SKETCHBOOKS AND MORE...

To finish our book section, we are going to deal now with art books and sketchbooks. Although they're formatted to look like comic books or as magazines they are still a special kind of book. So here they are:

BATTLE OF THE PLANETS ART BOOK: This book contains art from the BOTP series, including covers and posters. It's a great book for all those collectors of the art of Alex Ross that wouldn't want to track down all those back issues. The cover (left) and back cover (right) are new pieces of art, made exclusively for this book that were later used elsewhere. Not included in this book is the new art for the Gatchaman DVDs.



UPPER DECK SKETCHBOOK: I consider this book the first official sketchbook Alex Ross did (not counting the ones that came out with the Earth X series). It came out at a convention, it's limited to 5000 issues and everything is printed in heavy stock paper. It contains drawings of a few pieces Alex did for Upper Deck such as the Spider-Man/Spider-Woman litho and the box art for the Marvel "Versus" System trading cards.


THE FLASH GORDON ACTION FIGURES SKETCHBOOK: Also available only at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con, this mini-sketchbook came with a special edition figure of the Flash Gordon character wearing his white t-shirt with the name "Flash" on it. This limited edition figure and sketchbook combo was a joint effort between Bif Bang Pow!, the company that makes the figures and the retailer Entertainment Earth who along with Alex Ross made this "behind the scenes" book available at the Con as a publicity stunt to present the soon-to-be-released series 2 of these figures that feature Prince Barin, the evil Klytus and the lovely Dale Arden.




IN MY COLLECTION: I'm proud to say that all of these books are part of it.