Product Information
**NOW IN PAPERBACK, WITH COLOR AND BLACK-AND-WHITE DRAWINGS THROUGHOUT** 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 in paperback. 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. 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. 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. 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100307378780
ISBN-139780307378781
eBay Product ID (ePID)111942304
Product Key Features
GenreArt, Comics & Graphic Novels
Publication Year2012
LanguageEnglish
Artist/WriterAlex Ross
Dimensions
Item Height0.6in
Item Length10.8in
Item Width8.5in
Item Weight32.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
SeriesPantheon Graphic Library
Reviews"For any artists wanting to break into comics, Rough Justice is a visual treasure trove to guide them, as surely as any by Da Vinci or Michelangelo. But more important, it's a volume that gives comics fans a rare opportunity to celebrate a top artist in action. Alex Ross is a master shaper of superhero worlds." -denofgeek.com
Dewey Edition22
Book TitleRough Justice : the DC Comics Sketches of Alex Ross
Target AudienceTrade
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal741.5/973
TopicSuperheroes, Techniques / Cartooning, Popular Culture, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General