Steve Ditko

Steve Ditko (born 2 November 1927 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania) is a renowned comic book artist and writer best known as the co-creator of Spider-Man.

Quotes

Excerpt from Comic Fan #2, Summer 1965, Ditko interview conducted by mail with Gary Martin; punctuation verbatim http://www.ditko.comics.org/ditko/artist/arcomicf.html:

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        GARY - Who originated Spiderman?

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        STEVE - Stan Lee thought the name up. I did costume, web gimmick on wrist & spider signal.

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        GARY - Would you enjoy continuing on him?

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        STEVE - If nothing better comes along.

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Mark Evanier, Jack Kirby Collector: http://www.neilalien.com/ "In 1970 when Steve Sherman and I met Steve Ditko, he asked us about the new Kirby books that were then about to debut at DC. When we told him Colletta was handling the inking, he winced and said that he would probably not look at the comics. Back when he was working for Marvel, Ditko said he'd pick up the latest issues in the office and always check the credits before taking the comics home. If he found Colletta's name ? especially as Kirby's embellisher ? he would make a point of putting the comic back, or even in a wastebasket. And he'd make sure Stan saw what he was doing and knew the reason why."

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Excerpt from Voice of Comicdom #4, April 1965, Ditko letter-to-the-editor commenting on the fanzine's reader-poll to determine which "Best Liked" fan strips would continue to be published; punctuation verbatim http://www.ditko.comics.org/ditko/artist/arvoc4le.html: "It seems a shame, since comics themselves have so little variety of stories and styles that you would deliberately restrict your own creative efforts to professional comics shallow range. What is 'Best Liked' by most readers is what they are most familiar in seeing and any policy based on readers likes has to end up with a lot of look-a-like strips. You have a great opportunity to show everyone a whole new range of ideas, unlimited types of stories and styles---why FLUB it!"

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