George Pérez (born June 9, 1954) is a Puerto Rican-American writer and illustrator of comic books, known for his work on various titles, including Avengers, Teen Titans and Wonder Woman.
Pérez' family moved from Caguas, Puerto Rico in the 1940s and settled in the Bronx, where there was and continues to be a large Puerto Rican community. His parents became factory workers. Pérez started drawing at the age of five. Eventually, his family moved to F...
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George Pérez (born June 9, 1954) is a Puerto Rican-American writer and illustrator of comic books, known for his work on various titles, including Avengers, Teen Titans and Wonder Woman.
Pérez' family moved from Caguas, Puerto Rico in the 1940s and settled in the Bronx, where there was and continues to be a large Puerto Rican community. His parents became factory workers. Pérez started drawing at the age of five. Eventually, his family moved to Flushing, Queens, New York where George often visited a comic book store called Mike's Comic Hut. He became fascinated with comic books and their illustrations.
Pérez' first involvement with the professional comics industry was as artist Rich Buckler's assistant in 1973. Within a year, Pérez had embarked on his own professional career, which included a run on "Sons of the Tiger", a serialised action-adventure strip published in Marvel's long-running Deadly Hands of Kung Fu magazine and authored by prolific comics writer Bill Mantlo. He and...
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