George Perez

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Some very sad news from George Perez today.

Comic book legend George Perez has announced through his FB page that he has Stage 3 pancreatic cancer and has six months to live.

You cannot begin to describe the impact this man had as an artist for DC and Marvel and who by all accounts is an incredibly nice guy too. pic.twitter.com/fbMlCHcFut

— Bitter Script Reader (@BittrScrptReadr) December 7, 2021

The word Legend is tossed around pretty liberally but I think it’s fair to say that he is a true comics legend. This is a great shame to hear.

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Bollocks.  That is terrible news.

The statement in full:

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Rocket

Fucking hell.

The man is a comic book god.

I wish him peace and painlessness.

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Rocket, Vikram, Ben

Just read it over twitter, in shock really. So sad.

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Rocket, Vikram, Ben

Even in such distressing circumstances he’s a classy guy. What an absolute legend.

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garjones, Rocket, Martin Smith, Dave, Todd, Sean Robinson, Al-x, Vikram, Ben

Yeah, that is quite the post by Perez.

Yeah. That’s horrible news. I always enjoyed his work, although I’m probably a Jonny Come Lately as far as he’s concerned. Only really became aware of him on the Heroes Return Avengers with Busiek and then the phenomenal JLA/ Avengers shortly thereafter. I wish him and his family the best over the next few months. I admire his positivity and determination to go out smiling.

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Rocket, Todd, Ben

As a kid reading the Avengers in the 1970s, I always loved the way he drew Beast.

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Rocket, Martin Smith, Sean Robinson

This was a gut punch for me. New Teen Titans was part of my childhood:

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Rocket, Sean Robinson, Todd

The cover to JLA-Avengers #3 will probably never be equalled.

It has over 100 characters and it works brilliantly.  Nothing is cluttered, it is a masterpiece  of design, of placing and imagination.

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Vikram, Dave, Todd

Such a massive part of my comic reading with his Justice Leagues being some of my earliest comics.  Absolute class act.

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garjones

Sad news.

Ben wrote:

The cover to JLA-Avengers #3 will probably never be equalled.

It’s also the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Perez. An amazing piece of work.

 

It was sad enough just hearing this news earlier today; but after reading his full post, there are tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat. What a great artist, and what a greater loss to the comics community.

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Rocket, Vikram, Dave, Todd, Ben

Really sad news.

[Sean Robinson]

Very sad. Great artist and human being.

I remember his Justice Leagues fondly, and New Teen Titans, Crisis, the list goes on.

Weird, but I was just thinking of JLA/Avengers the other day. I hope they reprint the HC soon.

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Vikram

Comics Pros and Fans Celebrate George Pérez’s Life and Legacy

https://www.cbr.com/george-perez-comics-pros-fans-celebrate-life-legacy/

this is what I remember most about George Perez. He is a master of the group shot

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njerry, Sean Robinson, Ben, Todd

Yep, that’s the one – JLA-Avengers#3

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Rocket

but the amazing thing is he did so many of them. I heard that he enjoyed doing them and asked to do those huge groups shots.

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Todd, Ben

Then there is the ought to be immortal panel of:

“Ultron, we would have words with thee.”

 

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Rocket, JRCarter

That must have been a hard choice to make. I hope he’s able to spend his remaining time in relative comfort and with dignity.

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Dave, Ben

My mom made the same choice last year. She was able to be at home in her own bed. The company handling her Hospice provided pain meds and nurses to come in and help. It was very dignified and she was in her own apartment with her children nearby.

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George Pérez, You Are Why I Love Comics

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Rocket, Ben, Todd

Rocket wrote:

My mom made the same choice last year. She was able to be at home in her own bed. The company handling her Hospice provided pain meds and nurses to come in and help. It was very dignified and she was in her own apartment with her children nearby.

It’s an interesting aspect Mike shared with me a while back. Qualified doctors are 3 times as likely to accept palliative care over treatment in cases like this than the general public. NICE which is the group that authorises medicines in the UK public health system has faced criticism for not signing off cancer treatments but in an example they raised one cost several hundred thousand dollars with an average result of adding 90 days to a life and a not very comfortable 90 days with pain and side effects.

It’s hard to admit we don’t always have a solution, that some things are beyond ‘willpower’ and current science.

Perez blew me away with that FB post, such a selfless response to his situation.

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https://www.change.org/p/joe-biden-award-george-perez-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom-in-2022?recruiter=49799119

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DavidM

Oh. I thought it said “awarded”, which would have been a cool news story.

Instead, it’s a random internet petition with less than 500 signatures in a week.

 

Yup, nothing story again. Although it at least has more chance of success than the petition for a knighthood for Alan Moore who would have turned it down if offered anyway.

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Todd

*sigh*

https://www.cbr.com/george-perez-obit/

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Al-x, Todd

Expected, but still not fun.

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JRCarter

JRCarter wrote:

*sigh*

https://www.cbr.com/george-perez-obit/

And on Free Comic Book Day to boot.

RIP

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Rocket, Al-x, JRCarter

Yep.  Just because you knew it was going to happen doesn’t make it easier.

Legendary artist, whose ability to cram figures onto a single page without any loss of clarity is unlikely to be equalled.

Then there’s his exit…. such sad news.

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Rocket, Todd

RIP, George was one of the artists whose drawings are tied with my childhood/teen reading.

Even though we knew it was coming, this is still tragic.

Shit.

Time to re-read The Judas Contract and many, many other great stories from multiple decades.

RIP

I just signed up to DC Infinite. I never read more than little bit here and there of the Perez and Wolfman Teen Titans run (I mostly got into Perez with his Wonder Woman run where I read it all). Maybe a good time to read it now.

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[Daniel R]

Sad news.

 

I’ll never forget meeting the guy, some ten years ago now. Lovely guy- I remember I managed to make his eyes roll – I might have been gushing about his COIE work and mentioned how his rendition of Supergirl is the one I always think of when I picture the character. That earned me a well-deserved “oh brother” look. He was still nice enough to draw and sign a Supergirl character for me and let me take some pictures.  Might have to go fish that out and look at it now.

 

D

 

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I met George in 2012 at C2e2. Jim invited me to Chicago and Vic(from the SFL days) got us passes to help him at his booth. We got in early and I made a beeline for George’s booth. He was so nice and did a sketch of Donna Troy for me on the inside cover of Legion of 3 worlds TPB. I’ll never forget it.

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Vikram, DavidM, Sean Robinson, Todd

George Perez based the New Teen Titans on:

Robin / Burt Ward
Wonder Girl / Marie Osmond
Cyborg / Jim Brown
Starfire / Wendy Pini (as Red Sonja)
Raven / Persis Khambatta
Changeling / Mickey Rooney
Kid Flash / Ron Howard
Jericho / David Morse
HIVE Mistress / Bernadette Peters pic.twitter.com/k5z14mgxI9

— TheGeorgePerez.com (@georgepereznet) May 18, 2022

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Todd

George Perez from the Bronx!

There is a YouTube video of him writing his autograph on a Sue Storm cosplayer at a convention.

RIP

Many of you have been asking for a high resolution recording of George's memorial and the footage is now edited and ready to share.

Thank you to MegaCon Orlando for hosting and providing guidance to create an event to honor George.https://t.co/7wAvsYW2EL pic.twitter.com/NBaRVJhN2b

— TheGeorgePerez.com (@georgepereznet) June 12, 2022

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Ben, Todd

DC celebrates the late, great artist George Pérez with poster portfolio this November – Newsarama

The oversized greatness of the legendary George Pérez gets an oversized poster collection

In November, DC will release an oversized special celebrating the life of legendary artist George Pérez, who died in May at age 67. DC Poster Portfolio: George Pérez will feature 42 pages of covers, including art from The New Teen Titans, Wonder Woman, Crisis on Infinite Earths, and more.

Per the solicit text, this poster collection presents “a fraction of the work by this beloved illustrator whose art has touched the hearts of comics fans around the world for generations.”

Pérez got his start in comics in the early ’70s at Marvel Comics, where he penciled back-up stories in titles like Astonishing Tales and Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu. He co-created Puerto Rican superhero White Tiger with writer Bill Mantlo, and went on to become the regular Avengers artist where he co-created Taskmaster.

Following runs on major Marvel titles Fantastic Four and Inhumans, Pérez moved to DC, where he rose to prominence as the lead artist on Crisis on Infinite Earths. He would continue to work for both of the Big Two for the next several decades.

Pérez announced a terminal cancer diagnosis in December 2021 and his May 6 death was announced on his Facebook page(opens in new tab). The post said he passed away “peacefully at home with his wife [Carol] of 490 months and family by his side. He was not in pain and knew he was very, very loved.”

DC Poster Portfolio: George Pérez will be available November 1.

A rather cute adult thing done among consenting adults at a convention:

RIP…