Alex Ross has produced more than 1,500 pages of comics
material in less than fourteen years–an extraordinary body of work
that has earned him every major award in the industry. Ross was
born in Portland, Oregon, in 1970 and eventually settled in
Chicago, where he attended the American Academy of Art. Among his
best known books are: Marvels, Kingdom Come, Uncle Sam, Earth X,
Superman: Peace on Earth, Batman: War on Crime, and JLA: Liberty
and Justice.
Chip Kidd is the author and designer of Batman Collected and
Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz. His book jacket designs for
Alfred A. Knopf helped break new ground in the field from the late
1980s to the present. The Cheese Monkeys, Kidd’s first novel,
published in 2001, was a New York Times Notable Book of the
Year.
Geoff Spear has photographed for numerous publications,
including Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, GQ, Newsweek, and The New
York Times. His images have also appeared in national ad campaigns
for AT&T, American Express, Citibank, and IBM. His photographs
for Batman Collected were chosen for the American Photography
annual of the best of 1996.
“Alex’s unique style combines the best of the fantastic and the
real, creating a world where myths walk and leave tangible
footprints in the sand.”
–Paul Levitz, President and Publisher, DC Comics
Adult/High School-This is a coffee-table tribute to the work of the cartoonist. Kind of an odd blend of Norman Rockwell meets Saturday morning cartoons, Ross's gouache painted art glows on the pages. Interspersed with quotations by the artist and those who know him, Kidd's sparse text takes readers on a brief tour of Ross's childhood to his early days in advertising and comic books, finally ending with the limited series "Kingdom Come" (Warner, 1998), which combined hyper-realistic artwork with unusually complex storytelling. The book not only displays samples of finished works but also includes sketches, photographs of live models, and comic art dating back to the 1930s. For a humorous touch, Kidd includes samples of Ross's childhood art, with pieces ranging from rough copies of comic covers to endearing sculptures of Batman and others made out of construction paper. Ultimately, Ross is an artist who quests to reuse and redevelop classic characters like Superman and Wonder Woman and elevate their stories to a level more sophisticated readers can enjoy. High goals, but this man makes it work.-Matthew L. Moffett, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Ross redraws all the DC Comics heroes-and comes up with a 100,000-copy first printing. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
"Alex's unique style combines the best of the fantastic and the
real, creating a world where myths walk and leave tangible
footprints in the sand."
-Paul Levitz, President and Publisher, DC Comics
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