Artist Alex Ries is well known for his work on Subnautica: Below Zero, and for helping craft the creatures of Hollow Earth in Godzilla X Kong: The New Kingdom, among many other projects. Now, the many worlds of Ries will be collected by Spike Trotman’s Iron Circus Comics as Other Worlds: The Art Of Alex Ries, a new art book hitting Kickstarter very soon. Not only does Comic Book Club have an exclusive look inside, but we’ve also got commentary on the pages from Ries.
The 300+ page hardcover will contain both personal and professional artwork from Ries, as well as “forewords by Jamie Beswarick and Greg Broadmore and extensive commentary from the artist himself,” per PR provided to Comic Book Club.
“This book is the culmination of decades of work, passing through traditional illustration, concept art and even sculpture,” said Alex Ries via press release. “I have filled it with works that have marked important creative moments not just in my professional but personal life. This is a culmination of my life as a creative person thus far that I will be able to actually hold, and the kind of book I always loved as a child: creatures, machines, and life from other worlds.”
Added Trotman, “With a unique imagination, a timeless sense of wonder, and a detailed grounding in reality that gives it all life, Ries’s creatures and worlds light a lasting spark within the viewer.”
You can check out the pages and commentary below, just click the images for larger, more glorious versions. You can sign up for Kickstarter now to be notified when it goes live.
“Contact is perhaps one of my most famous artworks at the time of writing and, entirely by accident, became an online meme template! The artwork itself depicts a titanic ‘metahuman’ looking down at two curious birrin; a mysterious element of birrin lore I have been developing over the years. The meme template it birthed, called ‘Alien God Looks Down at Lower Beings’, was a source of amusement. I considered it flattering to become even a small part of online culture and, although the image was usually posted unsourced, it certainly didn’t cost me any followers. Indeed, I was able to find a new audience via other followers helpfully tagging my account whenever variants were posted. The artwork remains one of my most popular. I look forward to telling further stories that include these strange beings, of terrible power…”
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