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Alex RossLegend

Creators whose work defined the medium and still shapes how comics look today. See all legends

Comic ArtistCover ArtistPainter

Ross paints superheroes as though they were standing in the room: real light, real weight, real fabric. Marvels and Kingdom Come reframed familiar characters as monuments seen from street level, and his covers are now the images many readers picture when they think of these characters at all.

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Work and credits

Notable works

Marvels
Kingdom Come
Justice
Earth X
Uncle Sam
Superman: Peace on Earth
Batman: War on Crime
Shazam!: Power of Hope
Wonder Woman: Spirit of Truth

Publishers

DC Comics Marvel Comics

Related artists

Artists who share conventions, publishers or titles with Alex Ross.

Andy KubertMajor

Comic Artist, Letterer, Penciller

Andy Kubert stages superhero stories like film, with wide establishing shots, clean sightlines and a steady build to the hit. He drew X-Men through the nineties, then Wolverine: Origin, Marvel 1602, Batman and Son and Flashpoint.

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Marc SilvestriLegend

Comic Artist, Inker, Penciller

Silvestri draws in sharp angles, whipping hair and tense wiry anatomy, a look that defined a stretch of Uncanny X-Men and Wolverine. He co-founded Image Comics and built Top Cow, home to Witchblade, Cyberforce and The Darkness.

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John Romita JrLegend

Artist, Comic Artist, Penciller

Romita builds figures from blocky, weighted shapes that land with real force. Across four decades he has drawn most of the Marvel line, from Amazing Spider-Man and Daredevil to Thor and Uncanny X-Men, plus Kick-Ass with Mark Millar and a run on Superman.

David MazzucchelliLegend

Cartoonist, Comic Artist, Graphic Novelist

Mazzucchelli's superhero output is small and enormously influential. Born Again and Batman: Year One taught a generation what restraint and empty space can carry, after which he left the genre for literary work including Asterios Polyp.

Frank MillerLegend

Comic Artist, Penciller, Writer

Miller writes and draws in hard shadow and clipped rhythm. His Daredevil brought crime-fiction structure into superhero comics, The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One recast Batman for a generation, and Sin City stripped the whole approach down to black-and-white noir.

Mike MignolaLegend

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Writer

Mignola composes in flat black shapes, letting shadow do the work a dozen lines would elsewhere. That language, drawing on folklore and pulp, produced Hellboy and the whole B.P.R.D. universe built around it.

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