Wrote Amber: “My father contributed to the costume, the idea of the web shooting out of Spider-Man's wrist, and the movement which he made with his hands to release the web. ... I still remember my father's beautiful, strong, broad hands as he showed me the movement that makes Spider-Man's web release from his wrist. It was just like my dad to come up with something like that. If you knew my father it would make sense that he had a hand in Spider-Man.” The Stanton-Ditko studio lasted until 1968, when they both set out again on their own. That year, Stanton met Britt Stromsted, a Norwegian woman visiting the U.S. Unlike Grace, Britt was fascinated by Stanton’s artistry, and she even modeled in wrestling poses with Stanton, photos he’d use as references when drawing fighting femmes. Maybe it shoots from his wrist,” Stanton might have said, demonstrating a maneuver with his hand and fingers.

When Malcolm gave up the business, he left Stanton the mailing list and the artist duly launched a new kinky series called Stantoons, catering more and more to the specific needs of his 20,000 customers. "I am like a priest or a doctor," he admitted. "I can't say anything about my customers. I've just learned that, if one has a fantasy, lots of others usually share it." Something in Stanton’s psychological makeup dictated channeling and creating art as a means of attaining a proper balance and some measure of control in his life. The actual art he made—the artifact itself—was always less important than the process. [...] It was the process of making art that Stanton lived for; it was that process of exploration and discovery. Vor Bezirk Tainan-Annan - Vinyl / Turntables haben Taiwan verschoben - Die Ära des ökonomischen StartsWhen she asked him what was so unbelievable, he confessed that he’d helped another artist, naming Steve Ditko, create the character. And he told her what he’d contributed.

In 1963, Stanton did a few very clever drawings for the Selbee magazine, Female Mimics. These are from Female Mimics 1, Female Mimics 2 and Female Mimics 3. The studio was bare bones. “It was a room about ten feet by twenty,” said Stanton. “One side was all windows. Steve’s desk and mine faced each other next to the window.”Together he and Ditko would have ‘skull sessions’ and choreograph many of the great action sequences throughout the books.” He explained that since Spider-Man was so famous, it might draw attention to him as an artist if people knew he contributed to the creation of the character,” Amber wrote. “My brother and I were children and in school, and he feared that it could negatively effect our lives if people knew he was an erotic fetish artist.” This book is absolutely fabulous, filled with bondage, erotica and torture of all kinds. Sorayama's ability to capture the erotic essence of a female is astonishing. His attention to detail and creativity left me in awe.

I always worked with water and tempera. I never liked oils. I can't stand the thought of taking more than an hour or two on a piece. The cover illustrations were in no way connected directly to the text of the novels. Sometimes Malcolm would describe a specific scene but the titles - Strange Hungers, Pleasure Bound, Something Extra - never had anything to do with the story. Gerda Wegener (1886-1940) Danish illustrator and painter, from the provinces but moved to Copenhagen to pursue her education at the Royal art Academy, and married fellow artist Einar Wegener in 1904. After moving to Paris in 1912, found much success both as a painter and illustrating for Vogue, La Vie Parisienne, Fantasio, and many other magazines. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_Wegener [Sept 2005]Her mother was angry that Stanton never claimed recognition or royalties because of his role in creating the character. When Amber asked her father about it, “his response,” she said, “made it clear that it was something he would never even consider because the ideas were freely given. Says Seves: “One could only imagine how gratifying Ditko’s presence must have been to Stanton after his time with Grace; from being around someone who was repulsed by art to being around someone whose very waking moment was consumed by it. ‘There were times Steve would spend twenty hours straight doing a comic,’ Stanton remembered. This time they happen to have a corset and maid’s uniform. I understand that this is a work of fiction, but at least try to make it believable. The damn corset even has a built in gaff with fake fur to simulate public hair. And Ditko was completely accepting of Stanton: ‘He thought my stuff was funny. We’d laugh a lot,’ Stanton said, as he fondly remembered years later. ‘Every experience that I had with Steve was terrific, as far as I was concerned.’” Seves quotes Ditko about the full-face mask: “I did it because it hid [Peter Parker’s] obviously boyish face. It would also add mystery to the character and allow the reader/viewer the opportunity to visualize, to ‘draw,’ his own preferred expression Peter Parker’s face and, perhaps, become the personality behind the mask.”