Happy Birthday to one of the greatest artists that Spidey has ever had...
Happy Birthday to one of the greatest artists that Spidey has ever had...
Last edited by K7P5V; 11-02-2020 at 01:14 PM. Reason: Corrected Grammatical Errors.
It's Ditko Day! Celebrating The Greatest Comic Artist
CBH's Alex Grand travels to Johnstown, PA for the 2021 Ditko Comic Convention
hosted by the Bottleworks Ethnic Art Center and the Ditko Family. Steve Ditko,
his Bottleworks art exhibit and the Ditko convention is discussed here with
Ditkoverse coordinator and nephew, Mark Ditko as well as comics editor and
writer Carl Potts, writer-artist Javier Hernandez, visual lecturist Arlen Schumer and
former senior VP at MGM David Armstrong. Each one shares an aspect or anecdote
about Steve Ditko that most people don't know about. Where do Ditko hands come from?
Happy Birthday to the great Steve Ditko!
Happy Birthday to Stephen John Ditko, the true creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, the artist behind those great Warren horror comics with Archie Goodwin, and a character designer behind the likes of The Question, Blue Beetle/Ted Kord, Captain Atom, Hawk and Dove, The Creeper, Speedball, Squirrel Girl. Watchmen is simultaneously a homage and a deconstruction to the man, the myth, the legend with Dave Gibbons borrowing from his pioneering use of the 9-Panel Grid and real NYC backgrounds and his great eye for character design and Alan Moore engaging in his respectful but critical look at Ditko's objectivism and right-wing glorification of vigilantism.
I wrote about Ditko and explored his life and his involvement with Spider-Man multiple times this year, and it was a privilege to get into the nuts and bolts of the Lee-Ditko run, to put it under the hood and going panel-by-panel.
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There's a lot of new stuff and ideas in those comics people haven't picked up or written about. Like Ditko inserting homages to Classical Painting casually in this panel, there might be others but it's clear that Ditko had ideas and a sense of ambition. And people need to study his works more, because only about 2-3% of what's in those comics have been written or discussed about imo.