Amazing Spider-Man artist Ryan Ottley has announced his departure from the title, as well as teased a new Marvel Comics project he currently has in the works.
"I decided to jump off of Amazing Spider-Man," Ottley announced in a thread on Twitter, revealing that the recently released Amazing Spider-Man #850 (#49) will serve as his last issue on the book. "It just comes down to me simply wanting to work on other projects."
Ottley delved a bit into his history with the title. "Amazing Spider-Man was my first comic I ever bought as a kid, it was what I thought was the best superhero ever made. So I always wanted to fulfill that fantasy to be the ASM artist one day," he wrote. "And now with around two years on Amazing Spider-Man and 20 issues under my belt, I feel like I've gotten my fill and want to have other projects to work on, other characters I'd like to play with."
The artist thanked his Amazing Spider-Man collaborators Nick Spencer, Cliff Rathburn, Nathan Fairbairn and Laura Martin, as well as editors Nick Lowe and Kathleen Wisneski. Ottley also teased that he "will be back at Marvel soon on a new project [he's] very excited about, and is "[c]urrently doing pre-production designs."
Ottley joined writer Spencer in 2018 for Marvel's relaunch of Amazing Spider-Man, penciling Free Comic Book Day Vol 2018 Amazing Spider-Man, followed by Amazing Spider-Man #1-5, #11-13, #16, #23-25, #30-31, #37, #41-43 and, finally, #49 (#850 LGY).
Written by Nick Spencer, Tradd Moore, Kurt Busiek and Saladin Ahmed and illustrated by Ryan Ottley, Humberto Ramos, Mark Bagley, Moore and Chris Bachalo, Amazing Spider-Man #850 (#49) is on sale now from Marvel Comics.
Source: Twitter\@RyanOttley