From The Hollywood Reporter: "John Romita Sr., Legendary Marvel Artist, Dies at 93"
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From The Hollywood Reporter: "John Romita Sr., Legendary Marvel Artist, Dies at 93"
This hurts.
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This shocked me more than most of the other comics professionals we've lost.
He seemed immortal.
What to say? Another Great One gone...
This is a sad loss. Romita was one of the greats.
Is that it for the Silver Age greats? I think Ramona Fradon is still around. Roy Thomas is kicking. Who else is living from that era?
John Romita was always one of my favorites. I liked his art when I didn't know what comic book art was. A true master and an expert at every Marvel character.
Oh, no.
He lived a long life and was apparently in good health right up until the end.
His legacy will endure.
I celebrate that.
So sad to hear of JR's passing. His arrival at Marvel in the mid-Sixties was one of the primary reasons I became a regular reader of Marvel Comics. I loved his renditions of Daredevil and Spider-Man and his cast. He had a style that appeared effortless. Like Curt Swan's Superman, Romita's Spider-Man defined the look of the character for a generation.
John Romita's Spider-Man is "my" Spider-Man, and somewhere buried in my collection is a scrapbook of the first year of the Amazing Spider-Man newspaper comic strip. Romita drew the dailies and Sundays, and that was a time when you couldn't count on such things being collected in a trade paperback, so I dutifully cut the strips out of the paper each day and saved them myself.
I loved how he would add bits of business to the Sunday strips, like adding the celebrities of the day -- who always, under his pencils and brushes, looked younger and handsomer.
While I missed his run on Amazing Spider-Man, I got to see it in Marvel Tales.
He along with John and Sal Buscema and Gene Colan were the artistic pillars of Marvel for the late Silver/Early Bronze Age period!
As I have already written elsewhere, while Romita was not one of the "founding fathers" (Kirby, Ditko, Lee, etc) without him Marvel wouldn't be where it is today.
A talented artist who will be sorely missed.
Romita's run on Amazing Spider-Man made it a lasting success. He plotted (with his family) as well as drew. He became Marvel's de facto art director in the second half of the 1960s, and its official art director later. His work and John Buscema's defined Marvel's house style of the 1970s/earlier 1980s, and he had large hand in the era's very attractive covers. Marvel wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for him. It would have gone under in the 1970s.