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I just received my book today. Buy this book if you like Alex Ross. You will not regret it.
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Love the book...a Christmas gift for my son. Packaging for the book was a thin white envelope. The edges of the book were completly smashed in. The book had been listed as "excellent" for the condtion, so I am assumuing the bad condition was due to poor shipping. A padded envelope would have helped. Sorry!
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Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3S4O2IVIDB15U This book on Alex Ross comic art is stunning. There are comics where the characters are brought to life by the art and story, but you know that they are still created from imagination. With Alex Ross, it seems like he's drawing a character that really exists. His sense of realism is unparalleled. He blurs the line between fantasy and reality.
He's compared often with Norman Rockwell and it's apt, but Alex Ross is in a class of his own too. He, too, uses photographic references to amazing results.
This book is packed with breathtaking paintings, many of which are full page. It's also filled with his sketches and accompanying commentary talking from anything about his childhood, comic characters and influences like Andrew Loomis and various comic artists. There are lots to read. There's also a section which details his drawing process, from getting a reference, to inking and then colouring.
Although there are no chapters, the content is grouped by the superheroes he drew, namely Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Shazam, The Justice Society, The Justice League, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, Plastic Man, Green Arrow, Hawkman, The Atom, The Flash, Supergirl, Batgirl and a whole lot more. These superheroes must have felt honored to be drawn by Alex Ross.
This book is really value for money -- 320 pages of top quality art and awesome for only US$20. Highly recommended to all artists and comic fans.
(More pictures are available on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
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It's just about impossible to express ones absolute respect and appreciation for this book, because there is an unparalleled sense of realism in fantasy, that alex ross has brought to life in it.Alex Ross is not just a doodler who draws sticks figures but instead creates realistic touchable characters that almost jump out at you and because of this His heroes are all both super and mortally regal and grand in there incomparable height of size for there stature as icons,of dc comics universe which of course are superman, batman wonder woman, the flash, aquaman, the green lantern and the rest of the justice league like you've never seen or imagined them before which is because he bring,s them all to life in our world through an incredibly talented way which must give him such love and understanding of the characters he creates that it becomes pure passionate hobby for him to do on these original classic superheros in which He has done that and more and has captured our imagination and taken it to a place where only fantasy and myth reigns supereme and made it mortally and truthfully mythically plausible,in which I can't speak highly enough for that or this book because of it,s extraordinary beauty he has capture in it which in the end is impossible for anyone to appreciate without reading or owning this book of mythical fantasy!
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I freely admit to a "love-hate" affair with comic books. I don't read them, but somehow, I remain conversant, in a basic fashion, with the ongoing major plot lines. I think this is simply because I am enthralled with myth and its role in our lives. And this book from the talented pen and brushes of Alex Ross more than lives up to its title.
Ross has taken the major characters of the DC universe and created three dimensional icons that clearly owe a great deal to artists like Rockwell and Wyeth with a dash of better offerings from the school of heroic "socialist realism." Like Frank Miller's disturbing and sparse comic art in "The Dark Knight," Ross goes the other direction to equally masterful effect. Lush, vibrant colors and a scrupulous attention to detail re-imagine the great super-heroes as they might actually appear if they really existed. Not to sound too maudlin, but Ross was clearly engaged in a labor of love and pulls it off, placing him, in my opinion, with the likes of Miller, Lee, Rodriguez, and Kane.
No comic book lover would fail to appreciate this wonderful book.
Fantastic. Recommened with enthusiasm!
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