Sending my psychic condolences up the I-5 to Bellingham.
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Saturday, 7 July 2018 02:00 (five years ago) link
RIP to a truly gifted lunatic
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 7 July 2018 02:02 (five years ago) link
reading the obit now and
Ditko maintained a Manhattan studio until his death, where he continued to write and draw, though how much, and what unpublished material remains, is unknown.
a) why not ask Snyder, his publisher and only trusted collaborator of the last three decades, rather than include this vagueness
b) "how much" can be pretty easily estimated by actually adding up his output. it's very clear that he thought what he published was what was fit to publish, and he's generally been putting out around 100pp a year (!) since getting really busy again this decade.
Comic book creator Graig Weich of [...]
"He wasn't 90. He seemed like a young, cool artist who happened to have an aged body," Weich tells THR. Weich recalls asking Ditko about his relationship with Lee, and says the artist looked down and told him, "We're peaceful."
wtf at using a repugnant scam merchant as your source!!? unchecked and without caveat!
also eeesh, Ditko's latest Kickstarter may have finished the day he died. that's some 'Schulz dying the day his final Sunday was shipping' timing
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Saturday, 7 July 2018 02:16 (five years ago) link
^ belay that, I misread the "two days ago" bit
Graig is promoting his own new comic in a selfie-stick-shot youtube video titled "STEVE DITKO FOUND DEAD AT 90 - CO-CREATOR OF SPIDER-MAN & DOCTOR STRANGE IN NYC Dies NOT STAN LEE"
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Saturday, 7 July 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link
May we all have “NOT STAN LEE” on our gravestones
― devops mom (silby), Saturday, 7 July 2018 02:31 (five years ago) link
I think he had a bigger impact on me than any other artist of any kind. Meant a massive amount to me.
I'm curious about what will happen to all his unseen art in his studio, I assume it'll never be seen, I though he might have burned or shredded the stuff already because he really didn't want people seeing it, some said there was unseen Dr Strange stuff that were like an unabridged version of the ending he did to his run. Still keeping my fingers crossed that he changed his mind and will let people show it all.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 7 July 2018 02:50 (five years ago) link
I thought that Graig guy is the one who broke the news?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 7 July 2018 02:53 (five years ago) link
That doesn't mean you take his reportage of other peoples' words at face value, after the last 20 years of his reportage.
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Saturday, 7 July 2018 03:10 (five years ago) link
(and the disgusting motivation behind it! is it likely that Snyder had been notified by the NYPD, and knew that Ditko wouldn't want the news publicised?)
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Saturday, 7 July 2018 03:17 (five years ago) link
Mike Dean obit at TCJ.
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Saturday, 7 July 2018 03:19 (five years ago) link
aww rip steveone of the all-time greats both in artistic achievement and total swivel-eyed lunacy
― Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 7 July 2018 08:16 (five years ago) link
after the last 20 years of his reportage.
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Saturday, July 7, 2018 4:10 AM
Is he that well known? I never heard of him until now.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 7 July 2018 08:38 (five years ago) link
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iH7JIpCRKg4/V1Qs3Iv3CwI/AAAAAAAAQQM/uh6EeC4CopM_AjM6g49UUj4XnKfH-MCOgCLcB/s1600/ditko_spiderman_creation.jpg
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Saturday, 7 July 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
<3
― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 7 July 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
I thought you meant Weich's reportage.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 7 July 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
I really liked this Jeet Heer thread about Ditko and Kirby, also the Gail Simone thread he links to
1. This is a good tweet in a good thread & I want to expand on this point. Kirby & Kirby both had styles that were curiously at odds with their politics. https://t.co/5kJacKlCwB— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 7, 2018
― soref, Saturday, 7 July 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
xpost: I did.
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Saturday, 7 July 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
yeah, good stuff - lot to chew on there
― Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 7 July 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
I think sometime during the mid-60s Ditko made his characters bolder and more handsome and it was good and different but perhaps not quite as compelling as the earlier look. But there's something different and special about many periods of his work, at least up til the mid 70s when there is a noticeable decline.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 7 July 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link