Alex Ross is a comic book artist of World renown and is famous across the genre, with 1000s of pages and cover art completed. But if you haven’t heard his name before I can assure you that you have seen this amazing artwork!
UK Published Artwork
Here in the UK, he has had his fine art limited editions published by three major publishing houses between 2014 - 2020: Washington Green, Wi
Alex Ross is a comic book artist of World renown and is famous across the genre, with 1000s of pages and cover art completed. But if you haven’t heard his name before I can assure you that you have seen this amazing artwork!
UK Published Artwork
Here in the UK, he has had his fine art limited editions published by three major publishing houses between 2014 - 2020: Washington Green, Wishbone, and the latest being Demontfort Fine Art.
Washington Green - featured a limited edition series of DC Comic legends: Superman & Batman.
Wishbone - had the exclusive distribution in the UK for some of the 'Alex Ross - Marvel Shadows Collection', beautiful upright portraits of legends: Iron Man, Captain America, Wonder Woman, Superman & Batman.
Demontfort (after a publishing break of 6 years) signed Alex and in November 2020 & released 'Alex Ross - DC Legends Collection' and later in May 2021 the 'Alex Ross - Marvel A Time For Heroes Collection.'
These two series are a mixture of on paper on canvas release images and represented some of the highest print reproduction achieved to date for Alex imagery. Of course all are signed by the artist for added long term value. Personally, I also think it is some of his most technically & artistically paintings to date!
2019-2020 News (Snippets)
We are pleased to add the 'Batman' limited ❤️ edition (just a few copies left) to Alex's UK exclusive 'Shadows Collection' of five super heroes: Iron Man, Captain America, Wonder Woman, Superman and now Batman! - October 2020
In 2019 Hasbro toy company released the 'Marvel Legends' collection based on Alex's designs at the New York Toy Fair, to celebrate Marvel Comics 80th Birthday - those three figures depicted: Thor, Iron Man and Captain America.
**Alex Ross discusses his paintings and comics
Background & Artistic Journey
Oregon born Alex Ross is a comic book artist, and indeed writer, of some accolade on both sides of the pond and graduated from the prestigious American Academy of Art in Chicago. He is a multi-time winner of the Eisner and Harvey Awards for his comic book drawings and cover art & won the Comics Buyers Guide's CBG Fan award as their favourite artist, for an incredible 7 years running - leading to its retirement in his honour!
The artist was raised in Texas & by the time he reached his early teens, was creating his own comic books scripts and art. Within a decade Ross was employed by Marvel comics, a phenomenal achievement for such a young artist!
Lauded for his humanising portrayals of these comic bound characters, his much loved drawing style has an almost micro attention to detail and as a result, his art is labour intensive & time consuming, so Ross now mostly creates cover art. Not surprisingly, Ross was influenced at college by the paintings of Dali & the illustrator J. C. Leyendecker, seeing their hyper-realism as just a few steps from comic book art.
**Inside the legendary comic book artist's studio
Alex Ross Today
Firmly established as one of the world's premier Comic illustrators, Ross works on a number of outside projects during the year, off the top of my head that includes: concept art for the movies Spider-Man (2002) & Spider-Man 2 (2004), art for the Academy Awards and downloads for the Call Of Duty computer game franchise.
There are now a plethora of action figures based on Alex's paintings, including: the DC Direct Kingdom Come & Justice ranges, their Elseworlds toys and the ToyFare magazine released Red Arrow figure to name but a few. Also, as well as Marvel and DC Comics, Alex has created art for other famous comic names such as: 'Battle Of The Planets/ Thundercats,' 'Star Wars' and the 'Terminator.'
The artist regularly appears at US Comic Con conventions to meet and greet fans and is so popular. that in his absence his artwork travels on its own and this becomes a destination attraction in its own right - fans often queue for selfies with his original paintings of their favourite Marvel and DC Superheroes!
Here in the UK, the artist has released best selling collections of signed limited edition prints with Washington Green Fine Art publishers and later two immensely well received mini-collections with Wishbone Fine Art publishers - including the UK exclusive 'Shadows collection.'
