Spider-Man Legend John Romita Sr. on His Favorite Issues, Redefining Spidey | SYFY WIRE
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- John Romita Sr. took over Spider-Man in 1966 and made the book his own (it soon became Marvel's top seller). He reflects back on his favorite issues, taking over for Steve Ditko and more.
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Spider-Man Legend John Romita Sr. on His Favorite Issues, Redefining Spidey | SYFY WIRE
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His face lighting up when he’s called legendary is so pure and heartwarming ❤️
Spoon Dude
Agreed
Oh yeah definitely nice logo @Spoon dude lol
RIP Mr Romita. June 13, 2023
Attention to Romita so long past due! I got to ask Stan Lee a question at his "Meet Stan for Breakfast" this year at the Dallas Comic Con. My question was simple .... "Out of all the artists you have worked with over all the years at Marvel, who was your "go to" guy? Who was the artist you went to in a pinch?" He didn't hesitate, he said "Oh that's easy, John Romita" and then went into detail of his praise and admiration of Mr Romita.
awesome! I should have done the breakfast with him at Megacon!
Romita Sr. drew the quintessential Spider-Man
I agree WHOLLY and COMPLETELY!!!
danzigvssartre I respect that...but...it was ditko
My favorite Spiderman artist, for sure...
@@durellpowell875 No, Romita.
true
John Romita Sr. Not only an incredible artist, but the only person in the entire comicbook industry who nobody ever says anything negative about. Why? Because he was beloved by everyone, because he was nice to everybody, and because he was like a father for 3 or 4 generations of Marvel artists.
he wasnt nice to me
@@sirrom5155what’d he do?
Absolute legend. Sorely missed. 😪
my favorite comic book artist... all time baby
His work is wonderful.
Agreed.
My favorite Spiderman artist, for sure... But my favorite comicbook artist has to be Mobius (Jean Giraud). He was simply too good.
Mine too!
Best Spiderman artist of ALL TIME.
There is Romita, then the rest.
He’s the most legit person in the comic industry imo.
My favorite Spider Man artist!
Love John Sr and JR two of the all time greats.
Technique indeed. Still awe inspiring his art is and trying to keep it as close to Ditko to building to his own iconic style.
The Comic world owes so much to John and his talents! So cool to see this interview.
RIP John Romita Sr.
Rest in peace
Really enjoyed this interview. John Romita Sr is simply one of the greatest action artists. Steve Ditko's action scenes in Spiderman, were very well choreographed and fun to look at but lacked impact. John Romita Sr action/fight scenes always had more raw, explosive power imho. Loved it when Gil Kane [another great action artist] did a few issues and Romita Jr did the inks. Kane & Romita Sr were an awesome team. When Romita Sr left the Spiderman for good,I found it was hard to stay interested in following the series anymore.
Romita always elevated artists when he inked their pencil work. The Gil Kane/John Romita team was PHENOMENAL. Kane had great detail and fantastic poses, but his style was rough and raw. Romita smoothed out those rough edges while keeping all that detail and style - and those great poses and angles! Jazzy Johnny was the best!
4:04 those curtains!
RIP John Romita.
One of my fav moments with comics is meeting him in Baltimore many years ago. I wanted to do a pieces of art for him as a thank you. He sat me down next to him and let me draw it. It was amazing.
Thanks for the interview
Back in March 1970,when Kirby left marvel, he tried to take Romita with him. Romitas wife talked him out of accepting the offer .I;m glad she did.
RIP
My favorite comic book artist of all time.
I love John romita
What an amazing, nice man. Super-talented. One of a kind.
Legend.
Another great artist for the comic book industry
He may not top Ditko imo but that doesn't mean that he's worst he's still amazing he's still spectacular
O melhor Spyder de todos os tempos é de John Romita Sr.
Kirby, Lee, Ditko, Romita Sr, Lieber, and Sinnot marvels silver age legends hopefully Romita can start getting Cameos in future films same for Lieber and sinnot
John Buscema?
Gene Colan too!
Sorry that I forgot those 2 honestly the list probably could have been longer if I went in depth, my bad
They should give the Romita's cameos in the Marvel movies
Gracias por dejarnos a Wolverine.
I would take J.R. sr anyday over those creative sheep at Marvel now...so sad what my FAVE comics company has turned into....I guess I'll just stick to the classics...
Greg Land who is employed at Marvel would never be employed during the Stan lee,shooter, defalco eras
He's talking about using brushes vs. using pens... aren't brushes and pens what inkers use, whereas the initial drawings are done with pencils? I thought that during his initial run on TASM that Romita was the penciller and Mike Esposito (AKA: Mickey Demeo) was the inker.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's talking about the inking process. Romita inked issues 42-47 himself. From what he said here Ditko used pens to ink his work, so Romita did the same for the first year when he inked those issues. He may have had Esposito do the same thing for the issues he inked. Romita's true style comes out when he uses his wide array of brushes for inking.
MaximRecoil , mister romita was sometimes his own inker and he sure was on issues 108 and 109 that he mentions as his favorites because I'm reading it in the credits in the essential Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5, which is an affordable way to get those issues and Boodles and kaboodle's of others, and they are in beautiful black and white to to boot so you can appreciate his draughtsmanship and inking all the more
:rereads #108-#109: :D
Differences between Romita and Ditko? John was a run-of-he-mill artist.....like Don Heck, Sal Buscema, Lee Elias, Werner Roth, etc.....he could tell a story with pictures, which puts him so much ahead of many of the "artists'' doing comics nowadays.....but Ditko? He had so much style and I'll leave it at that.
The difference is that the heart of the book under DItko (and he wrote as well despite the credits) was Peter's growing up process, and the superhero stuff was secondary. After Ditko, the book became truly a superhero series heart and soul.
If you didn't know, from what I've heard, S-M's sales actually jumped when Romita took over. His was a more commercial style. But to say the Stan never 'wrote' it is inaccurate. Yes, Ditko probably plotted it, but there's no way Steve put the words in the balloons. Like FF and Kirby, it definitely wasn't a 50/50 relationship.. But SL not the "writer"? Nonsense........I guess Don Heck wrote Iron Man and the Avengers, Gene Colan wrote Daredevil?
Ditkos art was ugly eyesore and though quirky was quite simplistic. Romitas art was grand and beautiful.
@@wk3820 But Spider-Man truly became a soap opera only under Romita so Id say it was the other way around. Peter didn't really grow under Ditko. It was the same old stuff over and over. Under Romita Peter got close to Gwen, met MJ, moved in with Harry, the hang out meet ups, Flash went off to Vietnam etc.
you guys must have had a lot of footage right? Why'd you recycle so much footage and upload such short interviews?
I think that John mixes stuff up a bit. Why would he use a pen instead of a brush in his first year on Spider-man to emulate Ditko, when he didn't even ink Spidey until much later in his career?
ROMITA is just a BETTER ARTIST than DITKO ever WAS!!! GOD bless DITKO'S soul but I am just TELLING THE GRUTH!!!
Truth?
You want the gruth? You can’t handle the gruth.
That's the gruth, but not the truth
💭
RIP Legend
These videos are way too short. Waste of a good interview opportunity
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WTF?
john romita sr needs to quit living in the past and get back to drawing...
Dude, the guy's 89 years old...
That's probably why he's lived longer than the rest beacuse he hasn't been chained to a table drawing, most of them don't seem to reach their 80s
@@wk3820 I can say this. One's eyes start to give them trouble, his fingers start to stiffen up on him, or both.
I wish it was that simple. The styles have changed so much, Mr Romita said in one interview he didn't think he could get hired at Marvel currently, since he doesn't draw it the way they look now
Ditco the mystery Romita the Jazzy One.🕸🕷