When asked what goes into designing a really truly great Spider-Man costume that isn’t the original, he said, “Well, it's hard. “It was so enveloping that there was more to the character than just the physical artwork of the character.”Ĭink then reflected on Ramos’ 20 years drawing Spider-Man, and specifically on his time creating Doc Ock’s Superior Spider-Man. It was a descriptive plot that my father would take notes on,” he explained. “And then my father would discuss stories with us and tell us what Stan was doing this morning at the office to describe the plot because there was no plot. After joking about his age, he shared that he started drawing when he was 2-years-old and offered an intimate look at his life and experience with the character, saying that Spider-Man reminded him of family: “From the time my father drove my brother and I past a building and pointed and said, ‘That's where Peter Parker lives.’ We were young enough not to understand, but the fact that Spider-Man lived near us, it felt like a family member.” Cink asked what kept Romita coming back to this character.
Romita’s career at Marvel, which spans the last 40 years, often returns to Spider-Man – most recently, with AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2022) #1. Quesada said that Iron Man – or anyone metallic, for that matter – is difficult, while Romita joked that Aunt May was actually a pain in the butt for him personally. You guys know what I'm talking about, right, when the mask has to meet the costume and the back of the mask?”Īfter commiserating over their shared difficulty in drawing webbing, they discussed whether Spider-Man was hard to draw. “That webbing is just-it's so hard to draw, especially around the mask and neck area. “I will admit that every time I have to draw Spider-Man in the traditional costume, which is also my favorite, I curse Steve Ditko because of that darn webbing,” he added. But both of them take on different aspects, and that's what's fun about the Marvel Universe, right, is the fact that all these characters have very different attributes if you pay attention and do it right, which Johnny did.” “Spider-Man is just this sort of gangly, awkward, bendable kind of figure that is so fun to draw. “But Daredevil is more of a gymnast,” he continued. “There's a…real big distinction between those two characters, even though they both leap across rooftops and do kind of the same thing, with the exception of sticking on walls and webbing.” “Well, I think his style of drawing, there's a creepiness to him that's kind of cool, right?” he pointed out. Quesada also discussed Ditko’s style of drawing, which has been instrumental since Spider-Man’s initial design, and drew a comparison to Daredevil as well. But the bent legs and the awkwardness compared to a Daredevil, per se.”
And maybe the conversation about the fact that he was an awkward teenager might have played into it. He's not as graceful as other characters. would draw the character was, according to Stan Lee, this is a different type of a cat. For Romita, it was not just the costume, but the character’s awkwardness, which was effortlessly captured by both Steve Ditko and John Romita Sr. “It was the awkwardness and the way Steve Ditko and then subsequently John Romita Sr.
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