About
EMAIL: georges@kabalounge.com
GEORGES JEANTY was born in Brooklyn, New York, raised near the sunny beaches of Miami, Florida, and currently resides in Long Beach, California. After majoring in the Fine Arts, at Miami-dade University, he considered a career in acting, but decided to use his artistic talent to pursue a career as a commercial artist.
Inspired by the comics he read as a kid- 70’s comic book superhero icons like Luke Cage, Fantastic Four and Saga of the Swamp Thing- Georges made comic books his focus. His artist influences includes John Bryne, Michael Golden, Alan Davis, and a list of others too long to include here.
Georges’ first break into comics was Paradigm #1 (1994) published by Caliber Comics. Soon after, he worked on the “bad girl” comics for London Night Studios, featuring various characters like Poizon, Stryke, and Razor. Moving to Atlanta in 1999, Georges joined the ranks of Atlanta-based Gaijin Studios.
After breaking in at DC Comics, on titles like Green Lantern, Superboy, and Superman, Marvel Comics offered Georges his first regular ongoing monthly series- Bishop: The Last X-man (1999). Georges’ Marvel work also included Gambit, Deadpool, Weapon X, and the X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse mini-comic for the Activision video game.
During this time, in 2003, Georges left Gaijin Studios to form Atlanta-based Studio Revolver, with Dexter Vines, Tom Feister, and Tariq Hassan.
In 2006, Wildstorm Comics paired Georges with Hollywood screenwriter John Ridley, for The American Way, a controversial comic book mini-series set in the turbulent ’60s, that received tremendous underground and internet buzz. Georges soon had another brush with Hollywood royalty, when Joss Whedon hand-picked him to be the regular artist of the highly anticipated Buffy: The Vampire Slayer Season 8 comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics.
Recently, Georges’ art transcended media with the release of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 8 Motion Comics produced by Fox Home Entertainment. And during WonderCon 2011, Dark Horse Comics officially announced that Georges will return as regular artist for Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 9.
In addition to being an incredibly charming person, Georges is a man of many hats- adventurer, scholar, Prince officianonto, Godzilla fan, sometimes table dancer, and all around nice guy. But above all these, “Comic Book Artist” seems to best fit our man of mirth, mystery and intrigue!
