{"id":98741,"date":"2022-05-08T12:51:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T07:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/george-perez-wonder-woman-comic-book-artist-dies-at-67\/"},"modified":"2022-05-08T12:51:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T07:21:03","slug":"george-perez-wonder-woman-comic-book-artist-dies-at-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/george-perez-wonder-woman-comic-book-artist-dies-at-67\/","title":{"rendered":"George Perez, Wonder Woman Comic Book Artist, Dies at 67"},"content":{"rendered":"
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George Perez, a legendary comic book artist who famously wrote and penciled for \u201cWonder Woman\u201d and \u201cCrisis on Infinite Earths\u201d comics, has died. He was 67. <\/p>\n

A statement posted to his personal Facebook page<\/a> announced his death, writing that he died Friday with \u201cfamily by his side.\u201d Perez had previously been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all very much grieving but, at the same time, we are so incredibly grateful for the joy he brought to our lives. To know George was to love him; and he loved back. Fiercely and with his whole heart. The world is a lot less vibrant today without him in it,\u201d the statement read. \u201cHe loved all of you. He loved hearing your posts and seeing the drawings you sent and the tributes you made. He was deeply proud to have brought so much joy to so many.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Kenneth<\/p><\/div>\n

Known for his gift with illustrating complex crowds and drawing detailed and realistic renderings within each frame, Perez had worked as a comic book artist since the 1970s and had worked between DC Comics, Marvel Comics, BOOM! Studios and Image Comics as one of the industry\u2019s first Latino superstars. Perez made his professional debut in 1974 when he worked as a penciler on Marvel\u2019s \u201cAstonishing Tales.\u201d <\/p>\n

But he had his breakout working on the flagship \u201cThe Avengers,\u201d and he would later get the chance to create several other iconic characters in his time with Marvel, including creating with Bill Mantlo the first Puerto Rican superhero White Tiger, as well as the villain The Taskmaster.<\/p>\n

Perez later left Marvel for rival DC Comics and took over the launch of \u201cThe New Teen Titans\u201d along with co-creator Marv Wolfman, a comic series that was an answer to Marvel\u2019s growing \u201cX-Men\u201d franchise. He also worked on a limited series called \u201cCrisis on Infinite Earths\u201d that purportedly featured every DC character that the company owned up to that point, and he was integral in a reboot of \u201cWonder Woman\u201d in the late \u201980s, tying the character more closely to a lineage with the Greek Gods.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Mike<\/p><\/div>\n

Four times in his career Perez won the Eagle Award, which is voted on by UK comic fans, as well as the Jack Kirby Award, the Inkpot Award and just this year was awarded a special recognition award by the Inkwell Awards. <\/p>\n

Perez is survived by his wife of \u201c490 months\u201d Carol. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Perez, a legendary comic book artist who famously wrote and penciled for \u201cWonder Woman\u201d and \u201cCrisis on Infinite Earths\u201d comics, has died. He was 67. A statement posted to his personal Facebook page announced his death, writing that he died Friday with \u201cfamily by his side.\u201d Perez had previously been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":98742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1651994464_George-Perez-Wonder-Woman-Comic-Book-Artist-Dies-at-67.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}