Mysterious Travelers
Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity
$86.63
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
27 February 2021
Summary
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 charact…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781496830548 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1496830547 |
| Author: | Zack Kruse |
| Publisher: | University Press of Mississippi |
| Imprint: | University Press of Mississippi |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 27 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 422g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 155mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Great Comics Artists Series |
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Critics Review
Zack Kruse’s Mysterious Travelers is a serious engagement with the philosophic vision that Steve Ditko brought to his comics, giving us new, generative terms to engage with Ditko’s work going forward.–Shawn Gilmore “Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society”Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity provides a unique and valuable take on the comics of Steve Ditko, one of the most important creators in the history of the medium. It also offers valuable insight into mid-twentieth-century philosophical and political thought.–Andrew Kunka, author of Autobiographical Comics
About The Author
Zack Kruse
Zack Kruse is a scholar of comics 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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