Spider sense ... still

IMO, one of the 3 men who made modern comics. Ditko, Kirby and Lee, in the course of making a week-to-week living transformed comic from 40-50's "golden age" into that 60's "silver age"(those labels are reversed IMO).

Ditko's line and psychedelic sense were monumental. In my teens it was just too stylized and I couldn't get in to it, but in the last 10 or so years I have been obsessed. I have a collection of pre-superhero monster books in which Ditko features prominently on it's way to me as I write this.

Steve Ditko was a fervent Objectivist and kind of a nut. Having Stan Lee as a partner was easy on NOBODY. I always thought their feud was 1/2 childish. Lee wrote the Spiderman character. Ditko's art WAS the Spiderman look. Neither could have done it without the other in the same way.

Having him found dead, alone in his apartment, days after his death is kind of par for the sad course.

There is a tear in the All-seeing Eye of Agamatto tonight.