So sad to hear this. A giant in the comics field.

Sharing a little personal George Perez art from my collection.
Interior of the Crisis on Infinite Earths hardcover. Signed by Marv Wolfman, Jerry Ordway, Alex Ross and George, with a little surprise by all. George then upped everyone that did a bust and gave me a full page piece.

Yeah, we knew it was coming, but that doesn't make it any easier seeing the news.
What an amazing artist, and - by all indications - an amazing, lovely human being.

Don't think I have scans of my own book, but here's some images I found online from one of my favorite single comic books and one of the issues that cemented Perez as one of my all-time favorite artists, X-men Annual #3:



And another example from earlier in his career, the Marvel Logan's Run adaptation, which showed he was a friggin' master pretty much right out of the gate:


Thanks for all of the lovely art, Mr. Perez.

A really sad day. He was the master of crowd scenes with super people and I really enjoyed his FF work the most. RIP Mr. Perez.

The last time I saw George Perez in person was at a Pittsburgh Comicon a number of years ago. It was Sunday afternoon, about an hour before closing, and he finished signing for a guy, then stood up on his table and just started handing out free pre-signed merch to the people standing in his line who could answer trivia questions about books he’d worked on. He was laughing and joking with everyone, clearly having as much fun as everyone else was.

It sucks that as we get older, the artists we loved growing up, who were already older than us, are starting to pass one by one. Perez was a true giant in the industry and will be missed by many, his legacy secured by the amazing art he created over his career.

I'm gettin' tired of this. It feels like I've said goodbye to a lot of people, in the last decade, and two giants, here, recently.

I'm not certain what my first Perez comic was; either Avengers or Fantastic Four, though possibly Logan's Run or one of his single-issue jobs. Perez turned up in a lot of places, so I saw a lot of his stuff. I probably saw more of the FF stuff, from the period where they came back from Counter Earth and Galactus ate the Impossible man's world (and got indigestion). I saw a little of the Avengers, when Grim Reaper attacks his brother, Wonder Man, and then Ultron Hank Pym turns up, as Ant-Man, soon followed by Ultron. My first sustained Perez work, though, was New Teen Titans. I fell in love with that as soon as I saw the first issue, with everything happening all over and it was cemented in the second, with the coolest baddie around, The Terminator (technically, Deathstroke the Terminator, before a certain Austrian cyborg killing machine).

Perez' stuff was always so dynamic (well, maybe not Sons of the Tiger, though he tried and improved by the time it gave way to White Tiger) and the detail. I hated the when he drew conventional firearms (didn't seem to have the time to research them and draw them realistically); but, he did energy weapons and blades well and went nuts with technology (with an obvious light switch in the middle of some techno-wall), making him one of the few who could rival Kirby's machines and tech (Bryne could do it, but tended more to panels and vague controls; Perez made his stuff look functional).

I liked the fact that he could do sleek heroes and didn't feel the need to make everyone look like a steroid freak (his Captain America was almost dainty, compared to later artists), and he drew some sexy women, especially if they were a bit kinky. He also liked his women with some curve and his super ladies tended to be of the bombshell variety. Loved the Black Widow piece he did, in Marvel Fanfare, with Ralph Macchio. He wasn't above sexualizing her, a bit, while she kicked butt, as she starts the story defending her place from an attack, while wrapped in a towel (then soaking wet, in her costume). He gave her some Amazonian features. Notice he also got her in ropes, in a later chapter, which was won't to happen, in his books. He definitely made Starfire and Blackfire into a rather twisted family, in NTT. I'm fairly certain he put in some visual references to actual fetish models and producers, in Sachs and Violens, before he would direct superhero female fight fetish videos. Hey, he was never boring (or deeply repressed).

The way he could cram characters into a panel and be recognizable, and still serve the story was awe-inspiring. I also liked the fact he kept a foot in the indie world, with things like Wally Wood's THUNDER Agents and the cover to The Dark, for Joseph Naftali's Continum.

If there was one facet of his work I really loved (aside from his women) it was his ability to draw chain mail and have it look like chain mail. Before him, it was Wally Wood (who swiped some of his technique from Hal Foster); but, Perez went one better. Too many who tried to follow ended up either making it look like cloth or scale mail, which is not the same thing (Captain America is supposed to wear a shirt of chain mail, not scale mail, as later artists started drawing, following Kevin Maguire, on the Adv of Captain America, Sentinel of Liberty).

A favorite piece was his raven story, from the first issue of Wally Wood's THUNDER Agents, from David Singer's Deluxe Comics....



Phoenicia was inspired by his wife, who was a belly dancer.

I wish George could have gone out at a ripe old age, basking in the glow of acclaim and wealth; but, at least he isn't suffering and he had the acclaim and possibly some of the wealth.