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Kruse, Zack: Mysterious Travelers. Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2021. (275 S.) Added by: joachim (2020-05-18 21:03) Last edited by: joachim (2021-04-17 16:42) |
| Resource type: Book Languages: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781496830531 BibTeX citation key: Kruse2021 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Ditko. Steve, Philosophy, Superhero, USA Creators: Kruse Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi (Jackson) |
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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. |
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