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News: Perez Interview From SDCC 2004 |
George Perez: 10 Questions with Mike Solof
SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2004 (22-25 Jul 2004)
Superstars, Scoop, Friday, July 14, 2006Each year, Scoop photographer and internet DJ Mike Solof travels to a number of comic book conventions, including Comic-Con International: San Diego, to take pictures of the creators, publishers, retailers, fans, exhibitors, panelists and even the architecture at the show. In 2004, Solof started interviewing some of his subjects.
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Scoop: What's your weirdest inspiration for a story?
GP: I was doing Crimson Plague and I had a certain idea of the power, like Aliens deadly blood and the model I was working with asked me what happens when she menstruates and the entire series took on a different tone from that point on.Scoop: If you could change one word, one line, one moment, one story or one piece of artwork that you've done, what would that be?
GP: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the comic adaptation of the movie. I would have said no! Wipe that off the face of the earth.[ Read more George Perez: 10 Questions with Mike Solof ]
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News: One Fan's Opinion Issue #47 |
One Fan's Opinion Issue #47
Friday July 28, 2006
written by Erik Larsen(excerpt)
So, you say, you want big names on the off genre books, but that's not entirely the case either. When George Perez steps away from superheroes to do something else -- as he has several times -- most readers ignore it. When Jim Lee strayed from superheroes to do "Divine Right," most readers could not care less. Frank Miller's "300" was not exactly a huge success when it came out.
Determining what it is that you want is no easy task.
And, again, you can't please everybody.
[ Read more One Fan's Opinion Issue #47 ]
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News: Crimson Plague Advertisement |
The art of DiNA: Simmons in this ad (from Empire #1) for Gorilla's Crimson Plague #1 is notable in that, in addition to this ad, the full illustration only saw print (in a substantially reduced size) in Perez Obscura (see the cover). A cropped version of this art was used in another ad for #1, seen in Shockrockets #2 and Previews Vol.X #4 (April 2000). Also, a silhouette of this illustration was used on the inside front covers of Crimson Plague #1 & #2 from Gorilla.
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CRIMSON PLAGUE #1
An Image Comic
(S/A) George Pérez (C) Tom Smith/ Color ArtsSomething horrible has happened on MannaWorks 3. In one night the entire population of the prison mining colony on one of Jupiter's moons has been destroyed, all their bodies putrified into masses of red mush-- all dead except for a mysterious young woman with a ribbon of crimson in her long black hair. The same young woman who, five years later, is at the center of a series of similar bloody deaths on the Mars colony of MannaWorks 2.
You see, DiNA: Simmons is no ordinary woman. Her blood is lethal to the touch. She bleeds, you die-- horribly and instantly, as a gang of would-be attackers learn all too well on the Martian settlement. And as dangerous as DiNA: is when attacked, that is not the most frightening part of her powers. No, it is during certain biological cycles that DiNA: Simmons is at her most deadly-- when the destructive toxins in her blood become an airborne virus-- capable of destroying an entire planet in a night-- a crimson plague for which there is no known cure-- and no escape. A crimson plague that is one step closer to reaching Earth. This special 64 page Gorilla Comics edition re-presents the original 32- page Event Comics premier issue with 16 brand new story pages, pin-ups, a photo gallery featuring the real-life models who comprise the cast, and more! Plus: An all-new exclusive prologue story to this month's other Gorilla launch: SECTION ZERO by Karl Kesel and Tom Grummett!
FC, 64pg $2.95
