2000, Tom Lyle drew several issues of Star Wars for Dark Horse Comics.
In 2004, he was the artist for the Chickasaw Adventures series. This series was made for the Chickasaw Nation.
From 2005 until he passed away in 2019, Tom Lyle shared his knowledge with others. He taught sequential art at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Sequential art is the art of telling stories through pictures, like in comics.
