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Pop! Goes The Icon
Pop! Goes the Icon or PGTI, is an independent United States, American comic book publisher based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada. Company history Pop! Goes the Icon started as a blog by Las Vegas-based writer Pj Perez in 2007, whose topics included comic books and popular culture. After turning over the day-to-day updating of the blog to fellow Las Vegas writer Jarret Keene, Perez worked in secret to revamp PGTI as a boutique publisher of comic books, webcomics and other works of pop culture. The blog was relaunched as the new PGTI website in April, 2009, announcing a forthcoming webcomic by Perez called ''The Utopian (comics), The Utopian.'' The first print comic published by PGTI was ''The Utopian'' #0, a limited-edition (only 50 copies were produced) sampler comic distributed for free at 2009's San Diego Comic-Con International, which collected the first 16 pages from the ''Utopian'' webcomic. The regular print series of ''The Utopian'' began in the fall of 2009 and co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pj Perez
Pj Perez (born August 4, 1976) is an American editor, writer, musician and filmmaker, best known for his reports and commentary on Las Vegas culture in such publications as ''Rolling Stone''. Perez was the founding managing editor of Las Vegas-based ''Racket Magazine''. Writing Perez made his first forays into publishing with self-published 'zines and poetry chapbooks in the early and mid-1990s while performing on the Las Vegas poetry circuit and singing in short-lived bands before beginning his freelance writing career with ''Las Vegas CityLife'' in 2000. After writing for a number of local and regional publications including ''Las Vegas Weekly'' and ''Las Vegas Mercury'', Perez was recruited in late 2006 to launch a monthly lifestyle magazine called ''Racket''. After ''Racket'' went on indefinite hiatus, Perez returned to freelance journalism, writing for publications such as ''Six Degrees'' and ''HRH'' magazines. He was previously the Las Vegas Fine Arts Examiner for Examin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |