#Ramón K. Pérez

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Calavera, P.I. #1 by Marco Finnegan. Cover by Finnegan. Variant covers by (2) Ramón K. Pérez, (3) Esteban Sánchez and (4) J. Gonzo. Out in November.

"SOMETIMES IT TAKES A DEAD MAN TO CRACK THE CASE! From the desk of rising star Marco Finnegan (Morning Star, Night People), walk the shadow-shrouded alleys of Hollywoodland to solve the mystery of Calavera—a newly resurrected private investigator whose first case is about to straddle the blood-soaked boundaries between the living and the dead... In 1925, Juan Calavera died a hero. After a career spent outside the law defending the Chicano barrios where the police refused to operate, he earned a reputation for fearlessness... and a gunshot in the stomach. Now, five years later, on Dia de los Muertos, his restless spirit has been summoned from the grave to help a desperate former colleague unravel a kidnapping all too close to home. With only days to solve the case before he is called back to the underworld, can Calavera reveal the identity of the masked human trafficker known as La Fantasma before tragedy strikes again... and solve the mystery of his own murder in the process?"

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Image Comics Preview: The Singularity

Read a preview of The Singularity from Image Comics, written by Bear McCreary and Mat Groom, an original graphic novel.

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Image Comics Preview: The Singularity

Read a preview of The Singularity from Image Comics, written by Bear McCreary and Mat Groom, an original graphic novel.

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I spent a little over 40 hours on this list so enjoy. This is part one of Beneath the Dark Crystal. Part 6/8 for total posts. Remember the cover artists name is above the comic. So name, comic.

Key:

The Dark Crystal - TDC

Beneath the Dark Crystal - BTDC

Issue - #

Volume - V.

BTDC V. 1 (#1-4)

BTDC #1

Ben Dewey

David Peterson

Ramón K. Pérez

Dave McKean

Ben Dewey

Chris Samnee & Matt Wilson

Jay Fosgitt

BTDC #2

Ben Dewey

David Peterson

Lee Garbett

BTDC #3

Ben Dewey

David Peterson

Lee Garbett

BTDC #4

Ben Dewey

David Peterson

Michael Allred

BTDC V.2 (#5-8)

BTDC #5

Ben Dewey

David Peterson

Ramón K. Pérez

BTDC #6

Ben Dewey

David Peterson

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2013's Farscape mini-comic cover by comic book artist Ramón K. Pérez (done for the 15th anniversary Farscape blu-ray box set).

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Jane

by Aline Brosh McKenna and Ramón K. Pérez

Boom/Archaia

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Calavera, P.I. #1 (Oni Press, November 2024) variant cover by Ramón K. Pérez

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Top Ten Favorite Graphic Novels of 2022:

I only read 59 graphic novels this year a steep decrease in titles. Normally I’ve been reliant on my library to provide me with books, but they haven’t been buying very many these days forcing to become more reliant on publishing house schedules and other methods of discovering new titles.  

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness Kristen Radtke (2021)

My very favorite graphic novel was the second book I read way back in January of this year.  Kristen Radtke wrote a dissertation on loneliness that provides facts and statistics about how prevalent loneliness is in America.  Who knew loneliness can kill you?  The most shocking thing Radtke does is talk about her bout with loneliness, something that most people would be hesitant to share.  This is an amazing book and the fact it is a graphic novel means far too many people will not read it when it is as qualified to be read as any nonfiction tome that doesn’t include cartoons to make its point.  

The remaining books in my Top Ten:

Sculptor Scott McCloud (2015)

David Smith has made a deal with another chess playing version of Death who happens to be his Uncle Harry.  In order to be remembered solely for his artwork, he has agreed to die in 200 days from the day the deal is struck. We all know how Faustian bargains work out and this one is no different.  A wonderful book about the importance of art and the power that art plays in our lives.

Romeo and Juliet Matt Wiegle (2008)

Macbeth Ken Hoshine (2008)

Hamlet Neil Babra (2008)

Of course I have a trio of books I’m counting as one.  All three of these graphic novels come from No Fear Shakespeare.  Readers of this tumblr know well my foibles with Shakespeare.  I’m here to say if No Fear Shakespeare published graphic novels of all 38 of his plays I would snap them all up and ditch my copy of The Complete Pelican Shakespeare in a heartbeat.  I’m a visual guy and these graphic novels convey Shakespeare’s plays as well as Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood (a samurai take on Macbeth).  

 Jane Aline Brosh McKenna and Ramón K Pérez (2017)

If No Fear Shakespeare can’t ignite interest in the plays of Shakespeare, let’s hope that Jane, a modern update on Charlotte Brontë’s great novel Jane Eyre, gets new readers to investigate classic literature.  This new update changes nothing about the story: Jane comes to the big city (NYC, so less) to tend to a child for a mysterious man with a foul temper who has something lurking in his upstairs.  Great artwork (Peréz), great writing (McKenna) and a powerful story. What would Brontë think about her story still being told in a new medium (compared to classic literature) 175 years later?

Ducks: Two Years In The Oil Sands Kate Beaton (2022)

Kate Beaton tells a powerful true story about what happened to her when she decides to go to work simply for the money to pay off her student loans after graduation before she moves on to her chosen field.  She opts for the high paying work that takes place in Canada’s oil sands in Alberta, a remote world inhabited primarily by men much older and stronger than Kate.  What could possibly go wrong?  If only people weren’t so condescending about graphic novels, they would discover tomes like this (436 pages) which reveal how one person dealt with horrible conditions and exorcised them though the retelling of this story.  

Alice Guy: First Lady of Film Catel & Bocquet (2022)

Kiki De Montparnasse Catel & Bocquet (2011)

Josephine Baker Catel & Bocquet (2017)

Catel Muller and José-Louis Bocquet (artist and author respectively) are French and they write graphic novels about important French artists.  Alice Guy is an important silent film director who was almost written out of history (see the documentary Be Natural for more information). Alice Prin aka Kiki was muse to the likes of French painters such as Man Ray (who was her lover for years), Jean Cocteau, Fujita Tsuguharu and Moise Kisling among others, but she was also an actress, a painter, a musician and she appears in countless movies, photographs, paintings and sculptures.  Josephine Baker wasn’t French, she was American but it was the French who knew what to do with her.  I wrote off Baker after seeing two of her films.  She seemed to have the most annoying schtick in every film: crossing her eyes, wagging her tongue and doing the Charleston in film after film.  However, this book tells you the importance of Ms Baker. It changed my mind about Baker.  Catel & Bocquet write some incredibly interesting books and I will now read whatever else they write and draw from this point on.  

Acting Class Nick Drnaso (2022)

Absolutely the most unsettling book on this list.  Drnaso wrote the equally unsettling Sabrina (about a woman who suffers great loss only to be hounded by people who claim it is all staged). In Acting Class you aren’t entirely sure what is wrong you just know something isn’t right.  A group of disparate strangers enroll in an acting class and they all bond together.  However, their teacher is an odd character but then so are several of the students. Drnaso knows how to make his reader extremely uncomfortable and that only makes for powerful reading.  (And yes, pay attention to the drawings because you will see clues as to how to distinguish everyone because sometimes in this hugely populated book, you might feel you aren’t able to keep the characters straight.  But you can.)

In. Will McPhail (2021)

This book contains my favorite artwork in all of these novels.  McPhail has a simple style that is far more complicated that you might think at first.  This is a look at a man, Nick Moss, who is an artist who has difficulty connecting with people and saying meaningful things.  He feels as if all his conversations are superficial and that he connects with no one because he is predominantly preoccupied with himself. When he finally does connect with people he knows and so will the reader.  This is one of those quiet books that shouldn’t be overlooked.

Revolution In Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay and Julien Eltinge David Hadju & John Carey (2021)

In which we learn there is nothing new under the sun that hasn’t already been done before.  Here, we follow three actors from the early 1900s and all three were actual people who performed on stage.  Bert Williams was a black actor who refused to perform in blackface, Eva Tanguay was an actress who believed women should be as free with their sexuality as men are. She dressed in men’s clothes (to shock and provoke) and she openly slept with both men and women.  Julien Eltinge dressed like a woman and his act saw him simply coming on stage winking at men and stripping, never uttering a word. His strip tease drove men crazy because they thought he was a she.  Once they discovered she was a he, things got a little bit crazy.  

Missing in Action:

Black Hole Charles Burns (2005)

Originally published as 12 comics between 1995 and 2005, it focuses on a group of high school kids in Seattle in the mid 1970s who contract a deforming mutation to their bodies following sexual intercourse with someone who already has “the Bug” as it is referred to. In usual Charles Burns fashion it is poignant, complex and extremely cleverly written and the artwork is fantastic. Burns might just be one of my very favorite artists working in the medium today. 

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Comics Image & Skybound Stillwater Fascículos 3, 8 y 9

Nadie muere. En la ciudad de Stillwater, eso no es sólo una promesa. Es una amenaza. Únase al escritor superestrella CHIP ZDARSKY (THE WHITE TREES, Daredevil) y al artista ganador del premio Eisner RAMÓN K PÉREZ (Jim Henson's Tale of Sand, Jane) mientras se sumergen en un mundo de horror e intriga en esta nueva serie Skybound.

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Ramón K. Pérez chats with True North Country Comics Podcast about RAID Studio projects and his own comic book plans in advance of #TorontoComicon2024. https://truenorthcountrycomics.com/2024/03/12/ramon-k-perez-offers-update-on-raid-studio-leading-up-to-toronto-comicon-2024/

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Deep Cuts #4 by Kyle Higgins, Joe Clark and Ramón K. Pérez. Cover by Chris Brunner. Out in July.

"New York City. 1956. Fresh out of prison, a gifted but troubled musician struggles to put his band—and his life—back together. The DEEP CUTS team is joined by Eisner Award-winning artist RAMÓN K PÉREZ (STILLWATER, Tale of Sand) for a time-hopping tale of injustice, redemption, and bebop!"

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Marvel Two In One 10 #

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Jane von Aline Brosh McKenna ist eine überaus gelungene Interpretation des viktorianischen Klassikers Jane Eyre. Es ist eine Autobiographie der britischen Autorin Charlotte Brontë. Geschickt und vor allem auch visuell sehr ansprechend von Ramón K. Pérez umgesetzt, überträgt Aline Brosh McKenna die Geschichte einer jungen Gouvernante in die Gegenwart.

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DEBUTING AT TCAF 2019: RAID TWO By Various Artists

$20 CAD, Self-Published

RAID TWO, our follow up to the aptly named RAID ONE! Coming in at a giant 144 full pages it showcases all-new and original content by RAID creators and colleagues. Featuring work by Kalman Andrasofszky, Sheldon Carter, Taran Chadha, Willow Dawson, Anthony Falcone, Ian Herring, Joe Infurnari, Irma Kniivila, Nimit Malavia, Rachel Matile (RHYMEwithRACHEL), Ramón K Pérez, Gabe Sapienza, Gibson Quarter, Kyle J Smith, Cameron Stewart, Mike Valiquette, Eric Vedder, Joe Vriens (JOVERINE), and Tri Vuong!

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Jane

by Aline Brosh McKenna,Ramón K. Pérez; Irma Kniivila and Deron Bennett

Archaia

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2009 Free Comic Book Day: The Gauntlet of Death

Story by Henry Gilroy, art by Ramón K Pérez and letters by Michael Heisler