Michael W Royer is an American comics artist and inker, best known for his work with pencilers Russ Manning and Jack Kirby.
11 Facts About Mike Royer
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In later life Royer became a freelance product designer and character artist for The Walt Disney Company.
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Mike Royer was born on June 28,1941, in Lebanon, Oregon.
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Mike Royer worked, uncredited, writing and drawing the Gold Key comics Speed Buggy and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, and drew cover for the publisher's licensed Hanna-Barbera property TV Adventure Heroes.
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Mike Royer became Kirby's primary inker at DC, working on those titles and another title connected to the Fourth World series Mister Miracle, as well as on the preexisting series, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen which was incorporated into the same narrative.
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Mike Royer additionally inked Kirby's next two DC series, The Demon and Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth, and, among other Kirby projects, inked the extant war comics feature "The Losers" in several issues of Our Fighting Forces in 1975.
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Mike Royer lettered and inked the last six months of Russ Manning's Tarzan Sunday-newspaper comic strip and, in the late 1970s, the first four months of Manning's daily and Sunday Star Wars comic strips.
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Mike Royer left his staff position in June 1993 to freelance full-time for Disney, primarily on Winnie the Pooh projects.
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Since 2000, Mike Royer has produced freelance art and design, including work on Digimon products, screen icons for the Fox Family cable television channel environment and its Fox Kids programming bloc, "floor plans" for computer game animators, Reader Rabbit workbooks, and Rescue Heroes toy packaging.
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In 2018, Mike Royer was the Inkwell Awards Guest of Honor at the annual live ceremony.
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Mike Royer was awarded the Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame Award in May 2021 for his inking career.