What do you do when you flunk out of art school? Well if the running joke is to be believed, then becoming a comic book illustrator is right up your alley.
But I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that the originators of that joke never saw Alex Ross’s illustrations. Mr. Ross has become well known in the comic book world as the man behind some of the most beautiful and celebrated illustrations of our time, the artistic mastermind behind now legendary works such as Kingdom Come and Uncle Sam.
Ross’s illustrations are instantly recognizable: each panel is a masterfully staged, lusciously vibrant, realistic oil and watercolor painting of the quality that would likely have had Raphael and Rockwell salivating. Admittedly, the both men may have had some questions about the subjects’ garish primary colored outfits, but every artist has their own muse, and the superheros are precisely what makes Ross’s work interesting (and fun).
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