In Search Of... Steve Ditko

[thebitterguy]

Some French guy* talks about Steve Ditko. Interesting article. This is part 1, the remaining 6 are also on YouTube.

papajoemambo told me about it on Thursday, and here it is.

*Joke. JOKE!

Comments

[lynne-h.livejournal.com]

Yep, BBC4 are doing a whole series on comics and related stuff. The Ditko documetary was very interesting and Wossy is at his least irritating when he's discussing his obsessions (film and comics). Otherwise I can't bear to watch the man.

Comics Britannia is the main series, but there's also been stuff on The Broons, Oor Wullie, Moebius and Modesty Blaise. Who knows what else we'll see...

[thebitterguy]

Cool. I should look up some more in the series, it sounds Kind of neat.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

My introduction to Ditko was in one of those Marvel "Jumbo size" albums. And it wasn't spiderman. It wasn't even a character that's listed on his wikipedia page. It was probably just a one-off to fill out space in the album. The story was a sort of Batman-y type of deal, I think about a man who went off into the mysterious east in order to learn the mysteries that would make him a supah-hero. In the end, I think the guy had weird sort of shadow/darkness powers and was basically a skulker character.

I just remember thing the art was really cool.

That's my earliest Ditko memory; if there's a Kirby/Ditko dichotomy like there's a cats/dogs dichotomy, then I guess I'm more of a Ditko guy than a Kirby guy.

[thebitterguy]

Are you sure it was a Marvel character? Because it kind of sounds like the Question.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Might have been in DC jumbo album (did they do them too?), but it don't think it was the Question. I think the character became a devotee/avatar of Kali or Siva or something, and might have been called The Scarab? Or something like that?

I'm pretty certain it wasn't the Question -- but the memory's hazy... perhaps it was after all...