More than ever, we see the urgent need for accessible introductory resources on comics for librarians, teachers, and K-12 and college students. Books in the Biographix series will prove essential for those studying, teaching, and curating comics—as well as comics fans and general readers. Through a biographical lens, books in this series will be short and accessibly priced and bring reader-friendly scholarly insight to comics creators and their works, summarizing, explaining, contextualizing, assessing, and providing critical insight to key figures in comics. UPM is pleased to announce the release of the latest volume in the Biographix Series!
Born in the South Bronx to Puerto Rican parents, artist and writer George Pérez (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, Pérez 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, Pérez relaunched DC’s Wonder Woman, a run that later inspired much of the 2017 film. Though Pérez’s style is highly recognizable, his contributions to comic art and history have not been fully acknowledged. In George Pérez, author Patrick L. Hamilton addresses this neglect, first, by discussing Pérez’s artistic style within the context of Bronze Age superhero art, and second, by analyzing Pérez’s work for its representations of race, disability, and gender.
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