George Pérez

George Pérez ( born June 9, 1954 in New York City ) is an American comic book artist and writer.

  • 2.1 Working for DC
  • 2.2 works for Marvel

Life and work

Beginnings and early work

Pérez, who comes from a come in the 1940s in the United States Puerto Rican immigrant family, was born in 1954 in New York City, where he grew up in an inhabited mainly by immigrants part of the Bronx.

In the 1970s, Pérez, who is known for his clean, dynamic, realistic trained in its beginnings to Jack Kirby drawing style to work as a professional comic artist began. His first works he laid it before the series Sons of the Tiger, which was published by Marvel Comics in the comic magazine Deadly Hands of Kung Fu. As the author of the visualized Pérez stories here acted the established names writer Bill Mantlo. Together with Mantlo created Pérez also the fictional character of the adventurer White Tiger.

Getting more attention Pérez learned in the later 1970s as a signatory of, also appearing in the program of Marvel Comics, successful superhero series The Avengers, which he illustrated a number of years, beginning with issue # 141.

Another work for Marvel in the 1970s was Perez's work on the series Fantastic Four, which marked his first collaboration with his longtime partner Marv Wolfman main artistic. End of the decade Pérez moved to Marvel's competition Publisher DC Comics, for whom he initially as a draftsman working on the series Justice League of America, for which he sat authored primarily by Gerry Conway stories into the picture before The collaboration with Wolfman the rebooted series New Teen Titans took over.

Pérez's work in the 1980s

New Teen Titans, DC's " counter- project" to the then highly successful X - Men series from Marvel, was directed by Wolfman, who acted as the main author of the series, and Pérez, who also first appeared alongside the drawings as a co -author within a short time became the most popular and best-selling series by a wide margin in the publishing program of DC. In addition to Wolfman's original stories while wearing especially Perez's drawings that met the tastes of the mass audience of the time ideal for the success of the Titans. As Tuscher of Perez's pencil drawings mostly Romeo Tanghal stepped on it.

Pérez, who is often considered alongside John Byrne as the most popular and successful American comic book artist of the 1980s, was commissioned on the wave of success of the Teen Titans 1984 with the graphic design of the twelve-part maxi series Crisis on Infinite Earths, be with the DC -Verlag celebrated fifty years of existence. This Maxi series, wrote Pérez, together with Wolfman, was eventually published 1985/1986 and proved to be a great financial and artistic success. As Inker entrusted with the mascara moderate revision of Perez's drawings Jerry Ordway and Dick Giordano served thereby.

From 1987 to 1992 Pérez oversaw the rebooted series about the superheroine Wonder Woman, which he wrote in a personal union and recorded. His reinterpretation of the militant Amazone came across a very positive response from fans and critics, and is still regarded as one of the highlights of the more than sixty years of publication history of the character. Parallel to his work on Wonder Woman Pérez worked temporarily at the New Teen Titans series and Action Comics (# 643-652 ), in the stories about the great superhero, Superman, told. He acted again not merely as a draftsman but also as a co-author of Marv Wolfman and Roger Stern. Due to its long job list Pérez could not often finish this work alone, but had to by artists like Tom Grummett, who completed supplementary pencil drawings or Brett Breeding, Kerry Gammill, and Bob McLeod who provided the mascara moderate revision be assisted.

Pérez's work in the 1990s

After Pérez had a falling out in 1992 with DC over the artistic direction of the Wonder Woman series and in his opinion, inadequate marketing moderate Promo Tung his job at it, and because of his opinion, inadequate assessment of the fifty-year " birthday " of the figure, with DC, left he DC for several years to work for other publishers like Marvel or Malibu Comics. With Marvel, it came at the same time in connection with Perez's work on the miniseries Infinity Gauntlet - the Pérez broke after four of six issues and was then led by Ron Lim to an end - to complications.

For Malibu Comics drew Pérez Break- Thru and Ultra Force while he was working for Tekno Comix on I- bots and for Crossgen in Soul. This was followed by work for DC again - for he works in ink for a third, written by Dan Jurgens and drawn, new version of the Teen Titans title completed (1996-1997), and for Marvel, for which he and written by Peter David series Sachs Violens and Hulk: Future Imperfect designed. There was a multi-year, second, Run on Marvel's superhero classic The Avengers, for the Pérez by Kurt Busiek wrote stories illustrated. This run culminated in 2003 in the cross-publisher crossover JLA / Avengers, which had been planned since the 1980s - and had then drawn for the Pérez over twenty pages before it due to differences between the owners of the two participating superhero groups, DC and Marvel had been stopped and could only be realized with almost twenty years late.

Perez's attempt as an independent artist working in the self- publishing to publish, failed in contrast: The publication of his project Crimson Plague he had to break under heavy debt.

Work in the recent past

More recently, Pérez has worked primarily as an illustrator for various DC projects such as the miniseries Infinite Crisis and the anthology series The Brave and the Bold.

Works

Work for DC

  • Action Comics # 600, 643-652; Annual # 2
  • Adventures of Superman # 457-459 ( plots), # 461 (ink )
  • The Brave and the Bold (vol. 2 ) # 1 -present
  • Crisis on Infinite Earths # 1-12
  • History of the DC Universe # 1-2
  • Infinite Crisis # 1-7 alternate covers and partial interior
  • JLA / Avengers # 1-4
  • Justice League of America # 184-186, 192-197, 200
  • The New Teen Titans (vol. 1) # 1-4, 6-40; Annual # 1-2
  • The New Teen Titans (vol. 2) # 1-5, The New Titans # 50-61
  • Teen Titans (vol. 2 ) ( inker, issues # 1-15)
  • Superman # 423 (ink )
  • Superman: The Wedding Album
  • Wonder Woman vol. 2, # 1-62; Annual # 1-2

Work for Marvel

  • Uncanny X -Men vol. 1, Annual # 3
  • The Avengers vol 1 # 141-162, 167-172, 194-196, 198-202; Annual # 6, 8
  • The Avengers vol 3, # 1-15, 18-25, 27-34; Annual 1998
  • Crimson Plague # 1-2 ( )
  • Fantastic Four vol 1, # 164-167, 170-172, 176-178, 184-188, 191-192
  • Hulk: Future Imperfect # 1-2
  • Infinity Gauntlet # 1-4
  • Sachs and Violens # 1-4
  • Silver Surfer vol 3, # 111 - # 123 (Author)
  • Youngblood Battlezone vol 1, # 2
  • Comic author
  • Cartoonist
  • Americans
  • Born in 1954
  • Man
John Byrne (comics) Bob McLeod (comics)
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