Titan Books has announced the San Diego Comic-Con launch of Icons: The DC Comics and Wildstorm Art of Jim Lee ($39.95).  Bill Baker, who conducted new interviews with Jim Lee, provides the commentary for this volume, which includes full color reproductions of Lee's stunning renderings of such popular superheroes as Superman, Batman, WildC.A.T.s and Deathblow, as well as examples of his stellar pencil technique.

 

Icons is not just a retrospective -- in addition to a brand new cover illustration by Lee, the volume also includes a new 12-page full color story written by Paul Levitz, the President and Publisher of DC Comics. 

 

A Titan spokesperson described the volume as its biggest release of 2008.  The book will be available worldwide from September, 2008.