NOW IN PAPERBACK, WITH COLOR AND BLACK-AND-WHITE DRAWINGS THROUGHOUTAlex Ross opens his private sketchbooks to reveal his astonishing pencil and ink drawings of DC Comics characters, nearly all of them appearing in print here for the first time in paperback.
Receiving critical acclaim and multiple awards for these best-selling works, Ross made a name as both an artist and a storyteller, dedicating himse.
He moved on to DC Comics to produce the equally successful Kingdom Come, the Earth X projects for Marvel, and a series of tabloids for DC, which have been collected in The World\'s Greatest Super-Heroes.
His 1993 miniseries Marvels created a wider acceptance for painted comics.
About the Author: Alex Ross studied illustration at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, then honed his craft as a storyboard artist before entering the Comics field.
As a record of a pivotal era in Comics history, Rough Justice is a must-have for Alex\'s legion of fans, as well as for anyone interested in masterly comic book imagination and illustration.
Illuminating everything is the artist\'s own commentary, written expressly for this book, explaining his thought processes and stylistic approaches for the various riffs and reimaginings of characters we thought we knew everything about but whose possibilities we didn\'t fully understand.
From deleted scenes and altered panels for the epic Kingdom Come saga to proposals for revamping such classic properties as Batgirl, Captain Marvel, and an imagined son of Batman named Batboy, to unused alternate comic book cover ideas for the monthly Superman and Batman Comics of 2008-2009, there is much to surprise and delight those who thought they already knew all of Alex\'s DC Comics work.
Thousands of fans from around the world have thrilled to Alex\'s fully rendered photo-realistic paintings of their favorite heroes, but, as they may not realize, all of those works start as pencil on paper, and the origins of the finished images are rarely seen--until now.
NOW IN PAPERBACK, WITH COLOR AND BLACK-AND-WHITE DRAWINGS THROUGHOUTAlex Ross opens his private sketchbooks to reveal his astonishing pencil and ink drawings of DC Comics characters, nearly all of them appearing in print here for the first time in paperback
