Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross (born January 22, 1970) is an American comic book painter, illustrator and plotter, acclaimed for the photorealism of his work. Ross is known for his love of the vintage looks of classic characters and the more mythic elements of the superheroes.
From the late 1990s, Ross has done much work for the industry’s two largest and most historically important publishing houses, Marvel and DC Comics, but Ross is also the co-creator of Astro City, an original series that explores superhero mythology.
Although he is a prominent figure for both DC and Marvel, he is better known as a DC artist, as much of his work (such as Kingdom Come) was created for DC. Due to the time and effort required to render his complex paintings, he is often hired to craft covers rather than interiors. Almost all of his Marvel work since 1994 has been as a plotter or cover artist.
Alex Ross (born 1968) has been the music critic of The New Yorker magazine since 1996.
Ross is a 1986 graduate of St. Albans School and a 1990 graduate of Harvard University, where he studied under composer Peter Lieberson and was a classical music DJ for the college radio station.
His first book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, a cultural history of music since 1900, was recently released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
His work has also appeared in The New Republic, Slate, the London Review of Books, Lingua Franca, and Feed. From 1992 to 1996 he was a music critic at the New York Times. He has been featured in Best American Essays, Da Capo Best Music Writing, and Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader.
He has received two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for music criticism and a Holtzbrinck fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin.
Alex Ross was a stone mason, politician and cabinet minister from Alberta, Canada.
Alex was first elected in the 1917 Alberta election defeating Conservative Thomas Tweedie. He was elected as a Labor member to the assembly.
In the 1921 Alberta election after Calgary Centre was abolished he ran in the reconstituted Calgary riding and won the top spot in a 5 member block vote. In that election the United Farmers of Alberta defeated the Liberals in the rural part of the province, and formed the government. The United Farmers did not run any candidates in Calgary and Ross was asked to serve as Minister of Public Works despite being a member of the opposition.
Ross was acclaimed in a ministerial by-election on December 9, 1921.
In 1922 Alex Ross helped found the Canadian Labor Party and served on its executive with other prominent labor politicians of the era, such as Elmer Ernest Roper and Alf Farmilo.
