Interview: JOHN ROMITA   by John Romita Circa 1980   The
following interview was taken in the late '80's while John
Romita was still Art Director up at Marvel Comics. He was
cordial enough to allow me and another aspiring cartoonist from
the Joe Kubert School to interview him as part of a class
project. After the interview he showed us projects he was
currently working on and provided further insight into his work
on the Spider-Man newspaper strip.  He was extremely generous
with his time and the advice he gave is just as relevant today
as it was then.  This interview was conducted by Jim Keefe and
John Mietus. It was transcribed and edited by Keefe.   Jim
Keefe: Who were your major influences growing up?  John Romita:
Well, in comics, it was originally Milton Caniff. I loved
Caniff's characterizations but later found out that they were a
creation of Noel Sickles. Caniff was a good artist, a good
character man, but it was Noel Sickles who created the style.
Hal Foster had done the first snappy daily comic str