News Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:26:40 CST Vu

George Pérez and Mike Middleton (Jun 2002), at the THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL SCI-FI & FANTASY CREATORS CONVENTION 2002

Me and George Perez
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
posted by Mike Middleton @ 4:14 PM

One of my all time favorite comic books growing up was The New Teen Titans. I was always amazed at the art on that book. The artist responsible for all that goodness was the great George Perez. I was thrilled to meet him at one of the first conventions I ever went to back in 1992. I've been fortunate enough to see him a few more times through the years. He's incredibly nice and gracious and was very friendly to me and my buddies. When I saw him in New York in 2002, he did an awesome sketch of Sgt. Rock for me. He was happy to do it because he didn't get very many requests for Sgt. Rock. It was hard to choose the character for him to do because he's drawn practically every character DC and Marvel has had through the years and did them very well. Needless to say I was very pleased with the final results!