ICV.COM has a two-part Mike Richardson Interview. Richardson is the publisher at Dark Horse Comics, and a former APA-5 member. Something that stood out was Richardson on the traditional comic book format:

"Obviously there’s less interest in the pamphlets than in the past and more interest in having a book that people can put on their shelves with the other books that they enjoy, so you see a growth of the graphic novel business. I’ve said it a billion times, I’ll say it again: for many people it’s probably a better reading experience to have an entire story in a book that they can put on a shelf than to get a story in 20- or 22-page installments 30 days apart over the course of a year that they end up putting in a box in a closet somewhere. "

Bizarrowuxtry blog by Devlin Thompson has a Frank Robbins Catwoman. Thompson says that the 1970s Catwoman action figure from Mego was based on Robbins rendition of the Catwoman suit

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The site Kleefeld on Comics has a letter from Steve Ditko on Creativity (and slightly on Spiderman)

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Steve Ditko has been providing articles to the cinema site "Big Hollywood." They just posted an article (more of a list of philosophical points) by Ditko titled "The Ever Unreachable." Here's a few points to give the flavor of Ditko's thinking (which, as had been noted in many places, reflects writer Ayn Rand of "Atlas Shrugged" and "Fountainhead" fame):

• 9. Few minds are willing to clearly understand events that affect their lives. Even events like 9/11, terrorism, don’t cause the needed questioning, understanding, of one’s and other’s opposing belief systems, philosophies of life. There is not real concern to know the kind of consequences inherent in any belief, action or philosophy.
• 10. It’s the way many comic book fans, “historians”, don’t seek any fundamental understanding of the role of a hero or the reason, purpose, consequences of anti-heroes, rotting heroes and the deaths of comic book heroes.
• 11. Too many minds are willing to take the path of least resistance, go along with the crowd, seek the comfort of some in-group and be relieved of thought and responsibility by following some claimed, believed, authority. In comics, it’s with some editor, comic book expert or “historian”.
• 89. In comics fandom today, there are too many acting like babies whining, crying, throwing temper tantrums and demanding another’s bottle or toy...

Steve Ditko at Big Hollywood

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