Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity

Steve Ditko (1927-2018) is one of the most important contributors to American comic books. As the cocreator...
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Author: Zack Kruse
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Language: English
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Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity by Kruse, Zack

Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity

€82,83

Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity

€82,83
Author: Zack Kruse
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Zack Kruse
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 01/15/2021
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781496830548

About the Author
Zack Kruse is a scholar of comics, film, and American literature. His essays have been published in Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, Studies in Comics, and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. His comic strip, Mystery Solved!, appeared in Skeptical Inquirer, and he is a regular contributor to a number of comic book podcasts.

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