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“In Search of Steve Ditko”
In September 2007, BBC4 aired a show hosted and put together by British radio personality / former comic book store owner Jonathan Ross about legendary comic creator Steve Ditko. The show featured interviews with comics creators Jerry Robinson, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Cat Yronwode, Joe Quesada and John Romita; Marvel editors Joe Quesada and Ralph Macchio; former Marvel secretary Flo Steinberg; and Spider-Man (co-)creator Stan Lee.
Though the show focused much attention on Ditko’s work on Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, Ross also discusses the Question, as well as the Question’s more extreme analogue, Mr. A, and how Ditko’s ventures into Objectivism affected his stories. Among the oversized props in the studio is a blown up cover of Mysterious Suspense #1.
In the end, Ross and “sidekick” Gaiman go to Ditko’s New York studio to talk to the artist himself. Thanks to Mark Evanier, below is the entire documentary:
Found: Another video source…watch the documentary at the blog of Doug Pratt!
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