{"id":1604,"date":"2009-06-10T14:41:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T18:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2009-06-10T14:41:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T18:41:18","slug":"ditko-panel-at-heroes-con-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1604","title":{"rendered":"Ditko Panel at Heroes Con 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"ditko_banner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ditko_banner.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1605 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ditko_banner.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"ditko_banner\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again, Craig Fischer and I will be organizing and hosting one of our (in)famous &#8220;mega-panels&#8221; at this year&#8217;s Heroes Con.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s subject: Steve Ditko!\u00a0 Trust me, you&#8217;re going to want to be there for this one.\u00a0 It&#8217;s at 3:00 pm on Saturday in room 213 BCD.<\/p>\n<p>Starting the festivities will be the first ever official U.S. showing of Jonathan Ross&#8217;s BBC Documentary, <em>In Search of Steve Ditko<\/em>.\u00a0 Then comics heavyweights Roy Thomas and Dick Giordano will be speaking about their experiences working with the enigmatic and sometimes prickly Ditko.\u00a0 Finally, Craig, Chris Schweizer (of <em>Crogan&#8217;s Vengeance<\/em> fame) and I will each be discussing one of our favorite pages of Ditko&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s the official skinny:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A IS A+: A STEVE DITKO CELEBRATION!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Midnight Sun<\/em> cartoonist Ben Towle and <em>Thought Balloonist<\/em> blogger Craig Fischer host an extensive tribute to one of the most creative and enigmatic figures in comics: Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko! The first hour will be a screening of Jonathan Ross\u2019s provocative BBC documentary<em> In Search of Steve Ditko<\/em> (2007), featuring interviews with John Romita, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and other high-profile Ditko fans. Following the documentary, two comics legends who worked extensively with Ditko&#8211;writer\/editor Roy Thomas and artist\/editor Dick Giordano&#8211;will share their memories of the man and his art. The tribute ends with Ben, Craig, and cartoonist\/educator Chris Schweizer analyzing their favorite Ditko pages and dissecting Ditko\u2019s contributions to comics history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Be there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Craig Fischer and I will be organizing and hosting one of our (in)famous &#8220;mega-panels&#8221; at this year&#8217;s Heroes Con.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s subject: Steve Ditko!\u00a0 Trust me, you&#8217;re going to want to be there for this one.\u00a0 It&#8217;s at 3:00 pm on Saturday in room 213 BCD. Starting the festivities will be the first &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1604\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-pS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}