One of the preeminent artists from the so-called “Silver Age of Comics” passed away this week. John Romita Sr. was 93 years old and he was a New Yorker, born and raised – just like Spider-Man.
, is also a major comics artist. He joined All Things Considered host Sean Carlson to remember his father and his many contributions to the art form and American pop culture. This conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.
To many of our listeners, your dad was an artist who created and designed characters at both Marvel and DC. He's best known for drawing Spider-Man in the '60s and '70s. He had a hand in creating Wolverine, the Punisher and Luke Cage, among others. But who was he to you? Like I said, as much as he helped with my art-world life, he was that way with all aspects of our lives. He was a brilliant man.
He was always getting into my head that this imagery that we lived in was what was important to show and convey as realism, as opposed to the fantasy of Gotham and Superman's world. So that was part of the education of what I got from him. And it helped, because New York City became a character. I don't know if it was a personality thing or not, but I think because the city around him and us is so ever-present, where he's brought up – it was the brick buildings and the people with their elbows on their windowsills, looking out at the street, watching stickball games in the street – that is something that can be infused in the art, because it's gritty. It became a part of the characters, and the characters became a part of the city.
But what it was, was an education, especially for me. I learned that you can tell the story, and he loved the storytelling aspect of it.In addition to inspiring millions of people with his art, he inspired you to become part of the next generation of artists. Can you tell us more about how he influenced your career and the current generation of comic-book artists?
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