American comic book artist/writer, born in 1954 in the South Bronx. He claims that he's never had any formal art training--as a child he practiced drawing comic book characters on his family's dirty clothes hamper, and in high school, the only art class let students draw as much as they wanted but didn't actually teach anything.

After high school, Perez worked as a bank teller, but attended numerous comic book conventions to show off his portfolio. He eventually got work doing fill-in jobs on a number of different Marvel comics, including "Deathlok" and "Man-Wolf"--the writers of those books, in fact, liked his work enough to get him promoted to the regular penciller on both series. Perez' later work on Marvel books like "The Fantastic Four", "The Avengers", and "The Inhumans" helped establish him as a primo artist for team books and also helped him crossover to DC Comics.

At DC, he drew the Justice League and co-created (with writer Marv Wolfman) the colossally-successful "New Teen Titans", which updated the old Teen Titans series of the 1960s with a splash of sex and teen angst (which had already helped turn the X-Men into Marvel's biggest-selling book of the 1980s). Perez stuck with the Titans for four years--after that, Perez and Wolfman took on an even more important project: the apocalyptic "Crisis on Infinite Earths", which allowed Perez to draw almost every major character in the DC Universe and, again, played to his ability to jam a colossal amount of detail (and a colossal number of characters) into each panel.

After "Crisis", Perez worked on the "Wonder Woman" relaunch for over five years, helping reinvent the character for the Post-Crisis world (less taking minutes of JLA meetings, more ass-kicking, way better hair). In addition to artwork, Perez also took over plotting and scripting chores on the series.

Perez next moved back to Marvel to work on "The Infinity Gauntlet" and the "Future Imperfect" series for the Hulk, then started working on a number of series for independent and smaller-company comics, including "Sachs and Violens", "UltraForce", "I-Bots". He also inked several comics, including an adaptation of "Jurassic Park" with comics legend Gil Kane and a new version of the Titans with Dan Jurgens.

In the late '90s, Perez relaunched "The Avengers" with writer Kurt Busiek (the early issues featured every character who had ever been a member of the Avengers, once again allowing Perez the opportunity to draw crazy bunches of people). He drew the epic-length "JLA/Avengers" series in 2004. He also wrote and drew a creator-owned series called "Crimson Plague" in which the entire cast was made up of real people--you could send in your name and a photo, and Perez would add you into the comic. Of course, since the main character of "Crimson Plague" had lethally poisonous blood and released a supervirus every time she had her period, there was a good chance that your character was going to die horribly.

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