Steve Ditko

Jonathon Ross has an article in today’s Guardian talking about his passion for the work of comic-book artist Steve Ditko. It’s also by way of an introduction to a programme that Ross has made on Ditko that will be broadcast on BBC Four this coming Sunday.

 

I remember the name Steve Ditko from my youth. I bought comics starting in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and, like Ross, adored the style of Ditko’s art. It’s funny, but I don’t recall specifically buying any Spider-Man comics (the work for which Ditko is most famous). I may well have grown out of comics by that time. I think I must have been avidly consuming comics such as Strange Tales and Amazing Adventures.