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Rough Justice

March 31, 2010: Alex Ross Talks "Rough Justice"

ComicBookResources.com caught up with artist Alex Ross to talk to him about the release of his new coffee table book "Rough Justice", a collection of unseen DC Comics sketch material.

    One worry the artist didn't have was not being able to pull together enough material for "Rough Justice" as "usually the stuff from the last five years or so I have a pretty good grasp of and good organization of. It gets hard when there's things from deeper in the past that we have to dig up and see what came before that may never have been seen. I've got - I don't know how many years of history with DC Comics. I've got close to 18 years, I guess, of work with them, and there's quite a lot you can peel back through. We have a bit of a token section towards Kingdom Come where we go, 'You know it's my big thing, so here are some sketches you haven't seen before...now let's get to the new stuff!'" Ross joked.

    In all seriousness, the artist's landmark comic looking into a dark future for the DCU was perhaps more relevant to his work in recent years than it had been since completing "Kingdom Come" in 1996. "I think that it'll feel like it's right between all those things because I did spend the last several years with DC working on an homage to/reinterpretation of 'Kingdom Come' via 'Justice Society of America' with Geoff Johns. It all comes together in this book where you see a bit of the past and how that connects to my planning for the present."

You can read the complete article at the CBR website.

"Rough Justice: The DC Comics Sketches of Alex Ross" is available to purchase from Amazon.com.



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