George P駻ez (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496851246)

Born in the South Bronx to Puerto Rican parents, artist and writer George P駻ez (1954-2022) cut his teeth in the 1970s as an artist at Marvel who worked on lesser titles like The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu and Creatures on the Loose, and then mainstays like Fantastic Four and The Avengers. In the 1980s, P駻ez jumped ship to DC where he helped turn The New Teen Titans into a top-selling title and cocreated Crisis on Infinite Earths, which marked the publisher's fiftieth anniversary and consolidated its sprawling universe. As writer and artist, P駻ez relaunched DC's Wonder Woman, a run that later inspired much of the 2017 film.

Though P駻ez's style is highly recognizable, his contributions to comic art and history have not been fully acknowledged. In George P駻ez, author Patrick L. Hamilton addresses this neglect, first, by discussing P駻ez's artistic style within the context of Bronze Age superhero art, and second, by analyzing P駻ez's work for its representations of race, disability, and gender. Though he struggled with deadlines and health issues in the 1990s, P駻ez would reintroduce himself and his work to a new generation of comics fans with a return to Marvel's The Avengers, as well as attempts at various creator-owned comics, the last of these being Sirens from Boom! Studios in 2014. Throughout his career, P駻ez established a dynamic and minutely detailed style of comic art that was both unique and influential.

Author: Patrick L. Hamilton
ISBN-10: 1496851242
ISBN-13: 9781496851246
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2024
Pages: 134
Format: Paperback