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Does J Ross actually get to interview the notoriously elusive Mr Ditiko? Doubtful.
from Wiki entry on Ditko
© BBC MMVIIBBC Four celebrates comic strips
Classic comics such as The Beano, The Dandy and Viz are to be celebrated in a three-part series on BBC Four.
Writer and satirist Armando Iannucci will narrate Comics Britannia, which is to feature some of the illustrators who wrote and drew the original strips.
And special graphics will bring some of the two-dimensional characters to life.
The series is part of a comics season, which also sees Jonathan Ross tracking down reclusive cartoonist Steve Ditko, one of the creators of Spider-Man.
And BBC Four will be showing episodes of Batman, starring Adam West.
Comic strip stars Dennis the Menace, Roy of the Rovers and the Bash Street Kids will receive special treatment using technology which "allows the audience literally to step inside the comics", the channel said.
The season will be broadcast in September.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/e ... 940239.stm
Published: 2007/08/10 11:13:15 GMT
from Wiki entry on Ditko
The site BestOfMostOf.com reported in April 2007 that Jonathan Ross of the UK television network BBC was producing a one-hour documentary, In Search of Steve Ditko, for the arts channel BBC Four.[14]. The report stated that comics creators, editors and others including Jerry Robinson, John Romita Sr., Neil Gaiman, Paul Levitz, Ralph Macchio, Flo Steinberg, Alan Moore, Mark Millar, Stan Lee, and Cat Yronwode are among the interviewees. A follow-up report three days later stated that Ditko himself declined to be interviewed, and that not all the announced interviewees may be in the final cut