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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jul 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Gail Simone  💙 💛

      1. This is a good tweet in a good thread & I want to expand on this point. Kirby & Kirby both had styles that were curiously at odds with their politics.https://twitter.com/GailSimone/status/1015417564158050305 …

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      Gail Simone  💙 💛 @GailSimone
      He did his best with desperate characters. Kirby excelled at drawing bigger than life, Ditko was best with the small man, the weak man.
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jul 2018

      2. Jack Kirby was a social democrat, Steve Ditko was a Randian individualist. Yet if you were imagining who could adapt Atlas Shrugged, Kirby would come to mind first.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jul 2018

      4. Kirby the social democrat drew large, muscular world conquering heroes & heroines:pic.twitter.com/iYT6DA6x3B

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jul 2018

      5. Ditko the Randian individualist drew characters who were scrawny, wirey, grotesque, over-powered by the world, mystical (Dr. Strange) and animalistic (Spider-Man & his foes)pic.twitter.com/jWxJU7GrDL

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jul 2018

          6. As befits his politics, Kirby did create characters who were born in poverty (as he himself was) but they were always robustly healthy proletarians, in the mold socialist realism. Think of Big Barda, who grew up in the ghettos of Apokalypsepic.twitter.com/TFI2KCrq1l

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jul 2018

          7. As a Randian, Ditko believed that good people were rational, world-conquerers. Yet his imagination swerved in a different direction, against idealization towards surrealism (Dr. Strange's nightmare world) & frailty/vulnerability (Spider-Man).

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jul 2018

          8. I think the disjunction between style & politics in Kirby & Ditko shows that good artists can never be reduced to their programmatic beliefs, that their aesthetic impulses often take them in directions beyond conscious intent.

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jul 2018

          9. Of course Jack Kirby's social democracy comes through not so much in his style as in his thematic concern with groups. Kirby, rare among American artists, had little use for individualism. His characters were always defined by group identity.

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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jul 2018

          10. Kirby grew up in a world of groups: gangs, The Boy's Republic, the army, the team of Simon & Kirby (and its bullpen), his family. Ditko, by contrast, was one of nature's isolates.

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        7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jul 2018

          11. Kirby's stories always came back to groups: Captain America was an army man, the Boy Commandos, Challengers of the Unknown, Sky Masters, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Inhumans, New Gods. Often these were stand-ins for ethnicities or classes

          5 replies 7 retweets 48 likes
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        8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jul 2018

          12. Ditko's characters, by contrast, were loners, misfits, oddballs & radically unclubbable: Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, Mr. A, the Creeper, etc Often their masks covered their entire face, a mark of their social isolation.

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        9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jul 2018

          13. In 1965, Ditko quit Marvel & wrote a letter to Kirby saying (in effect) "Marvel & Lee are screwing us, you should quit too." Ditko as a bachelor could quit, but Kirby was married with four kids.He couldn't. At least not right away.

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        10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jul 2018

          14. In the early 1970s, Kirby did a gentle spoof of Ditko in an allegorical story about an Ayn Rand inspired eccentric who builds his own rocket to the moon, ahead of NASA. http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/effect/2011/11/02/2011someday/ …

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        11. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jul 2018

          15. As an arch-individualist, Ditko died as he lived, alone. When the police discovered his body earlier this month in his apartment, he had been dead for two days.

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