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, Boom! Comics, 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’s Trace Beaulieu and “Super Powered Revenge Christmas” a full graphic novel with Bill Corbett (Rifftrax). His self-published 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, Hawaii and San Diego Comic Con. Len was also listed as one of the Top 100 Geeks To Follow on Twitter by Wired Magazine. In 2018, he began teaching digital art, comics and graphic design at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Len has also been podcasting for over 15 years. He produces a show called Jawbone Radio (one of the first podcasts in the country), records his Geek A Week podcast on a semi-regular basis and is the co-host of Creature Geek with SFX/makeup effects pro Frank Ippolito.

Len resides in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio with his wife of over 25 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.

Patty And The Stump

During the 2016 election cycle, when the RNC found itself in Cleveland, I was working on a fun children’s book that had an allegorical bent to it. “Patty and The Stump” was written by Spike Manton and Tim Clue and is available for sale on Amazon.com in both paperback and Kindle format. Can you figure […]

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Munchkin From Boom! Comics

Len is a regular contributor to Boom! Studios Munchkin series. He has even done an entire issue (written, illustrated and cover). Be sure to look out for Issue #15 in comic stores now!

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Game Design Work

Len has designed games for Steve Jackson Games, AdMagic/Breaking Games and others. Some of his titles include Guest Artist Editions of the popular Munchkin Series, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Boardgame and Order of Invention.

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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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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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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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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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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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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

If you were at #Blizzcon earlier this month, you probably ran…

November 14, 2016

If you were at #Blizzcon earlier this month, you probably ran into two Murlocs handing out papers for the new Hearthstone expansion. Those two Murlocs were created by my CreatureGeek co-host, Frank Ippolito. Frank and his crew did all the heavy lifting on the project, but he asked me early on in the process to do some concept sketching for the Murlocs. This went from initial design to costuming to how the suits would actually work. They actually used some of my ideas in the final construct. You can see a pretty comprehensive video of how Frank and his team assembled the final Murlocs at Tested.

They turned out fantastic and I’m happy I was able to work on them in some small way. Let me know what you think!

If you were at #Blizzcon earlier this month, you probably ran…

If you were at #Blizzcon earlier this month, you probably ran into two Murlocs handing out papers for the new Hearthstone expansion. Those two Murlocs were created by my CreatureGeek co-host, Frank Ippolito. Frank and his crew did all the heavy lifting on the project, but he asked me early on in the process to do some concept sketching for the Murlocs. This went from initial design to costuming to how the suits would actually work. They actually used some of my ideas in the final construct. You can see a pretty comprehensive video of how Frank and his team assembled the final Murlocs at Tested.

They turned out fantastic and I’m happy I was able to work on them in some small way. Let me know what you think!

This was a cover for the Adult Coloring Book I worked on that is…

September 12, 2016

This was a cover for the Adult Coloring Book I worked on that is not going to be used. I really liked it, but the feedback was that it looked “too professional” I get that. Still a great cover though. Get the coloring book (with the new cover) here.

This was a cover for the Adult Coloring Book I worked on that is…

This was a cover for the Adult Coloring Book I worked on that is not going to be used. I really liked it, but the feedback was that it looked “too professional” I get that. Still a great cover though. Get the coloring book (with the new cover) here.

Here are the first images from an allegorical tale I am…

July 26, 2016

Here are the first images from an allegorical tale I am currently working on loosely based on Trump called “Patty and The Stump” by Tim Clue and Spike Manton. Trump of course, is the Stump. I’m pulling a lot of influence from Berke Breathed on these images. His pseudo-political cartoons from the 80s were a part of me growing up and his work influenced me greatly. I hope that shows through. It’s a fun little story, not TOO overtly political and hopefully will be out pre-election.