Steve Ditko – Part 2 (Show 072)

We continued our discussion about Steve Ditko and how his Objectivist views shaped his artwork and career. Thanks to Javier Hernandez, we were able to get Blake Bell, the writer of the new book about Steve Ditko, and Mort Todd, who worked closely with Steve on several projects since the 1980s. This was a very interesting show. If you enjoyed last week’s show you are going to love this one.

If you would like to learn more about Blake and his book, visit ditko.comics.org. His book Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko is out now and you can pick it up at Amazon.com.

Todd Mort also has a few sites I would like to plug. Sadistik is a project where he translates Italian photo comics to English. You can also check out his media company at ComicFix.com.

I would like to thank everyone that was on the show. It was a lot of fun and I look forward to talking with you again sometime.

Steve Ditko – Part 1 (Show 071)

Last week Javier Hernandez, a long time listener, talked about an Objectivist comic book artist named Steve Ditko. I am going to refer you to Javier’s blog for show notes about this show. He wrote a really good story of how he found TalkObjectivism. Everything in the post we covered on the show.

I emailed him to tell him all this, and asked him if he was aware of Steve Ditko. I gave him some background on Ditko’s work on Spider-Man and his own Objectivist heroes like The Question and Mr. A. Mosley was quite interested in all of this, and soon we are talking about me appearing on his show to talk about Steve Ditko! I was happy to do it, of course.

Read more @ javiersblog.blogspot.com!

Javier has is own podcast and you can find more information about it at Planet Comic Book Radio.