The large format allows for a close reading of all the detail that Quietly puts into his pages and there are a lot of story points buried in the artwork that are now more visible, almost making this feel like a new book. The sewn binding allows the book to open relatively flat, allowing the double page spreads to look their best and ensuring that Frank Quitely’s artwork is displayed to its best advantage on excellent paper. Underneath the slipcase, the cover of the hardback itself is the famously brilliant image of Superman sitting casually among the clouds over Metropolis.
The back cover shows the splash page image of Superman kissing a super-powered Lois Lane on the moon.
The book jacket cover is a text-free version of the flying Superman seen on the standard collection. The slipcase is a dramatically large, cropped image of Superman’s face, taken from the 10th issue cover where Superman gazes down at a basketball-sized Earth. Absolute All Star Superman presents this award-winning work by Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly in the best possible way it could be seen. He lives in Glasgow with his wife and three children.DC Comics Absolute Editions are huge hardcover, slipcased volumes twice the size of a standard comic book. He is also a sought-after covers artist, having drawn for Negative Burn, Judge Dredd Megazine, Classic 2000 AD, Jonah Hex, Books of Magick: Life During Wartime, Bite Club, American Virgin and All-Star Batman. For Marvel Comics, he's worked on New X-Men with frequent collaborator Grant Morrison. Some of his most notable work has been for DC Comics/Vertigo, including Flex Mentallo, Batman: The Scottish Connection, The Kingdom: Offspring, JLA: Earth 2, The Invisibles, Transmetropolitan, The Authority, The Sandman: Endless Nights, WE3, All-Star Superman and Batman & Robin. Grant has also written best-selling runs on JLA, Seven Soldiers of Victory, and New X-Men, and helped to reinvent the DC Universe in The Multiversity, All Star Superman, 52, Batman, Batman & Robin and Batman, Inc.įrank Quitely was born in Glasgow in 1968.
Writer Grant Morrison is known for his innovative work on comics from the graphic novel Arkham Asylum to acclaimed runs on Animal Man and Doom Patrol, as well as his subversive creator-owned titles such as The Invisibles, Seaguy, and WE3.
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