Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity (Great Comics Artists Series),Used
Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity (Great Comics Artists Series),Used

Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity (Great Comics Artists Series),Used

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Steve Ditko (19272018) is one of the most important contributors to American comic books. As the cocreator of SpiderMan and sole creator of Doctor Strange, Ditko made an indelible mark on American popular culture. Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity resets the conversation about his heady and powerful work. Always inward facing, Ditkos narratives employed superhero and supernatural fantasy in the service of selfexamination, and with characters like the Question, Mr. A, and Static, Ditko turned ordinary superhero comics into philosophic treatises. Many of Ditkos philosophydriven comics show a clear debt to ideas found in Ayn Rands Objectivism. Unfortunately, readers often reduce Ditkos work to a mouthpiece for Rands vision. Mysterious Travelers unsettles this notion.In this book, Zack Kruse argues that Ditkos philosophy draws on a complicated network of ideas that is best understood as mystic liberalism. Although Ditko is not the originator of mystic liberalism, his comics provide a unique window into how such an ideology operates in popular media. Examining selections of Ditkos output from 1953 to 1986, Kruse demonstrates how Ditkos comics provide insight into a unique strand of American thought that has had a lasting impact.

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