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Rough Justice

Rough Justice

The DC Comics Sketches of Alex Ross

by Alex Ross and Chip Kidd
Hardback
Publication Date: 30/03/2010

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Alex 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.

Thousands of fans from around the world have trilled to Alex's fully rendered photo-realistic painting 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.

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 anyone who thought they already know all of Alex's DC Comics work.

Illuminating everything is Alex's own commentary, written expressly for this book, explaining his though 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.

As a record of a pivotal era in comics history, Rough Justice is a must for Alex's legion of fans, as well as anyone interested in masterly comic book imagination and illustration.
ISBN:
9780375714900
9780375714900
Category:
The arts: general issues
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
30-03-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
288x224x31mm
Weight:
1.22kg
Alex Ross

Alex Ross has been the music critic of the ‘New Yorker’ since 1996. From 1992 to 1996 he wrote for the New York Times. His first book, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, published in 2007, was awarded the Guardian First Book Award and was shortlisted for the Pulitzer and Samuel Johnson prizes.

In 2008 he became a MacArthur Fellow. A native of Washington, DC, he now lives in Manhattan.

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