Alex Ross was probably the first artist to "paint" a comic (certainly the first one in the mainstream circle) and today is considered one of the world’s most preeminent and well-respected comic book artists around. His first big project in the comic industry was "
Marvels", the book through which I discovered this work and was totally blown away by its hyper-realistic quality and how well it worked on the comic book format.
Over 15 years after the "Marvels" debut, his work has been on dozens of book covers and pages on several publishers including
DC,
Marvel,
Warner,
Dynamite and
Wizard.
www.alexrossart.com