{"id":1720,"date":"2009-07-15T15:11:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T19:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2012-02-04T18:53:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T23:53:17","slug":"shade-the-changing-man-pinup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"Shade The Changing Man Pinup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a pinup of Rac Shade, the main character from Steve Ditko’s DC series Shade the Changing Man<\/em>.\u00a0 I did this as a “thank you” to send to the folks at Hot Sauce Productions who were kind enough to let us screen the recent Jonathan Ross documentary, In Search of Steve Ditko<\/em>, at Heroes Con ’09.\u00a0 Shade’s color scheme is pretty simple, so I whipped up a quick color version as well:<\/p>\n

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At some point, I want to do an in-depth post about the whole Shade the Changing Man<\/em> series, which I think is Ditko’s last great work-for-hire work.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I neglected to spend any time at Heroes rummaging through the 50 cent bins looking for issues seven and eight which I still lack–so, alas my Shade<\/em> post will have to wait.\u00a0 I did though look through the books I have before drawing this pinup and I was really struck by issue four in particular, which contains some of Ditko’s greatest bizarre, grotesque and abstract imagery.\u00a0 Some of this stuff makes his Dr. Strange<\/em> work look tame by comparison.\u00a0 Here’s a page from issue four, for example:<\/p>\n

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Here’s a pinup of Rac Shade, the main character from Steve Ditko’s DC series Shade the Changing Man.\u00a0 I did this as a “thank you” to send to the folks at Hot Sauce Productions who were kind enough to let us screen the recent Jonathan Ross documentary, In Search of Steve Ditko, at Heroes Con … <\/p>\n

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