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Thursday, November 02, 2006
Happy Birthday Steve Ditko!
It was Ditko's art that taught me to appreciate weirdness. Work that was idiosyncratic and strange but still crafted with skill and internally consistent. I love the psychedelic landscapes of the Dr. Strange stories, the angst of Spider-Man and the truly strange combination of the two in the underrated Shade the Changing Man title from DC. I even love the political stuff like Mr. A and the The Question. It's not that I agree with it I just get a kick out of the man's talent at art meeting his intensely held political convictions. It feels like the words and images are going to leap of the page in anger. That's just fun comic book reading.
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Happy Birthday Mr. Ditko!
Btw Ian, can you recommend any Shade collections/TPBs currently in print?
# posted by : 2:23 PM
The only Shade trade is the the one collecting the first few issues of the Peter Milligan Vertigo run. It's good but totally different than the Shade stuff. You can find the Ditko Shade pretty cheap in back issues. That's what I did. There's also the ninth issue in Cancelled Comics Cavalcade but that's a bit harder to find.
# posted by Ian : 11:21 PM
thanks for your reply. For now I settled for scanned versions (where I live, there aren't any shops that sell back issues that old) of the series and I even found #9 in b&w sketches. Bless the comics file sharing community.
# posted by : 3:42 PM
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