Parry wrote:
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> elag <elag@cloud9.net> wrote in message news:<3F0A33D4.C7609A0B@cloud9.net>...
> [snip movies, on to comic book]
> > > Jack Kirby's fine, but I've always been more of a Ditko man.
> >
> > Yeah, I don't know much about Ditko's personal life, but he always did
> > give the impression of a very strange bug. I always preferred his
> > spindly Spidey to the later musclebound version. The weird netherworlds
> > of Doc Strange were also a favorite of mine.
> >
> > Hey, here's a bio:
> >
> > http://www.ditko.comics.org/ditko/artist/artist.html
>
> Thanks for the link. Ditko's comics are among the strangest, if only
> for the way his panels tear up space and hammer your optic nerve.
Even Stan Lee's prose was of a piece. I've read that sometimes Ditko
would hand Lee a finished story and Lee would write dialogue to fit the panels!
"But no sooner does the man of mystery attain his mortal body, then he
finds himself in the grip of a spell so powerful he dares not even think
its name!"
> Then there was his conservative philosphy which he milked in his
> independent comics.
I must admit that I never suspected him of "objectivism" back when I
read a lot of his stuff. I'll have to try rereading some of it w/ that
in mind.
BTW, here's a rare photo of the man himself:
http://heroes.chez.tiscali.fr/e-herrev/images/ditkopic.jpg
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