Steve Ditko
Reviews
Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity
University Press of Mississippi
Articles
How Ayn Rand Influenced Comic Books
Echoes of the infamous author in the superhero comic book behemoths of the 1980s – satirized in Watchmen, and domesticated in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
Ditko’s Code: “A World of His Own”
Helen takes a fresh look at Steve Ditko’s creativity under the content restrictions of the 1950s: a force that burned brighter than the comics code, by embodying the code’s ideology with a perfection the censors couldn’t match.
“…Into Some Loathsome Pit!” Notes on True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
James Romberger takes a look at 2021’s hit biography of Stan Lee from journalist Abraham Reisman and ask: how honest are we willing to get, this time around?
Beyond Spider-Man: Steve Ditko’s Letters Provide Insight into an Enigmatic Creator
The written correspondence of Steve Ditko is so voluminous that even now, three years after his passing, readers are still sharing their conversations with the legend. Robert Elder looks at his own conversations with Ditko, a couple of recent non-fiction titles that utilize some of the letters, and examines the scope of this part of the Ditko’s life.
Excerpt: The American Mainstream
Matt Seneca cradles some longbox finds from the early 60s in his ongoing search for the quintessential “mainstream” comic in this exclusive excerpt.
A Holy Grail in the Library of Congress: Visiting Steve Ditko’s Amazing Fantasy #15 Original Artwork
Robert K. Elder takes a look at the look he took at Ditko’s original pages from Amazing Fantasy #15, which now sits in the Library Of Congress.
Steve Ditko and the Comic-Book People
A big-picture/close-reading appreciation of Steve Ditko through the lens of his relationship with the world known as Comicdom. (It’s also a story about a cartoonist’s profound investment in words and his hostility toward editors who didn’t understand his unusual approach to language.)
Eric Stanton: Master Fetish Artist
The story of the bondage artist who shared a studio with Steve Ditko and possibly helped create Spider-Man
I’ll Assign This Treason Case to You
Tegan turns her eye to Steve Ditko, and his Shade the Changing Man series. Gather round: there’s learning to be had.
Steve Ditko 1927-2018
A reflection on the life of Steve Ditko, best known for his many contributions at Marvel and across the comics industry.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/31/17 – Knot Comics)
Steve Ditko, unstuck in time.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/31/16 – Sweaty New Books Lolling Blearily In Shops)
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THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/15/15 – Project-o-rama!)
Comparisons, a review, blurbs, cons, prices, etc.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (11/26/14 – Who, above all, is to blame?)
The roar of a lion across the freezing earth; capsules.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/21/14 – The Sting of Prudence)
AAARGH!! HOW WILL I AFFORD THESE COMICS?! BACK TO THE DOLLAR BINS FOR ME!!
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/27/13 – Last Century in Comics Critics!)
Be this the mark of ideals, or decay? Only critics know, and now they’re talking… FROM AN AGE BEFORE THE COMICS JOURNAL!!
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/12/12 – Perfect Limit)
Words are abstract. Images are concrete. Together, they form DITKO.
Steve Ditko’s Cartooning: Abstraction / Word vs. Picture / Motion
Grid explores the innovative visual techniques of artist Steve Ditko.
One-Artist Anthology Comics
As if it weren’t enough that comics are the domain of the obsessive control freak, there is a cartooning sect that perfectly defines the creative mania responsible for some of our greatest works: the one-artist anthology. This is its history.
Steve Ditko — HA! / AH! — Laughing at Death.
Ditko is a satirist — Ditko creates Black and White Black Comedy with Sick Humor. Ditko’s Creeper: Performance, Heroism, and Mania. Ditko is the single most innovative artist/humorist to come out of the Mainstream Comics Industry. Discuss.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/3/11 – Fresh Presentations)
“Oh my god, is that more money? Comics can smurf right off!”
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/6/11 – No More Holidays)
Welcome back, America! New comics are still on Wednesday, and this column is still… RIGHT NOW.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/27/11 – No More Thinking)
On the ideological dialectic of Steve Ditko’s squiggles and how a slap is sometimes like a kiss. Plus: more comics; more drugs.
