Wednesday, 17 April 2024

HEXAGON SPOTLIGHT ON... JOSÉ LUIS RUIZ



7x10 squarebound comic, 
48 pages
 color. 
ISBN-13: 978-1-64932-261-6. 
US$12.95.
https://www.hexagoncomics.com/shop-hexagon-spotlight-on-jose-luis-ruiz.html
 

José Luis Ruiz Pérez was a tremendously gifted artist and it is my greatest honor to have been able to work with him for these past eight years. It was Manuel Martín Peniche who introduced him to me, and I will be eternally grateful to him for that. Not only was his work superb, reminiscent of the great American artists of the 1960s, such as Dick Giordano or Carmine Infantino, but he was also a very kind and friendly man, judging from our correspondence.


He will be greatly missed, not only by us here at Hexagon, but by many, many devoted fans of his.

Perez died after a long battle with cancer in 2023 and this book is a fitting showcase of some of his work -pencilled, inked and full colour and just to give you a taster look at these:




This type of book is a real treat -no story just great artwork and from an artist not unknown to Hexagon comic fans so a fitting tribute.

Oh, please order directly from the Hexagon site if you are interested in this and other titles as that means the publisher gets the profit not the big selling companies.

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