About Len

You can find Len Peralta’s quirky, offbeat style in comic books, card games, on t-shirts, posters and all over social media. Along with working on projects with companies like Discovery Channel, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Steve Jackson Games, Rifftrax and Noggin, Len has illustrated several books including “There’s A Zombie In My Treehouse” by John “Widgett” Robinson and Ken Plume, “Silly Rhymes For Belligerent Children” written by MST3K/Cinematic Titanic’s Trace Beaulieu and “Super Powered Revenge Christmas” a full graphic novel with Bill Corbett (Rifftrax). Recently, his graphic novel series, Exterminite, with Mikey Neumann and Kris Straub was named as a hot property for Hollywood to adapt.

Len is the resident artist every Friday for Tom Merritt’s Daily Tech News Show where he draws an original piece while the show is being recorded. His work has appeared on CNN.com, The New Yorker and at gallery exhibitions in Chicago, Cleveland, New York and San Diego Comic Con. Len was also listed as one of the Top 100 Geeks To Follow on Twitter by Wired Magazine.

Len has also been podcasting for over a decade. He produces a show called Jawbone Radio with his wife Nora, records his Geek A Week podcast on a semi-regular basis and is the co-host of Creature Geek on Tested, with SFX/makeup effects pro Frank Ippolito.

Len resides in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio with his wife of over 20 years, Nora. Together they have raised (and continue raising) their seven children. He is a hirable art gun and you can ask him to work on your next project. He promises to be really super easy to work with.

My Work

Here are a few projects (new and old) that you may like to know about.

Exterminite

Exterminite is a new graphic novel I am working on with Mike Neumann (Borderlands) and Kris Straub (Broodhollow). Additional coloring by Tim Switalski. You can find out more about Exterminite here.

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Super Powered Revenge Christmas

Super-Powered Revenge Christmas is a graphic novel using classic Christmas characters as the basis for an assembled superteam who fight off a conspiracy of powerful holiday villains. It is written by Bill Corbett (MST3K/Rifftrax) and was funded through the kind contributions of many Kickstarter backers. It was the first graphic novel I ever worked on. You can […]

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TenState

TenState is a Kickstarter funded comic written by Tom Merritt (Sword and Laser/Daily Tech News Show). You can pick up the first five issues as a graphic novel at my online store. Or support the ongoing creation of the comic on Patreon.

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Monster by Mail

In 2007, I started drawing and selling monster drawings to pay for the birth of my daughter. I sold over 700 monsters for people all over the world and have created a ton more speed drawing videos of the process. I still draw monsters if anyone wants them. I also have brought guest artists to […]

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FlipFace

Are you looking for a new face for your social media presence? Don’t want to use any real photos of yourself? Choose me to draw you as a Flipface! I consider these to be disposable pieces of art, something you can switch out quickly and add a little flair to your profile page.

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Geek a Week

Geek A Week was a one year art challenge started in March 2010 to attempt to connect with 52 influential geeks from different disciplines (art, movies, TV, computing, science). A trading card portrait complete with stats was created each week for the featured geek. By actually connecting with each geek, it completed the requirements for the […]

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Silly Rhymes For Belligerent Children

Trace Beaulieu (MST3K/Cinematic Titanic) literally tapped me on the shoulder and asked me if I wanted to work on a book with him. Being a card carrying member of the MST3K fan club, I couldn’t resist. The result was this wonderfully creepy tome with nods to Dr. Suess, Shel Silverstein, Tim Burton and more.

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Guardians Fan Art

Like everyone else, I loved Guardians of the Galaxy. So I went ahead and did some fan art of some of the characters. You can pick up a the whole art pack at my online store.

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D & D Commissions

Let me draw your D&D or RPG character. Check out a sampling of recent commissions. You can order these commissions at my online store.

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Blog

I remember the first time I was introduced to the game Munchkin….

August 10, 2015

I remember the first time I was introduced to the game Munchkin. It was at Dragoncon in 2010. My friend Widgett Walls sat me down and told me that I’d get the hang out it so just play. In the confusion, I don’t think we even finished the full game, but I made a mental note to pick up the base set when I got home from the con.

That was five years ago. And it looks like I’ve kicked down a door and gone up a level.

This morning, Steve Jackson Games announced that I will be one of the guest artists who will help celebrate the 15th anniversary of Munchkin by re-illustrating some now famous expansion sets. My game is Star Munchkin. This was seriously one of the most fun projects I’ve worked on this past year. It was the kind of project where I couldn’t even believe I was working on it. It was such a blast and I can’t wait until my set comes out early next year.

If you want to read more about the guest editions, check out this press release.

I felt I needed to draw this because of the return of one of my…

July 24, 2015

I felt I needed to draw this because of the return of one of my all-time favorite comic strips, Bloom County, has made me feel exactly this way. (To be clear, I’m more Opus than Steve Dallas in this instance.) I can’t believe I am reading brand new Bloom County strips on a semi-daily basis. Also, as I was sketching this out, I realized how much BC and Berke Breathed have influenced my style as an illustrator. I use a lot of the same techniques that I learned from drawing Bloom County strips as a kid in my pieces today. Thanks Mr. Breathed for coming back. You’ve made this old fan very happy indeed.

Believe it or not, this is my first piece of Ghostbusters fan…

July 22, 2015