As mentioned earlier by Ilke Hincher, SKETCH MAGAZINE #10 is released today (Halloween), a larger scan of the cover is available at Pérez Yahoo Club. The original release date was supposed to have been in August/September (originally ordered through the June issue of PREVIEWS). When I was reading the interview, I noticed that the artwork are TINY - I later read that they did this only to compensate for the massive nineteen-page interview Andy Mangels conducted.

A statement at the beginning of the magazine read:

Once we received the interview and realized just how massive the detailed the interview was. We had to make a decession [sic] to either cut the interview in two running the first part in issue #10 and the second part in issue #11 (which we don't believe is fair to make you purchase two issues.), or, run part of it here and part of it on the website. We realized that not everyone has internet access.
The only other option was to run the whole interview here and run smaller artwork. With this option we oped [sic] to offer the artwork at a larger size on our website www.bluelinepro.com. Click on the George Pérez name then click on eack [sic] image and enjoy. We apologize for this inconvence [sic] but we feel that the information in the interview is very important.

That statement was probably done at the very last minute with no proofing, I have deliberately left all the misspellings for evidence. Also note that the colorist was miscredited as Bob Smith (who is in fact an inker) instead of Tom Smith on the inside cover. Despite the sloppy mistakes (although I have not read the entire magazine, I am assuming the other content are without errors) I am still glad they have finally released the magazine. Sometime books are listed (and ordered by me!) but are never printed.

The interview itself is good and covers pretty much everything - from his early days to what lies ahead. A quote from George reads: "I think, first and foremost, I love drawing comics. It's what I will do to my dying day. My goal is to have an unfinished page in my drawing board when I die." So no retirement anytime soon, which is good news!

Since you are a Pérez fan, I am sure you have this magazine in your hands already. If you don't have it, then here is an excerpt from the interview:

Sketch: Have you experimented at all using computers? [in regards to inking]
Perez: Not as an artist. I've only used computers if I've scanned my pictures, as I'm doing with JLA/Avengers, and making corrections and erasures. If a line scanned in with smudges I would clean it up. If a stray pencil line that I didn't manage to erase all the way reproduced, I will take care of that. If I need a special effect - and this again only applies to an inked page - where I want something to repeat, well then I can do cut-and-paste, because that's an effect that can only be done through something, either a copy machine or a computer that I could never copy myself line for line. I seldom do that, but there have been occasions where I want a sign in the background to be in another scene. Well the sign doesn't change, so I can actually cut-and-paste. But for the most part I leave the computer to the colors artist and the letters. When it comes to basic drawing, I could never surrender the feeling and sensuality of putting a pen to paper. I don't think I could ever replace that joy with a computer.

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