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THOR (1977), art by George Pérez, published in ACCENT ON THE FIRST 'E', from Michael Lovitz

August 07, 2004 01:25 am | Creation Convention 1977

From Creation Entertainment

CREATION COMIC BOOK & POP CULTURE - Pasadena, CA (1977)

33 YEARS OF CREATION Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:55:03 PM GEORGE PEREZ has drawn just about every major Marvel and DC character at some point in his amazing career- a good friend and great talent. (Vu: As shown signing autographs for ACCENT ON THE FIRST 'E' (1977).)

THE LEGEND OF KAZO-NAL #1

This conceptual piece for a planned Sword & Sorcery tale called "The Legend of Kazo-Nal" appeared in the 1977 Bio/Artbook PEREZ: ACCENT ON THE FIRST 'E'

Andy Mangels: So what happened then? You were going to do a DEATH SQUAD series with Bob Layton and you started on a graphic novel called DEATH TRAIN."
George Pérez: "TERROR TRAIN. Actually TERROR TRAIN was a short story I wrote when I was in high school. I can no longer find the original manuscript. A very pre-splatter movie type of splatter story. It was done very much in that type of style way before any splatter movies ever showed; I didn't know about Herschel or Lewis at the time…

…As for DEATH SQUAD, I was already a pro at that point and I was doing an origins story of the DEATH SQUAD with Bob Layton for Omnibus Publishing, which had already produced the PEREZ ACCENT ON THE FIRST E book. But Omnibus never went anywhere; the PEREZ book itself, due to bad management, bad marketing, bad timing, didn't go anywhere - I assume only about 600 ever went out to any audience; it's a very rare book now. So DEATH SQUAD totally fell apart.

George Pérez and Nick Rivera Jr, at the NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL SCI-FI & FANTASY CREATORS CONVENTION (30 June 2002)

George Pérez honestly has make a strong impact in my life. He is the reason I draw and paint today.

In 1984 my father gave me a copy of ''Accent on the First E'' by George Perez, I was 4 years old... and since then all I do is draw aside from my real job. I traced every page of that book cover to cover, every single day when I was 5,6 years old.

As I got older I simply refused to trace knowing that George didn't trace the drawings... so I started to draw them by eye, literally mastering every detail of each page.

If you've seen this book before you'll know that it's an awesome black and white showcase book if Pérez's early art. From then on.... I would draw everything in sight.... tables, cars, faces....... everything. Trying every day to be a master at detail like George.

Today I draw and paint as a side job and it was all because of ''Accent on the First E''....that book rocked my life!

I still have it till this day along with literally thousands of other George Pérez comics and posters......and I just wanted to express my love and respect for the man's talent and what he has inspired me to do.

Well I'm happy to tell you that I met him at the New York Sci-fi and Fantasy Art Show at Madison Square Garden on the 30th of June.

Hahahaha.... like a little punk I almost cried. LOLOL picture a 22 year old at a show crying over a comic book artist. But I held it in. I let out one tear when I got home.

The show was great. I little small but George Pérez was all I cares about. Wow... all types of people were there... Adam West, Billy Dee Williams... Virgil from wrestling... Stacey Walker(((hot fantasy art Model))) and a whole lot of other top name comic book people. But you know..... I honestly didn't give a !@#$% about those people. Mr. Pérez was the only one I cared about. He took a picture with me and autographed 3 books. The man was simply amazing. I wanted to stay with him there till the show was done....but I didn't want him to think I was a nut. LOL

So I walked around the place to loosen up and found myself walking in circles to George's table over and over and over again. LOLOLOL.... what a memory. All the other artist..... I didn't even say hello to them or even ask for an autograph. It's like those people were all shadows.

I was that shocked.

Well it was a pleasure meeting George Pérez and I have the memories to enjoy forever. Or until I hopefully meet him again.

FANTASTIC FOUR (1977), published in ACCENT ON THE FIRST E, from Christos	DR DOOM, published in ACCENT ON THE FIRST E, from Christos	LOGAN'S RUN, published in ACCENT ON THE FIRST E, from Christos	X-MEN, published in ACCENT ON THE FIRST E, from Christos	JOHN CARTER, WARLORD OF MARS (1977), art by George Perez/Joe Sinnott, published in ACCENT ON THE FIRST E and F.O.O.M. #20
BATMAN (1977), published in ACCENT ON THE FIRST E