30 Days of Scans: Favorite artist

[perletwo]

George Perez. Oh yeah.

As proof, I offer 6 pages from issue 1 of the New Teen Titans baxter-paper run, penciled and inked by the man himself. Warning to all y'all haters, these scans are Raven-centric, and there's a bigass double-page spread.



During a training session, Jericho has possessed Raven, freaking both of them out. There is fallout. How do you solve a problem like Our Raven?





Joey decides to zap into Raven's body while she's sleeping.









I love the linework, and the contrasts.

Comments

[curlyjo1]

I am a huge Perez fan as well, and as awesome as his Titans work is, my favorites are his work on Wonder Woman and JLA/Avengers. (Although, Avengers was rather good, too.) The ,a href="http://comiccoverage.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/jla_avengers3_1.jpg">cover alone to JLA/Avengers is awe inspiring.

[perletwo]

Oh yes, motto to all the above. For me it was either this or Crisis on Infinite Earths, but this one I already had on my hard drive, so.

I tried to resist the Perez masses-o'-people works - Legion of 3 Worlds has some excellent examples as well - in favor of detail work. I'm also fond of his panel layouts, especially in some of his early Marvel work like on the Avengers. Remarkable that even at that early stage, no matter how hacky the ink job, I could pick out a Perez page in nothing flat.

[icon_uk]

I loved that for his first arc in Avengers he basically designed stunningly fantastic medaevil looks for almost every single Avenger EVER! Knowing full well that the story would be done and dusted in three issues.