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Post by MDG on Apr 1, 2020 15:42:35 GMT -5
And for me it is those individualistic style & design quirks that I am admiring the most. The Kirby mechanical designs. Kirby Krackle. Kirby squared fingers/hands. The Kirby lunge/flying foreward. Kirby powerful roundhouse punches. Kirby outrageously oversized headgear/helmets. Ditko rubbery/bendy legs. Ditko fantasy realms. Ditko rounded heads. Ditko powerhouse uppercuts. Ditko multiple action poses of Spidey across a panel/page to depict his speed/agility. Ditko eyes. Ditko women. Ditko space/aliens/astronauts. Ditko swords/sorcery. So much more style, design and ingenuity than much of what todays artists attempts in being too realistic or believable. I dont need vehicles or animals to being photo realistic when generally simpler caricatures can show or tell as much or more without detracting from the story or art. I think both of them are natural storytellers. Where Ditko comes out a little ahead for me his his ability to visualize abstract concepts.
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Post by kongat44 on Dec 2, 2023 22:48:15 GMT -5
One last note.
Again they are my 2 fav Marvel artists, so no disrespect is meant to either.
Kirby is bold, brash and bigger than life, Ditko is more reserved, smaller, but more personal, both really creative. While I don't think Ditko could have created that FF, Lee and Kirby could never have created the Amazing Spider-Man, or Doctor Strange, as their Spiderman was so different than the one that was eventually made.
While they both wrote a lot of what they produced at Marvel, luckily Stan was there to polish the dialog, and make it quite good, and not so wooden as I am sure what they gave him to start with was, and Stan was also a great editor. Both had endless amounts of creativity in their designs, and storytelling, but I do find Ditko's plots more interesting, and his climaxes to them much more rewarding.
It is hard to even imagine what Marvel would have become, if anything, if Stan, Jack, and Steve were not there. My vote still goes to Steve Ditko.
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