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Mark Haslett
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When you did Spider-Man: Chapter One and Blood of the Demon, did you
consciously address the question to yourself of how much to emulate Steve
Ditko and Jack Kirby in your artwork? (Maybe that's 2 questions?)
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Since Kirby and Ditko were already major influences, I had but to go with the flow!
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That sounds fun!
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Mark Haslett
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This is one image that brought this question to mind. It makes me see STEVE
DITKO + NEAL ADAMS + JACK KIRBY + practice, practice, practice = JOHN
BYRNE.

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I read somewhere that JB saw his art as "laid out by Ditko, outlined by Kirby, finished by Adams," or something like that. I probably have the order wrong.
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What does “outlined by” even mean?? 
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That's probably my favorite image of Spider-Man ever.
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Posted: 03 April 2020 at 12:04pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply

GENERATIONS was a masterful display of channeling other artists' styles yet clearly still saying "Byrne".

I wish I got to see some pencils of the ENEMY ACE story. Inker Adam Kubert was fully emulating his dad's style at the time, so I've wondered if JB steered in that direction in the pencils as well.


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Just barely. I depended on Adam to supply the look I wanted.
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That Spider-Man image is fantastic. I agree with the
Ditko/Adams hybrid description.
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That’s my personal favorite of all my drawings of Spider-Man. But if I could borrow a time machine, I’d like to go back and tell myself to raise and foreshorten the middle finger of the right hand. As is, it looks like a displaced thumb.
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Brennan Voboril
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I remember when I first saw that image.  It was so dead-on the money.  In my mind I could see Spider-Man climbing up the side of the building.
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