Superheroes: The Heroic Visions of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell

by Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo

Book Overview

Superheroes is a collection of awe-inspiring original artwork created by husband and wife team Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell. Along with using a classic sense of style to create and master sensuous... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560253398
• ISBN13: 9781560253396
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.9" x 11.7"

Customer Reviews

Why so many small images?

With paintings of such high quality it's really a shame to see so many small and half-page images. This could easily have been a 5 star art book. Anyway, for any comic book fan it's pretty much indispensable. SPECIFICS: Page Count: 160 Number of images: 172 Small images: 39 Half page images: 38 Full page images: 88 2-page spreads: 7 BW images: 0 TEXT: 1 page - General introduction 7 pages - Chapter introductions Comments on the paintings and some characters ART: 42 images: 5 stars 81 images: 4 stars 45 images: 3 stars 4 images: 2 stars 0 images: 1 star Overall: 4 stars

dems r sum peerty pictures

90% of Julie's work is stunning. 60% of Boris's work is stunning. By far, Julie is the better artist. Turn to any page and if there is a beautiful picture on it, chances are Julie did it. If the picture looks odd like the person's face or body being deformed, chances are Boris did it. They both have their share of throw away paintings. Some of them are down right terrible. But when they get it right it really is a feast for the eyes. One downfall for this book is the information on the comic characters. Why does it say Storm has gray skin? Like time I checked she was African American and they don't have gray skin. There are a ton of mistakes on the characters but it doesn't really matter since the paintings are why you're buying the book.

Beautiful original comic art.

I didn't buy this book for the big names of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell. I bought this book because of the art of the comic book characters. I have been extremely pleased with my purchase. This book is a collection of some of the most breathtaking art images of comic book characters. Most of the pictures are of Vallejo and Bell's work on Marvel and DC's masterpiece trading card collections. There are also some miscellaneous art pieces added, but these are also of the comic character nature. Since the pictures are much larger, you can appreciate the detail much better than anything you'd see on a little trading card. The book is bound well, with thick high gloss pages. Most of the pictures are accompanied with a brief description by Vallejo or Bell. The book is also split into chapters to try and give a logical order to the collection.Titans is a must for any comic book enthusiast as the art brings much more life to the characters. I would imagine that this would be a good book for any Vallejo or Bell fan as well. However, I have not seen much of their work outside of comic paintings. So, I cannot speak much on the comparative aspects here.

Liked Julie, not so struck on Boris

The artwork, featured on a very popular series of Marvel trading cards, is powerful and brings a certain amount of realism to our favourite comic book heroes. The problem is, some heroes benefit from a more realistic look, while stylised characters such as the Hulk, tend to look a bit silly in such glorified detail. I tended to prefer Julie's style, more in proportion and more recognisable. The text describes Boris and Julie's relationship and their approach to their art, no doubt of interest to the budding artist but a bit dull for the average reader. However, all in all a powerful and exciting set of super hero artworks.

Different touch!

Boris and Julie have sucessfully give the superheros a different touch, unlike what we see in the Mavel style. A great book with very expressive in the style as it was drawn. A huge break through from the usual Boris's and Julie's kind of work. A must collect for X-man collectors.