Thank you, sir. You will be missed.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat- ... 90-1125489

Major loss.

Linda, please keep Mark’s thread and delete this one.

Sad, sad news. Spider-Man is one of my favorite characters.

I didn't appreciate his artwork when I first discovered the character at 8 years old (I thought his drawing looked weird that Peter looked scrawny compared to Romita and Ross Andru), but as I got older, I could see how great it was.

Steve would not want you guys to fight.

RIP. A brilliant man, maybe one of the most brilliant comics artists that ever lived.

Oh no.

R.I.P.

Rest well, Sturdy Steve. Your drawings and stories brought me so much pleasure for so very long. Yes, I even learned some things from reading them.

Steve Ditko was the only comic creator whose work I had followed loyally all the way from childhood through today. People always said that he was an acquired taste, but I loved the art from the moment I saw it. I never thought it was weird or difficult, I thought it was lovely and delightful. There were other artists and writers whose work I enjoyed, but for Ditko I would follow to unfamiliar characters, to other publishers ... he never wavered, never disappointed, not for the 50-plus years that I read him or the 60-plus years that he was producing work.

I guess my comic book collection is finally, officially closed. New things to read, but nothing new to keep. Not anymore.

Well… damn. And this coming right after some dumb shit spread the rumor of his false death recently.

This is a tough one. Ditko was unique and the best. I just loved his work and is/was a major influence in my work, even if you don't always see it. RIP.

Steve is very correct.

No one drew a better Spider-Man,no one drew a better Dr. Strange,no one drew a better comic book.

RIP

Steve Ditko was my favorite comic-book artist, even more so than Carl Barks.

I wonder if it was related. He’s been dead for a few days, I think.

No “maybe” about it — as an overall comics creator, definitely top five.

Perfectly stated

Very sad. RIP

Could be, i suppose, but i thought it had been debunked.
But it does seem like Ditko has been dead for a long time, since June 27th. His body was found on the 29th.
But I think the false rumor was two weeks ago, and he's been dead for 10 days it appears.

Hmmm… I went back and checked, and I first saw that rumor posted on the Masterworks board on June 30th.

Later in the thread, they linked to https://en.mediamass.net/people/steve-d ... hhoax.html
and in that article, supposedly Ditko's reps claimed that he wasn't dead on July 6th.

I guess MediaMass.net is a known fake news generated site. So, strange as it may seem, the fake news
was apparently that Ditko wasn't dead when he was.

Very sad. As a kid, I remember being absolutely fascinated by the costumes his characters wore. I loved it when he would have the character explain the functions of the costume.

RIP