Pérez

Rosie Perez apologises for sounding a little hoarse – it’s partly because of a cold, but mainly because she spent Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, screaming for Amanda Serrano during her historic bout against Katie Taylor. “I shouldn’a went to the fights, but I went to the fights,” she mutters in that unmistakeable Brooklyn accent. But how could she have missed the biggest women’s boxing match in history? “On one hand, it’s gonna go down in the history books as one of the best fights ever, and that’s saying a lot.…

Best known for his well-populated crossover books, George Pérez died Friday at the age of 67, from complications of pancreatic cancer. Pérez’s work defined superhero comics in the 1980s and 1990s, and his impact on the genre still echoes through superhero media today. Over the course of the artist’s prolific comic book career, he did his best to draw every iconic DC and Marvel superhero, preferably all at once in the span of an epic double-page spread. Pérez is survived by his wife of over 40 years, Carol Flynn; his…

Perez began his career with Marvel, working from assistant to actual artist and eventually drawing "The Avengers" and "Fantastic Four" in the 1970s. His most influential work, however, arguably came in the 1980s when Perez brought his style to DC's biggest superheroes by drawing "Justice League of America," and he would go on to make comics history with "Crisis on Infinite Earths," a run that shocked fans by folding multiple universes together, featuring nearly every DC character ever invented — often on…

On Saturday, while many of us were out attending Free Comic Book Day celebrations, news broke that legendary artist George Pérez had died. The 67-year-old artist was diagnosed with Stage 3 Pancreatic Cancer back in late 2021, and had opted to forego what can be a long and painful treatment process, and instead to spend the rest of his days on his own terms. Thankfully those days included basking in the warm glow of love and affection from his many fans and peers. It’s a beautiful thing to get to tell someone how much…