Pat Lee

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This article is about Pat Lee, the superstar comic book artist. For the uncredited artist who actually draws all his stuff for negligible pay, see Alex Milne.

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Even his photographs have dull surprise.

Patrick C.K. "Pat" Lee (ミチヤメノテヒ フナナ Michiyamenotehi Funana) is a Canadian artist. He was the president of Dreamwave Productions and drew some of their Transformers comics, until most of his employees noticed he wasn't paying them. Subsequently, he was also the president of Dream Engine until all its employees noticed he wasn't paying them either. He's currently the president (?) of Pat Lee Productions, where it remains to be seen if he notices he isn't paying himself.

Known titles, aliases and nicknames: The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transman" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Transman">Transman</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup> Superstar Artist, Mr. Talented<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a></sup>

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History

Before the Transformers

Chillingly prophetic.

Pat Lee was born in Montreal on June 28, 1975<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a></sup>, and raised in Toronto. At the age of 16, right after graduating from high school, Lee was eager to find a job in the comic book industry, sending over 150 pages of sample aftworks to Marvel and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Comics" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:DC_Comics">DC</a>. Unfortunately for Lee, both publishers realized what a shoddy artist he was. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, however, Lee eventually managed to catch the attention of infamous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_Comics" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Image_Comics">Image Comics</a> co-founder <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Liefeld" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Rob_Liefeld">Rob Liefeld</a> at a Toronto convention in 1994, who would hire Lee (now aged 19) to work as a penciller on various titles for Liefeld's Image studio <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awesome_Comics" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Awesome_Comics">Extreme Studios</a>. After that, Pat Lee would also work for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lee" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Jim_Lee">Jim Lee's</a> Image studio <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildstorm_Productions" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Wildstorm_Productions">Wildstorm Productions</a>, as well as accepting work-for-hire assignments from Marvel (who had now apparently changed their mind regarding his artwork).

In 1996, Pat and his brother Roger decided to start their own studio within Image Comics, Dreamwave Productions, with Pat acting as the company's president. With Dreamwave, Lee would continue accepting contractual work for other publishers (such as the four-issue limited series Wolverine/Punisher: Revelation for Marvel), but also started to publish his own <strike>blatantly plagiarized</strike> originally created titles such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ghost_in_the_Shell">Darkminds</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_of_Lodoss_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Record_of_Lodoss_War">Warlands</a>. Collaborations with various magazines and advertising campaigns helped to further advance Dreamwave's reputation. Initially, the "hook" for Dreamwave's financial success was Pat's drawing style, which many readers viewed as "manga-like" (although readers of actual Japanese Mangas had a different opinion on this matter).

Transformers by Dreamwave

In 2001, Pat and Dreamwave submitted a contribution for a feature named "Big 80s" that was published in issue #111 of Wizard: The Comics Magazine, depicting Pat's own take on one of his favorite properties from his childhood days, the Transformers. Proving to be a huge hit among fans, Hasbro would consider the general art style a benchmark when they were offering the license for a new Transformers comic later that year.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a></sup> Unsurprisingly, it was Dreamwave themselves who finally acquired said license, commemorating this as a turning point in the history of their company by officially cutting all ties with Image and becoming an independent publisher on their own.

Why do Pat Lee's Transformers look like they're about to take a poop?

In addition to providing the art for various adverts, posters and covers, Pat would draw the first two Generation 1 limited series, Vol. 1 (aka "Prime Directive") and Vol. 2: War and Peace. Subsequently, he would concentrate on controlling Dreamwave as its president and spend more time on his biggest hobby, fast cars, assigning art jobs to other artists (many of them hired directly out of the fandom) instead. Lee's only other major contribution in terms of art would ultimately be some of the character profiles published in the eight-issue More Than Meets The Eye limited series.

Despite having dominated Diamond's sales charts for several subsequent months with the Transformers, Dreamwave eventually ended up in dire financial circumstances. Coinciding with rumors of unpaid freelancers, Pat Lee started to accept contractual work for Marvel and DC again, such as issues of House of M or Superman/Batman. Dreamwave eventually declared bankruptcy on January 4, 2005, blaming the weak Canadian Dollar and other scapegoats for the company's failure.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a></sup>

After Dreamwave

With Dream Engine, Lee would work on various projects such as an X-Men/Fantastic Four crossover for Marvel, issues for the Batman/Superman series for DC and a relaunch of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberforce" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Cyberforce">Cyberforce</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Cow_Productions" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Top_Cow_Productions">Top Cow</a>, another Image studio.

Eventually, Pat Lee parted ways with Dream Engine again and started his new enterprise, Pat Lee Productions.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6" title="">[7]</a></sup> Pat Lee is currently residing in Hong Kong.

Return to official Transformers work

In mid-2008, three and a half years since the collapse of Dreamwave, Lee was commissioned to do a series of illustrations for Hasbro Hong Kong to use for promotional purposes as part of their appearance at Ani-Con 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7" title="">[8]</a></sup>

Published Transformers works with Pat Lee credit

Comics

• Transformers: Generation 1 (vol. 1): Preview, #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6
• Transformers: Generation 1 vol. 2: War and Peace: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6
• Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye (G1) #1, #3, #6 (assorted profiles)
• Transformers: Armada: #6, #7
• Transformers Armada: More Than Meets The Eye (Official Guidebook): #1, #2, #3 (assorted profiles)
• 20th Anniversary Transformers Summer Special: Individual story "Welcome to the Jungle"
• assorted covers for nearly all the Dreamwave Transformers series

<div style="width: 90%; margin: 0 auto .2em auto; background-color:#efefef; border: 2px solid #eeeeee; padding: 2px; text-align: left;">Note: With the revelation of Alex Milne ghosting for Pat Lee on Top Cow's Cyberforce, artist Edwin Garcia being credited for "backgrounds" on the Generation 1 titles and at least one of his covers actually being done by a ghost artist, it's uncertain how much of the art credited to Pat Lee has actually been his work at all.

Various artworks originally created by Lee for the covers of the first Generation 1 limited series were also used by both Hasbro and Takara for their Commemorative Series and Transformers Collection series of reissues. Following the demise of Dreamwave, Hasbro would also continue to use cover artwork drawn by Lee for promotional images and various pieces of merchandise, such as a Transformers Monopoly board game. The reason for this is simply because the art has already been paid for, and is therefore cheaper to use for Hasbro than newly solicited artwork. </div>

Packaging art

Alternators

• Smokescreen
• Side Swipe

<div style="width: 90%; margin: 0 auto .2em auto; background-color:#efefef; border: 2px solid #eeeeee; padding: 2px; text-align: left;">Note: The packaging artwork for Alternators Smokescreen was also used for the profile card of Takara's Binaltech counterpart.</div>

Commemorative Series

• Series III Autobot Jazz
• Series IV Prowl
• Series IV Red Alert
• Series V Hoist
• Series V Inferno
• Series VI Autobot Grapple
• Series VII Rodimus Prime
• Series VII Dirge
• Series VIII Side Swipe

<div style="width: 90%; margin: 0 auto .2em auto; background-color:#efefef; border: 2px solid #eeeeee; padding: 2px; text-align: left;">Note: The artwork for Hoist, Inferno, Grapple, Rodimus Prime and Dirge was done specifically for these reissues; the rest was recycled from covers of Dreamwave's first Generation 1 limited series.</div>

Transformers Collection

• No.0 Convoy (Optimus Prime)
• No.1 Meister (Jazz)
• No.2 Prowl
• No.6 Megatron
• No.7 Lambor (Sideswipe)
• No.10 Soundwave
• No.12 Minibot Team
• No.16 Insectrons (Insecticons)

<div style="width: 90%; margin: 0 auto .2em auto; background-color:#efefef; border: 2px solid #eeeeee; padding: 2px; text-align: left;">Note: None of these artworks were created specifically for these reissues, but were instead recycled from old promotional posters or covers of Dreamwave's first Generation 1 limited series.</div>

Other

• Hasbro Hong Kong Ani-Con 2008 Movie Commemorative boxset certificate

Criticism and controversy

Art style

1) Draw a circle. 2) Draw Optimus Prime. 3) Give him scraplets. 4) Give him leprosy.

Pat Lee's artwork has often been the target of criticism among fans. While he was initially praised by many fans for his "manga-like" drawing style (which is heavily inspired by the character designs and visual cues used by Studio Ox), others criticized his tendency for exaggerated proportions, emphasis on rounded robot body parts, making the characters look "inflated" and marshmallow-like, a general lack of sequential storytelling skills and the overall look of his human characters (see "dull surprise" for more on that). Even his critics often admitted that his work for covers and posters was better than his actual comic book interior artwork; however, that would change soon when even his cover artwork saw a severe decline in quality starting with the second Generation 1 limited series. The introduction of other artists who would draw Transformers characters in a similar style, while avoiding many of the problems Lee was criticized for, would further shift the public opinion against Lee's artwork.

When you're being compared to Rob Liefeld, maybe it's time to quit

Lee's response to that was enforcing an internal "house style" that would force other artists to follow Pat Lee's own style more closely. Don Figueroa confirmed in an interview having received such requests from Dreamwave art director Rob Ruffolo, a guideline which Figueroa declined.<sup id="cite_ref-dontrans_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dontrans-8" title="">[9]</a></sup> Fellow artist Guido Guidi confirmed having received similar requests.<sup id="cite_ref-guidtrans_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guidtrans-9" title="">[10]</a></sup> Ruffolo himself also later confirmed the existence of an internal "house style", without specifically referring to Lee.<sup id="cite_ref-rufftrans_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rufftrans-10" title="">[11]</a></sup> The most evident example of the Dreamwave "house style" can be found in the second War Within limited series, where the original pencils by artist Andrew Wildman were drastically reworked by the inker<sup id="cite_ref-wildmanin_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wildmanin-11" title="">[12]</a></sup>, with rather disappointing results.

Even though many fans preferred other artists over Pat Lee, official Dreamwave press releases and solicitations would often titulate the company's president as a "superstar artist".<sup id="cite_ref-dwadds_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dwadds-12" title="">[13]</a></sup>

Business practices

The demise of Dreamwave didn't come overnight. The first rumors of freelancers not getting paid date back as far as October of 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-litgffreel_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-litgffreel-13" title="">[14]</a></sup> Following the closure of Dreamwave, former freelance writers Adam Patyk and James McDonough reiterated their claims that Dreamwave (not explicitly referring to Lee himself) had stopped paying them even before declaring bankruptcy. They had then filed a lawsuit against their former employer, and when that became public, they had allegedly also heard from other Dreamwave employees and freelancers who were supposedly also complaining about not being paid anymore.<sup id="cite_ref-patnram_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-patnram-14" title="">[15]</a></sup>

Aside from Patyk and McDonough, no other former Dreamwave employees or freelancers were nearly as explicit on the issue. Artist Don Figueroa only stated that Dreamwave was "getting really behind with the check" and pointed out that he "was also assured everything was cool" when he met Pat Lee in person only a month prior to the closing of Dreamwave.<sup id="cite_ref-dontrans_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dontrans-8" title="">[9]</a></sup> The latter complaint was also repeated by writer Simon Furman.<sup id="cite_ref-furmtrans_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-furmtrans-15" title="">[16]</a></sup> Likewise, artist Guido Guidi merely accused Dreamwave of a lack of "[g]ood communication", and even revealed an ambivalent attitude towards Pat Lee and his brother Roger.<sup id="cite_ref-guidtrans_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guidtrans-9" title="">[10]</a></sup> Artist James Raiz, meanwhile, claimed that he was "one of the very few who came out of Dreamwave with all [his] money."<sup id="cite_ref-raiztrans_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-raiztrans-16" title="">[17]</a></sup>

Prior to declaring bankruptcy, Pat and his brother Roger had spent four months secretly transferring most of Dreamwave's assets to a new company named Dream Engine, whose website domain was registered to Roger's name.<sup id="cite_ref-litgdreame_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-litgdreame-17" title="">[18]</a></sup> In addition, it would turn out that Lee had made sure to transfer ownership of his formerly company-owned Porsche to himself before giving up Dreamwave,<sup id="cite_ref-porsche_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-porsche-18" title="">[19]</a></sup> and had spent half a million Canadian dollars on a new luxury apartment even before the Dreamwave bankruptcy.<sup id="cite_ref-apartment_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-apartment-19" title="">[20]</a></sup> The overall amount of Dreamwave's debt was far over a million dollars.<sup id="cite_ref-litgmillion_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-litgmillion-20" title="">[21]</a></sup>

In addition, Guido Guidi and Don Figueroa later confirmed that they were additionally charged by FedEx for having shipped artwork to Dreamwave prior to the company's closure.<sup id="cite_ref-fedex_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fedex-21" title="">[22]</a></sup>

Pat Lee himself gave several interviews following the closing of Dreamwave, presenting himself as a victim of circumstance while completely dodging the issue of unpaid creators and the existence of Dream Engine.<sup id="cite_ref-patwiz_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-patwiz-22" title="">[23]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-patnram_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-patnram-14" title="">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jazma_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jazma-23" title="">[24]</a></sup>

While working with Dream Engine, Pat Lee spent a significant amount of the company's funds on the campaign of his girlfriend " class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Aimee_Chan">Aimee Chan</a>, who would eventually win the title of Miss Hong Kong in 2006. This ultimately resulted in Pat being asked by Dream Engine and his brother Roger to leave the company.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24" title="">[25</a></sup> In the fall of 2007, Aimee Chan changed her status on her <a href="http://www.alivenotdead.com/aimeechan/details.html alive not dead social networking page] to "single". Oops!

Failure to give proper credit

During the Dreamwave days, several artists confirmed that Pat Lee had only been drawing the robot characters, leaving the backgrounds entirely to (credited) assistants such as Edwin Garcia.

In 2007, it would turn out that Lee's personal involvement in his girlfriend's beauty pageant campaign had resulted in him being unable to meet deadlines for issues of Top Cow's Cyberforce series. As a consequence, Pat had asked Alex Milne to draw those issues in his stead. After a few issues, what little credit was initially given to Milne was dropped entirely, with Pat submitting the artwork under his own name instead, paying Milne merely a fragment of the money Top Cow was paying him.<sup id="cite_ref-litgmilne1_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-litgmilne1-25" title="">[26]</a></sup> In addition, Lee later asked Milne to draw artwork for DC's Superman/Batman #34 as well, again giving his underpaid ghost artist no credit.<sup id="cite_ref-litgmilne2_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-litgmilne2-26" title="">[27]</a></sup> Eventually, Top Cow found out, resulting in Pat Lee not paying Milne at all for over 20 pages of artwork.<sup id="cite_ref-deviantmilne_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-deviantmilne-27" title="">[28]</a></sup>

In late 2008, former Dreamwave editor Matt Moylan confirmed that the Silver Snail exclusive variant cover for Dreamwave's Generation One (ongoing) issue 1 that had been credited to Pat Lee had actually been drawn by a ghost artist as well.<sup id="cite_ref-g1ghost_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g1ghost-28" title="">[29]</a></sup> It's unclear whether this ghost artist had been paid for his work or not.

Attempts at cover-up

In March and April of 2008, a newly registered Wikipedia user repeatedly tried to remove any reference to the controversies surrounding Pat Lee in his own article, instead replacing them with more PR-friendly resume details.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29" title="">[30]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30" title="">[31]</a></sup> (The critical content in the Wikipedia article was later purged for other reasons, but not reverted to the blatant self-advertising Pat's own version was.)

Trivia

• Before the launch of Dreamwave's Transformers comic books, Pat expressed a certain level of ignorance with regard to the brand's history. For example, he claimed that, in retrospect, the Transformers cartoon was so amazing that it was only a matter of time before the toys were made.<sup id="cite_ref-animefringe_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-animefringe-31" title="">[32]</a></sup> In the same interview, he also admitted liking Generation 1 Sideswipe, whom he considers a "wicked character", regretting that he "died" in the movie.<sup id="cite_ref-animefringe_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-animefringe-31" title="">[32]</a></sup>

• During Dreamwave's heyday, Dreamwave press releases would constantly titulate the company's president as a "superstar artist", even after the company had started hiring various other artists, including Don Figueroa, most of whom would prove to be vastly more popular among fans than Lee.

Those fancy Japanese characters look AWESOME. Too bad I can't read them.

• Fans discovered an old personal website Pat had set up prior to the big breakthrough with Dreamwave.<sup id="cite_ref-infrarred_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-infrarred-32" title="">[33]</a></sup> In retrospect, many of the quotes and graphics featured on the site would prove to be either hilariously ironic or frighteningly prophetic, such as a promotional image depicting Pat, his brother Roger and then-Dreamwave exec Alvin Lee walking away from a nuclear explosion (see Image:Dreamwave.jpg); or a header graphic that features his name, "Patrick Lee", replaced by random Katakana characters (ミチヤメノテヒ フナナ), which read "Michiyamenotehi Funana". Soon, this would become his new nickname among fans, used exclusively in a mocking manner.
• The cause for this is almost certainly a character-replacement Katakana font, as used by someone who has no damn clue how Katakana works, nevermind ability to read it.
• If Pat Lee had any damn clue how to transliterate, the Katakana would be パトリック リー (Patorikku Rī).

• Pat Lee once set a hill on fire.<sup id="cite_ref-infrarred_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-infrarred-32" title="">[33]</a></sup>

• After the launch of Dream Engine, Lee's resume at the company's website claimed that he was responsible for relaunching "X-Men, Batman and more", thereby implying that those franchises had long lingered in a near-dead state until Superstar Funana blessed them with his divine reanimating powers.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33" title="">[34]</a></sup>

• All of the above is absolutely true. We're not kidding.

Memorable quotes by and about Pat Lee

<table align="center" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tr> <td width="20" valign="top" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;padding:9px 10px 0 10px;"> “ </td><td valign="top" style="padding:4px 10px 5px 10px;font-family: 'lucida console', arial, sans-serif;"> It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. </td><td width="20" valign="bottom" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:right;padding:10px 10px 0px 10px;"> ” </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 0"> <p style="font-size:smaller;line-height:1em;text-align: right"><cite style="font-style:normal;">—Pat Lee <sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34" title="">[35]</a></sup>.</cite>

</td></tr></table> <table align="center" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tr> <td width="20" valign="top" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;padding:9px 10px 0 10px;"> “ </td><td valign="top" style="padding:4px 10px 5px 10px;font-family: 'lucida console', arial, sans-serif;"> If he ever wants out of comics, Pat Lee's got a heck of a career as an auto mechanic. </td><td width="20" valign="bottom" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:right;padding:10px 10px 0px 10px;"> ” </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 0"> <p style="font-size:smaller;line-height:1em;text-align: right"><cite style="font-style:normal;">—Wizard Magazine<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35" title="">[36]</a></sup>.</cite>

</td></tr></table> <table align="center" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tr> <td width="20" valign="top" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;padding:9px 10px 0 10px;"> “ </td><td valign="top" style="padding:4px 10px 5px 10px;font-family: 'lucida console', arial, sans-serif;"> I remember working with Pat Lee and how kind of disappointed I was to find how little of the art was actually him. He gave me an original art page of Armada, and there’s so little art on it! </td><td width="20" valign="bottom" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:right;padding:10px 10px 0px 10px;"> ” </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 0"> <p style="font-size:smaller;line-height:1em;text-align: right"><cite style="font-style:normal;">—Simon Furman<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36" title="">[37]</a></sup></cite>

</td></tr></table> <table align="center" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tr> <td width="20" valign="top" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;padding:9px 10px 0 10px;"> “ </td><td valign="top" style="padding:4px 10px 5px 10px;font-family: 'lucida console', arial, sans-serif;"> If Pat had been some faceless bureaucrat it maybe wouldn’t now seem such an acute betrayal, but he looked me square in the eye and said everything’s hunky-dory. That’s what still, even now, burns. </td><td width="20" valign="bottom" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:right;padding:10px 10px 0px 10px;"> ” </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 0"> <p style="font-size:smaller;line-height:1em;text-align: right"><cite style="font-style:normal;">—Simon Furman<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37" title="">[38]</a></sup></cite>

</td></tr></table> <table align="center" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tr> <td width="20" valign="top" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;padding:9px 10px 0 10px;"> “ </td><td valign="top" style="padding:4px 10px 5px 10px;font-family: 'lucida console', arial, sans-serif;"> Probably the richest guy I know. </td><td width="20" valign="bottom" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:right;padding:10px 10px 0px 10px;"> ” </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 0"> <p style="font-size:smaller;line-height:1em;text-align: right"><cite style="font-style:normal;">—Don Figueroa<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38" title="">[39]</a></sup>.</cite>

</td></tr></table> <table align="center" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tr> <td width="20" valign="top" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;padding:9px 10px 0 10px;"> “ </td><td valign="top" style="padding:4px 10px 5px 10px;font-family: 'lucida console', arial, sans-serif;"> A guy that really knows how to pitch himself. </td><td width="20" valign="bottom" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:right;padding:10px 10px 0px 10px;"> ” </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 0"> <p style="font-size:smaller;line-height:1em;text-align: right"><cite style="font-style:normal;">—Guido Guidi<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39" title="">[40]</a></sup>.</cite>

</td></tr></table> <table align="center" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tr> <td width="20" valign="top" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;padding:9px 10px 0 10px;"> “ </td><td valign="top" style="padding:4px 10px 5px 10px;font-family: 'lucida console', arial, sans-serif;"> Cars are expensive. </td><td width="20" valign="bottom" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:right;padding:10px 10px 0px 10px;"> ” </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 0"> <p style="font-size:smaller;line-height:1em;text-align: right"><cite style="font-style:normal;">—Guido Guidi<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40" title="">[41]</a></sup>.</cite>

</td></tr></table> <table align="center" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tr> <td width="20" valign="top" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;padding:9px 10px 0 10px;"> “ </td><td valign="top" style="padding:4px 10px 5px 10px;font-family: 'lucida console', arial, sans-serif;"> Can we get our money? </td><td width="20" valign="bottom" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:right;padding:10px 10px 0px 10px;"> ” </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 0"> <p style="font-size:smaller;line-height:1em;text-align: right"><cite style="font-style:normal;">—Adam Patyk<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41" title="">[42]</a></sup>.</cite>

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See also

• Dull surprise

Other external links

• Infrarred
• PatLeeArt at MySpace
• Pat Lee's alive not dead profile blog site
• Pat Lee's deviantART page.
• Pat Lee's Youtube account

References

<div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2;"> <ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0">[#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://patleeart.deviantart.com/ PatLeeArt] at deviantART <li id="cite_note-1">[#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.americandreamcomics.com/index.php?itemid=1490&catid=21 Dreamwave press release] <li id="cite_note-2">[#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.alivenotdead.com/rosannewong/A+MASTER+IN+DISGUISE-ANDREW+LIN+vs+PAT+LEE-MR.+TALENTED+(round+2-2)-profile-113669.html Rosanne Wong about Pat Lee painting a mural on her apartment wall] <li id="cite_note-3">[#cite_ref-3" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/pa/infrarred/infrarred2.html Pat Lee's own biography on his old Angelfire website] <li id="cite_note-4">[#cite_ref-4" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=1365 Lying in the Gutters confirming that other publishers were interested in the Transformers license] <li id="cite_note-5">[#cite_ref-5" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.tformers.com/article.php?sid=4053 Dreamwave's final press release] <li id="cite_note-6">[#cite_ref-6" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.patleeproductions.com/main.html Pat Lee Productions] <li id="cite_note-7">[#cite_ref-7" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.alivenotdead.com/patlee/Transform+and+ROLL+OUT--profile-225643.html Pat Lee showcases his illustrations for Hasbro on his blog.] <li id="cite_note-dontrans-8">↑ ^{[#cite_ref-dontrans_8-0" title="">9.0</a>} ^{<a href="#cite_ref-dontrans_8-1" title="">9.1</a>} <a href="http://transfans.net/interviews_figueroa.php Interview with Don Figueroa] <li id="cite_note-guidtrans-9">↑ ^{[#cite_ref-guidtrans_9-0" title="">10.0</a>} ^{<a href="#cite_ref-guidtrans_9-1" title="">10.1</a>} <a href="http://transfans.net/interviews_guido.php Interview with Guido Guidi] <li id="cite_note-rufftrans-10">[#cite_ref-rufftrans_10-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://transfans.net/interviews_ruffolo.php Interview with Rob Ruffolo] <li id="cite_note-wildmanin-11">[#cite_ref-wildmanin_11-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://transfans.net/interviews_wildman.php Transfans interview with Andrew Wildman] <li id="cite_note-dwadds-12">[#cite_ref-dwadds_12-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/comics-16/dreamwave-adds-transformers-creators-2492/ The infamous "Dreamwave Adds Transformers Creators" press release] <li id="cite_note-litgffreel-13">[#cite_ref-litgffreel_13-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=14548 Lying in the Gutters reporting on early rumors of Dreamwave artists not getting paid] <li id="cite_note-patnram-14">↑ ^{[#cite_ref-patnram_14-0" title="">15.0</a>} ^{<a href="#cite_ref-patnram_14-1" title="">15.1</a>} <a href="http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=39073 Interview with writers Adam Patyk and James McDonough] <li id="cite_note-furmtrans-15">[#cite_ref-furmtrans_15-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://transfans.net/interviews_furman3.php Interview with Simon Furman] <li id="cite_note-raiztrans-16">[#cite_ref-raiztrans_16-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://transfans.net/interviews_raiz.php Interview with James Raiz] <li id="cite_note-litgdreame-17">[#cite_ref-litgdreame_17-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2059 Lying in the Gutters discovering the existence of Dream Engine] <li id="cite_note-porsche-18">[#cite_ref-porsche_18-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2184 Lying in the Gutters reporting on the Pat Lee Porsche story] <li id="cite_note-apartment-19">[#cite_ref-apartment_19-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://comicbooks.org/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2203 Lying in the Gutters reporting on Pat Lee's new apartment] <li id="cite_note-litgmillion-20">[#cite_ref-litgmillion_20-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?article=2102 Lying in the Gutters' list of Dreamwave's creditors] <li id="cite_note-fedex-21">[#cite_ref-fedex_21-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050507073425/http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/thread73039.html Archived TFW2005 thread with Guido Guidi and Don Figueroa confirming the FedEx story] <li id="cite_note-patwiz-22">[#cite_ref-patwiz_22-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20061120012852/http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/000230624.cfm Archived Wizard interview with Pat Lee] <li id="cite_note-jazma-23">[#cite_ref-jazma_23-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.jazmaonline.com/interviews/interviews2.asp?intID=318 Jazma Online interview with Pat Lee, April 2006] <li id="cite_note-24">[#cite_ref-24" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2575 Lying in the Gutters reporting on Pat Lee's involvement with Aimee Chan] <li id="cite_note-litgmilne1-25">[#cite_ref-litgmilne1_25-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=15355 Lying in the Gutters reporting on Alex Milne ghosting for Pat Lee] <li id="cite_note-litgmilne2-26">[#cite_ref-litgmilne2_26-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=15547 Lying in the Gutters reporting on Alex Milne ghosting for Pat Lee even more] <li id="cite_note-deviantmilne-27">[#cite_ref-deviantmilne_27-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://hombreimaginario.deviantart.com/art/Interviews-06-Alex-Milne-64254823 Interview with Alex Milne on DeviantArt] <li id="cite_note-g1ghost-28">[#cite_ref-g1ghost_28-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/2407689-post83.html Matt Moylan confirming that the Silver Snail exclusive G1 vol. 3 #1 cover had been drawn by a ghost artist too.] <li id="cite_note-29">[#cite_ref-29" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Hyrocomics Contributions by Wikipedia user "Hyrocomics"] <li id="cite_note-30">[#cite_ref-30" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/219.78.200.95 Contributions by IP 209.70.200.95] <li id="cite_note-animefringe-31">↑ ^{[#cite_ref-animefringe_31-0" title="">32.0</a>} ^{<a href="#cite_ref-animefringe_31-1" title="">32.1</a>} <a href="http://www.animefringe.com/magazine/01.03/feature/2/index.php3 Interview with animefringe.com] <li id="cite_note-infrarred-32">↑ ^{[#cite_ref-infrarred_32-0" title="">33.0</a>} ^{<a href="#cite_ref-infrarred_32-1" title="">33.1</a>} <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/pa/infrarred/ Infrarred] <small title="source in context">[sic]</small> Pat Lee's Angelfire homepage <li id="cite_note-33"><a href="#cite_ref-33" title="">↑</a> Pat's resume at the now defunct Dreamengine website. <li id="cite_note-34">[#cite_ref-34" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.jazmaonline.com/interviews/interviews2.asp?intID=318 Jazma Online Interview] <li id="cite_note-35">[#cite_ref-35" title="">↑</a> Verbatim quote from a <strike><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/dailyraider/patlee.jpg butt-kissing advert]</strike> article published in an issue of Wizard Magazine. <li id="cite_note-36"><a href="#cite_ref-36" title="">↑</a> Talking about memorable experiences, <a href="http://idwpublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=42871#42871" class="external free" title="http://idwpublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=42871#42871" rel="nofollow">http://idwpublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=42871#42871</a> <li id="cite_note-37"><a href="#cite_ref-37" title="">↑</a> Online interview talking about the collapse of Dreamwave <li id="cite_note-38">[#cite_ref-38" title="">↑</a> Word Association with the name "Pat Lee" from an <a href="http://transfans.net/interviews_figueroa.php interview] with TransFans.net. <li id="cite_note-39">[#cite_ref-39" title="">↑</a> Word Association with the name "Pat Lee" from an <a href="http://transfans.net/interviews_guido.php interview] with TransFans.net. <li id="cite_note-40">[#cite_ref-40" title="">↑</a> Word Association with the name "Dreamwave" from an <a href="http://transfans.net/interviews_guido.php interview] with TransFans.net. <li id="cite_note-41">[#cite_ref-41" title="">↑</a> Patyk's response to the question "If you could talk to Pat directly right now, what would you ask of him?" in an <a href="http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=39073 interview] with Newsarama.</ol></div>