Fantagraphics Books is publishing Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell to debut at the MoCCA Comics Art Festival on 7 June 2008. Fantagraphics calls it “the first critical retrospective of Steve Ditko, the co-creator and original artist of the Amazing Spider-Man.”
Bell will be at the Festival to sign copies and give a slide presentation of Ditko’s work. His Ditko web site, at www.ditko.comics.org, will list upcoming appearances.
The book “will explode many of the myths of Ditko’s career, as well as present reams of rare and unpublished Ditko artwork. All at once, the book functions as a biography of the artist, and an examination of his work (spotlighting over 300 images) with commentary on what makes Ditko one of history’s greatest sequential storytellers from the author and some of comics most skilled and articulate comic creators.”
Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell will be a 220-page, 9″ x 12″ hardcover listing for $39.99. ISBN: 978-1-56097-921-0.