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News: Bookshelf Q&A: George Pérez
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BOOKSHELF Q & A: GEORGE PEREZ
published in WIZARD #165 (Jul 2005)
transcribed by Vu
www.wizarduniverse.com
If you can name it, chances are George Perez has drawn it, from Marvel's first family to DC's teen team supreme. Now collected for the first time, two of Perez's seminal works make it to trade in June with FANTASTIC FOUR VISIONAIRES: GEORGE PEREZ vol 1 (collecting his 1970s work on the book) and NEW TEEN TITANS: WHO IS DONNA TROY? (featuring Perez and a variety of other artists.) Here's what Perez had to say about dominating the bookshelves…
NEW TEEN TITANS: WHO IS DONNA TROY? (Jun 2005)
WIZARD: What's your favorite Fantastic Four tale that you drew?
PEREZ: The issue with the Impossible Man [#176]. The fun part was drawing myself and [writer] Roy Thomas - boy, did I look good in those days! - and having my comic book self talking to Jack Kirby whom I had never met and wouldn't meet for the first time until 1985.What was best about working on FF?
It was a nice learning experience for me. I got to add another notch in my gun as far as establishing myself as an artist who really likes doing group books. I was doing Avengers and Inhumans around the same time.A standout New Teen Titans tale you penciled - #38, "Who is Donna Troy?" -will be included in the new collection. So who is Donna Troy to you?
I think Donna Troy will always be a feminine ideal who's basically the girl next door that everyone just has to fall in love with. She was rather perfect in her own way - strong, intelligent, giving, loving and of course, gorgeous.But who wins in a fight between Donna Troy and the Thing?
In the long run, it would probably be Donna because Ben would be a little reluctant to use all his strength at first on a female character, despite his experience with Thundra and everyone else. That one brief hesitation is all she needs.What will your next big project be after the Teen Titans: Games graphic novel?
Nothing specific at this point because Games won't be finished until the end of the year. A lot of people have been coming up with a lot of proposals. I'm very flattered that at my age, I'm still being considered the pretty girl at the prom. [Chuckles] it's very humbling and I'm gratified.
