George Pérez, who has died aged 67 after suffering from pancreatic cancer, was a master of all aspects of comic book creation, and won fans for his artistic talents – both pencilling and inking – and as a writer of leading characters in the universes of Marvel and DC Comics.
In the 1980s Pérez helped revive the fortunes of Wonder Woman for DC Comics. He had grown interested in mythology while co-plotting and drawing the Teen Titans series, in which he had introduced Donna Troy, the younger sister of Wonder Woman. Diana, the princess of Themyscira, was re-established as the daughter of immortal Amazons on hidden Paradise Island, and Pérez went on to shape the series as penciller and then as writer for five years, establishing the foundations for the modern character seen in comics and on cinema screens. And when Teen Titans became an animated show in 2003, it was the Pérez era it drew upon.
