Before Steve Ditko made his name as the co-creator of Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, he had a reputation as a versatile cartoonist–in science fiction and horror comics, as well as a handful of others–who could work incredibly quickly. He had to: his main client in the late ’50s was Charlton Comics, which paid the princely [...]
One of the coolest-looking superhero projects of this spring is Spider-Man: Fever, a three-issue miniseries written and drawn by Brendan McCarthy, the psychedelic mastermind behind Swimini Purpose and Rogan Gosh. It’s a tribute to Steve Ditko’s ’60s-era Day-Glo weirdness, co-starring another one of Ditko’s visual creations, Dr. Strange. The first issue doesn’t come out until [...]
