Ron Lim

Ronald Lim (born 1965) is an American comic book artist living in Sacramento, California. He is best known for his work for Marvel Comics on their various "cosmic" titles, most particularly the Silver Surfer (vol. 3) series.

Biography Lim's interest in comics began as a child, when he read comics and drew his favorite heroes, including Batman and the Fantastic Four.

His first published work was for the independent comic title called Shadow Star issue #3 which was the first ever release from long time Independent publisher Slave Labor Graphics. followed by The Eradicators' (Silverwolf Comics) May 1986 (indicia). The success of Eradicators issue #1 gaveLim the opportunity to publish his own creation Ex-Mutants, for which he worked on from 1986 to 1988.

He was "discovered" by Marvel at a 1987 comic convention, and was hired on the spot.

Lim was a founding contributor to the ill-fated publisher Future Comics, and in 2002 penciled their fourth series, Metallix, for six issues.

Lim returned to Marvel in the 2000s illustrating several series associated with Marvel and Tom DeFalco's MC2 imprint, including Avengers Next, J2 and the Fantastic Five. He contributed art in 2007 to the comic adaptation of Laurell K. Hamilton's Guilty Pleasures, and since 2016 has been regularly providing variant covers for various Marvel one-shots, mini-series and event comics.