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Remembering The Creator of Marvel's Doctor Strange, Steve Ditko (hollywoodreporter.com)
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As Marvel publicizes its Doctor Strange movie, "there's one key figure you won't be hearing from: the person who created the Sorcerer Supreme." Steve Ditko (who also co-created Spider-Man with Stan Lee in 1962) introduced Doctor Strange in 1963, remembers The Hollywood Reporter, then abruptly left Marvel in 1966 to work for other publishers. "He would more or less be done with mainstream comics by the 1970s, though he would pop up from time to time (he co-created Squirrel Girl for Marvel in the 1990s)."
Ditko was recently involved in a Kickstarter campaign to honor the anniversaries of famous comics (in which 152 backers ultimately pledged $5,462). He celebrated his 89th birthday this week, but "He is private and has intentionally stayed out of the spotlight like J.D. Salinger," says the director of Doctor Strange, adding "I hope he goes to see the movie wherever he is, because I think we paid homage to his work."
The article includes fond memories of working with Ditko from both Jim Starlin and Stan Lee, who also praised his work in a book called The Art of Steve Ditko. "All I had to do was give Steve a one-line description of the plot and he'd be off and running. He'd take those skeleton outlines I had given him and turn them into classic little works of art that ended up being far cooler than I had any right to expect."
Ditko was recently involved in a Kickstarter campaign to honor the anniversaries of famous comics (in which 152 backers ultimately pledged $5,462). He celebrated his 89th birthday this week, but "He is private and has intentionally stayed out of the spotlight like J.D. Salinger," says the director of Doctor Strange, adding "I hope he goes to see the movie wherever he is, because I think we paid homage to his work."
The article includes fond memories of working with Ditko from both Jim Starlin and Stan Lee, who also praised his work in a book called The Art of Steve Ditko. "All I had to do was give Steve a one-line description of the plot and he'd be off and running. He'd take those skeleton outlines I had given him and turn them into classic little works of art that ended up being far cooler than I had any right to expect."
The fact that so many of these guys from the early days of Marvel are still alive is amazing, really. I doubt Stan Lee or Ditko could have imagined that they would still be kicking around and being venerated over 50 years after their seminal works.
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I had to read the ENTIRE (gasp) summary to make sure that he hadn't passed away, come on!
"He is private and has intentionally stayed out of the spotlight like J.D. Salinger"
his is ok, but he is not salinger. fact that there is a new derivative movie based on characters he "created" (if that is the word, given comparative lateness of his characters to a genre, and which he did nothing to expand beyond its limitations).
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Squirrel Girl - possibly the finest artwork ever!
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Ditko and Kirby did most of the job while Lee collected the money and the fame. He didn't support them, the two men he owes most of his prestige.
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People often talk about Ditkos work in the past tense paying homage to his best remembered creations. However the fact is that over the last decade Ditko has been at his most prolific. His is currently turning out 32 page comics at the rate of about 4-5 a year. He publishes them with assistance from his long term friend Robin Snyder. Not only that but over the last years he has moved to funding these through kickstarter which makes them easy to purchase. His line work is much simpler than it used to be, and he has taken over his own dialogue which is an acquired taste, but his visually story telling is arguably better than ever.
See this link for a complete list:
http://ditko.blogspot.co.uk/p/ditko-book-in-print.html
See subject: Perhaps not his earliest but from SpiderMan #1 to around the time John Romita took over artwork (good stuff too circa around the time he took on KingPin or shortly before & after).
There was a "certain something" about the spidey tales I liked - an "atmosphere" (perhaps his struggles in highschool before collegiate academia & working for J. Jonah Jameson @ the Bugle) that wasn't ever matched.
His Dr. Strange tales though? WoW!!!
From the 1st issue in Strange Tales up until he took on Dormammu in the "dark dimension" & where he meets Clea was really truly great stuff... we've seen the start of that from the film & it was pretty close to 100% 'authentic' (some alterations like Mordo for example aren't exact & how he took on Dormammu was exact either, no Clea or the "mindless ones" but still good).
See - to be honest? I never considered Steve Ditko's artwork great but it somehow lent to the wild stories of those early adventures really, Really, REALLY well! They were SO different vs. other marvel titles & that is what made them so good. Unique.
The artwork @ marvel got progressively better @ Marvel (not really the artists but the GREAT inker Joe Sinnott imo was a HUGE difference for them there - he made ANY artist MUCH better (even Jack Kirby or George Perez))
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