Ditko Unleashed!

by Steve Ditko (Writer, Artist)

Steve Ditko's astounding career is presented here from the early 1950s to the present. Examples of his work for Charlton, Warren, Marvel and DC are shown, both as printed pages and scans from Ditko's beautiful original art!
This is a Museum catalogue that will accompany a massive exhibition of this hugely influential artists work (Ditko co-created Spider-Man and Dr. Strange) in Palma de Mallorca Spain in the Fall of 2016.

Genres: Comics, Theory, Art

368 pages, Hardcover

First published December 20, 2016

About the author

Stephen J. "Steve" Ditko was an American comic book artist and writer best known as the co-creator of the Marvel Comics heroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.

He was inducted into the comics industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990, and into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994.

Reviews

[Lyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Let’s be honest, this is sort of like a coffee table book. It’s big, heavy, lots of pictures, and it’s something you don’t so much read from cover to cover as you browse through the pages and read snippets here and there.

We do get to explore the wonderful artistic career of one of the greats in comic book writing. Ditko is on a very short list of greatest in that genre and this was fun to learn more about his extraordinary career.

[PJ Ebbrell · Rating 5 out of 5]

I finished this book and now regret not going to Palma to see the exhibition. There were good reasons for not going, but there is only one Steve Dikto and this book reviews his lifetime works. There is a lot I was unaware of, mainly his Charlton ghost stories and the more interdependent work. There is a fantastic piece of Shade the Changing Man; a comic I looked for on the newsstands in Bolton and Manchester. This book is a must for any comics fan.

[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Best Book on any cartoonist. Every art book should follow this! Highly recommended.