BBC - Jonathan Ross - In Search of Steve Ditko, part 1 of 7

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[slyther2]

Alan Moore's awesome but I can't help but think he's a wee bit ovverated

[TheSteveDitko]

@slyther2 true

[jcbs]

Steve Ditko is a great artist but he will never be a co-creator of Spider-Man.

He is only the artist that was commissioned, sanctioned and hired by the creator to draw the character.

[TheSteveDitko]

@jcbs true

[flugel76]

Selfish? He didn't ask for fans to obsess over him, nor did he ask for this documentary to be made. I'm sure he's flattered by this attention in his own way, but you can't call someone who doesn't want to be bothered "selfish". Not all artists are narcisistic attention-seekers, you know.

[TheSteveDitko]

yeah true

[nailbiter]

American TV is too stupid to put on anything as cool as this show. thank you BBC / Jonathan Ross! love Ditko.

[man13717]

thanks for posting this , excellent

[nobovrilformethanks]

@TheSteveDitko

you must be the least argumentative person on youtube.

[MrLunitunz]

I love Ditko's artwork. He did stuff with Spider-Man himself that wouldn't be seen again until McFarlane stepped on the book, he made him quirky and Spider-like and, from the side at least, he gave Spider-Man those big Spider-eyes. He drew ugly people and made Peter Parker look like an average guy. I love Romita's artwork as well, and given how he drew Gwen, I don't think Ditko could've drawn Mary Jane as beautiful as Romita, but Romita empahasised the Man, Ditko emphasised the Spider.

[MrLunitunz]

@slyther2 Depends on what you mean by 'overrated'. Personally I feel that the words 'overrated' and 'underrated' are both over-used and misapplied.

Alan Moore did bring a great sense of maturity to American comic books, but he probably took his influences from novels and the movies, and according to Alan Grant, who was talking about Frank Miller when he said this, 'British comics have been doing it for years'.

Moore's still an intelligent, albeit crazy, guy though.

[detrius82]

@slyther2 My take on Alan Moore. He's an amazing talent when he's doing his own thing, but when he's writting for characters he didn't create, he tends to screw things up. As amazing as "The Killing Joke" is, he clearly didn't understand the Batman character enough, because at the begining of the story it seems as if Batman is pleading with the Joker that they need to stop their back and forth before one of them ends up dead. Then at the end (after all Joker did) he laughs at a lame joke.

[darkmike333]

I coulda swore Kirby designed Spidey's costume? Or was it that he just drew Amazing Fantasy #15's cover?

[hanshotfirst1138]

@ToruKun1

[TaskMaster619]

This documentary introduced me to Watchmen. Love Jonothan Ross forever for doing that!

[mazniq]

@jcbs boo to your comment, mate. How is Steve not a co-creator when he provides the sequantial art!?! Also haven't you heard of the "Marvel Method" where Stan Lee gives brief sypnosis of the story for the issue to the designated artist and that artist have to build the plot and fill in the details on his own? So Spider-man owns much of its appeal to Steve Ditko because Ditko was the main visionary of what was going on in the books! Not to mention Ditko made the design of the costume!!