Not much, but he does have a couple of quotes.

Love that headline. "Doodles"? Really.

I actually enjoyed that. It was written in such a way that a person like me who just wonders what the hell makes him tick could get a glimpse.

I hope his correspondence with Dave Sim comes to light, sooner rather than later.

That was an interesting glimpse at Ditko.

He sounds like some of the folks around here!

He never married, never had children. He was never particularly close to anyone with whom he worked. He has been called “impossibly uptight.” ...

Ditko has fallen out with many of his colleagues over the years because of conflicts or perceived slights. He no longer speaks to Stan Lee because in 1999, Lee wrote an open letter assigning Ditko half of the credit for creating Spider-Man, saying he “considered” Ditko to be the co-creator. Ditko took issue with the word “consider,” and that was that.

That story was great. Thanks for the link. It's good to see Ditko getting a little recognition (though he'd rather not get any!) from beyond the comic buying public.

And he still draws for 8 hours a day, as he's been doing for decades. Aren't you glad you prefer more *normal* artists?

Ditko is a conundrum.

He wants nothing to do with Spider-Man and is irritated that people keep asking him about it. Feh! It was one paying job from 50 years ago! Get off my lawn already!

Fair enough.

But then, as the story shows, he gets pissed when he doesn't get what he feels is adequate credit for his role in Spider-Man, as witnessed by his anger towards Stan Lee.

Eh, a complex man -- and a talent.

I appreciate Ditko's work immensely, but the more I hear about the man himself the more I get the impression he's just not very bright, in either personality or intellect. There's a reason Ayn Rand's books are categorized as Science Fiction — it's because that shit don't work in the real world.

Ditko has the remarkable ability to get worse with practice. His objectivist stuff is pretty much garbage, and that's now the majority of his life's work. I'm inclined to agree with Allen's assessment: there's something not right with an 84 year old man still obsessed with such a simple-minded worldview. "Doodles" about sums it up.

I am not a Libertarian or Objectivist in any way. But I need to say, two of the brightest people I know are very much those.

I don't think it is the level of intellect that is required that makes a system work or not.

That said, I am a big hippie so what the hell do I know.