Alex Ross is one of the worlds most pre-eminent and well-respected comic book artists.

Ross’ recent works have celebrated the 60th anniversaries of Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman with fully painted, tabloid-sized books, depicting each of these characters using their powers to inspire humanity as well as help them.

Alex Ross is a favourite comic book artist of mine, ever since a friend bought me his comic book cover collections a few years ago.Alex Ross has done work for both Marvel comics (whose characters include Spider man, X men and Iron man) and DC comics (whose characters include Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman).

It was at the Academy that Ross hit on the idea of painting his own comic books. “There wasn’t any moment where I saw the light and said, ‘Painted comics! That’s the way!’” he recalls. “It was a by-product of my studies.

There wasn’t any program that taught me to ink a comic book. There were programs that taught me to paint. I just naturally thought, ‘Well, of course I’m going to apply that to comics.’ There were also enough painted comics out there — not a lot, but a few — that made me think that talent could be applied.”

Here is a very informative tool to help discover information about your favourite characters and how they inter- relate Marvel Universe and the entire Justice League including all the heroes and villains  of DC comics.

I know this isn’t strictly digital art however it has many similarities to photo realism in pixel and vector style design; as well as matte painting and concept art. Furthermore a lot of these characters have been brought to the big screen and computer game genre and will continue to do so increasing the validity of comics as an inspiration to graphic designers and digital creatives.

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