Kruse Zack
Kruse Zack - Mysterious Travelers Steve Ditko And The Search For A New Liberal Identity - Hardcover
Kruse Zack - Mysterious Travelers Steve Ditko And The Search For A New Liberal Identity - Hardcover
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Description: Steve Ditko (1927 - 2018) is one of the most important contributors to American comic books. As the cocreator of Spider - Man 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 Ditko's narratives employed superhero and supernatural fantasy in the service of self - examination and with characters like the Question Mr. A and Static Ditko turned ordinary superhero comics into philosophic treatises. Many of Ditko's philosophy - driven comics show a clear debt to ideas found in Ayn Rand's Objectivism. Unfortunately readers often reduce Ditko's work to a mouthpiece for Rand's vision. Mysterious Travelers unsettles this notion. In this book Zack Kruse argues that Ditko's 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 Ditko's output from 1953 to 1986, Kruse demonstrates how Ditko's comics provide insight into a unique strand of American thought that has had a lasting impact.
Title: Mysterious Travelers Steve Ditko And The Search For A New Liberal Identity
Author(s): Kruse Zack
Publisher: University Press Of Mississippi
Barcode: 9781496830531
Pages: 304 Pages, 42 Black & White Illustrations
Publication Date: 2/1/2021
Series: Great Comics Artists Series
Category: Political Ideologies
Description: Steve Ditko (1927 - 2018) is one of the most important contributors to American comic books. As the cocreator of Spider - Man 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 Ditko's narratives employed superhero and supernatural fantasy in the service of self - examination and with characters like the Question Mr. A and Static Ditko turned ordinary superhero comics into philosophic treatises. Many of Ditko's philosophy - driven comics show a clear debt to ideas found in Ayn Rand's Objectivism. Unfortunately readers often reduce Ditko's work to a mouthpiece for Rand's vision. Mysterious Travelers unsettles this notion. In this book Zack Kruse argues that Ditko's 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 Ditko's output from 1953 to 1986, Kruse demonstrates how Ditko's comics provide insight into a unique strand of American thought that has had a lasting impact.
Title: Mysterious Travelers Steve Ditko And The Search For A New Liberal Identity
Author(s): Kruse Zack
Publisher: University Press Of Mississippi
Barcode: 9781496830531
Pages: 304 Pages, 42 Black & White Illustrations
Publication Date: 2/1/2021
Series: Great Comics Artists Series
Category: Political Ideologies
