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.
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/Cinematic Titanic’s Trace Beaulieu and “Super Powered Revenge Christmas” a full graphic novel with Bill Corbett (Rifftrax). Recently, 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.
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 with SFX/makeup effects pro Frank Ippolito, found on Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman’s Tested Network.
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.
Here are a few projects (new and old) that you may like to know about.
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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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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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 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 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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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.
In case you weren’t aware, The New Ghostbusters came out. I’m heading out to see it this weekend, along with a lot of other folks. But I’ll be watching extra close because last February, I was hired to do some concept sketches for the movie! I was among a dozen or so artists who was hired by Rick Lazzarini from amazing FX house The Character Shop to flesh out some concepts for the creative team. Rick has been posting a lot of other concept art from that session and comparatively, my stuff looks really bush league. However I am proud to say that I believe I was the only artist in the group who provided some early concepts for the proton packs and traps. I always felt that the traps in the original movie, while iconic, needed to have windows to see if the trap was full or not. To me, the flashing light left too much open to failure. Actually seeing the entity in the trap so you knew not to release it was important.
I’m not sure they incorporated my idea into the final design. They did re-design the traps to look more canister-like. But at the very least, I brought something new and interesting to the table.
It was a real dream come true and I hope to do more of it in the future. I’ve been dying to share my work for more than a year now, so I’m super excited to have you all see it! If there are any big Hollywood types out there who would like to employ my artistic services on their next film, hit me up! I’m open, yo!
Final image from the kids book I am currently not working on.
