Artist Alex Ross Talks Comic Book Career With CBS News
Dec 27, 2018
CBS paid a visit to legendary comic book artist Alex Ross' suburban Chicago studio to talk about his comic book career.
Ross showed off his "museum" of toys and collectibles, while talking to CBS News' Anthony Mason about his artistic upbringings.
"I'd been following comics my whole life and there had been these wonderful painted covers when I was a kid in the 70s that I just felt, man, to read a whole story that would look like that on the inside would be fantastic. Well, nobody was doing that then," Ross said.
The artist also talked about the difference of working with Marvel and DC.
"It's kind of a difference based upon mood and vibe of the material. There's something about the stoic heroes of DC that could be contrasted against the hyperkinetic heroes of Marvel," Ross said. "I knew from whatever you might call a very early age this is what I wanted to do, period. I wanted to make art of superheroes. I wanted to, you know, sort of live in their skin full time if I could."
Ross' work with the two iconic companies are collected in two hardcover editions, available at comic shops.
Here is Alex Ross' long-awaited Marvel Comics retrospective celebration: Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Panther, the Avengers, the X-Men, Doctor Strange, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and the Fantastic Four. Marvelocity includes more than 50 never-been-published sketches, paintings, photographs and working models, and other preparatory art, and a 14-panel portfolio gallery of Marvel's most beloved characters. And Ross has written a new 10-page story pitting Spider-Man against the Sinister Six, the webslinger's most popular villains, that ends with a stunning twist. Introduction by J. J. Abrams,
Here is the incomparable cast of the DC Comics universe: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, the Green Lantern, and the rest of the Justice League as you've never seen them before. Mythology brings together the best-loved comic characters in the world, brought to life by one of the most astonishing young artists working in the medium today, Alex Ross. The award-winning designer/writer Chip Kidd and photographer Geoff Spear have teamed up to create a book like no other, with an introduction by M. Night Shyamalan, the acclaimed director of Signs and The Sixth Sense.
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