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A collection of Alex Ross's DC work. There are some pieces in here that you can't find anywhere else. There is also some behind the senses information.
Alex Ross brought fine art to comic books, and really revolutionized comic book art. This is a collection of many of his works. It's a marvelous piece for any art fan, any comic book fan, or for anyone who is both. Sometimes you look at his art and find it unbelievable that someone did that with a paintbrush and paint. You actually get to meet the real Superman and real Batman in his paintings. They're so lifelike and wonderful to look at.
Alex Ross is probably my favorite modern comic artist. The art he produces is not even really comic art to me and becomes something bigger and better. Excellent collection of his work for DC. Highly recommended
Gorgeous artwork, printed here in wonderful bright colours. Even if you don't read it, worth looking through it.
a beautiful book with great art. A must have coffee table book for those who love comics. You can spend hours just slowly turning the pages. If you don't have it yet, run out and get it now :)
Wonderful art and story to go with
(More pictures at parkablogs.com)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 photog
My favorite art book. There’s just no comparison to Ross. His talent mixed with his more realistic flare and style simply cannot be matched, and this book shows you his best work in all its glory. His wax figures are also shown, which are downright mind-blogging. A fantastic collection from a fantastic artist.
Wow. Only a talent of this caliber can present some of the most iconic figures known in our cultural sphere as being more than 2D images, but flesh and blood. It's a testament to the talent of Alex Ross that he can create such vibrancy through the use of gouache. The only reason why I didn't give this book a five-star rating was that it could have benefited from more material documenting his process from inception to end and all the steps inbetween--similar to how creation of the cover image was...
THE EISNER AWARD-WINNING, NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING MYTHOLOGY IS HERE IN PAPERBACK, IN AN EXPANDED EDITION WITH 32 NEW PAGES.Mythology returns, in a newly expanded paperback edition of the book Entertainment Weekly awarded a grade of A, saying: “Alex Ross brings to his work an unparalleled sense of the real. His heroes–both super and mortal–have weight; they exist in space, and that space is affected by them in ways never before seen on the page.” And so here they are, the incomparable cast of the...
My "second" look of 2013 of...The DC Comics Art of Alex RossPretty much says it all.If you're a fan of Ross and DC (like moi)... this is a great addition to your collection.OK, so after getting The Dynamite Art of Alex Ross, I just had to pull this back off the shelf and give it another look-thru.Great looking book with great looking art. I think I may be over-dosing on Ross's paintings though, so time to put it aside and move on to something else.
"Mythology" is not only a superb collection of the breathtaking comic-book artwork of Alex Ross (he's known for his photorealistic paintings of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and their brethren -- pictures that have to be seen in high-quality reproductions, such as those in this book, to be properly appreciated), it's also a lovely recounting of both his lifelong love affair with the comics and his obviously close relationship with both his parents. His childhood drawings of Superman are as char...
Bloody fantastic. Alex Ross is absolutely talented and the things he can do with media, especially watercolor... WOW.
An amazing story! It's with mythology we find our basis for truth and reality. In this tome we are given the beautiful art of Alex Ross to boot! Check out this wonderful book. You will be glad that you did!
A great book showcasing the amazing art by Alex Ross.
Met Ross at an event held at the Random House office promoting the publication of Mythology (Kingdom Come also signed).
The art is, of course, gorgeous. But the likelihood is that anyone who is fan enough to read the book will also have read "Kingdom Come", and so much space could have been better spent on "behind the scenes" images and harder to find pieces than on blown-up panels from his more famous books. That and it seemed that the last chunk of the book was one big plug for the then-forthcoming "Justice" series.
This is great as a coffee table book -- its large size, the flashy colors, the ornate artwork... it was meant for casual perusing. I've probably flipped through this book a few dozen times, but only recently decided to read it cover to cover, page by page.The result was a confirmation that this is indeed a very segmented read, each page respectable as standalone works of art and observation. If you come over to my house and sit on my couch without picking this up for a few seconds, you're missin...
Beautiful art and a fascinating story about the artist.
Proof that, with time and patience, the comic can be a thing of true art and beauty.