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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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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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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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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Interesting that Iron Man, the most rugged individualisty of the original set of Silver Age Marvel characters, is the one created with little input from either Kirby or Ditko.
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There’s also a remoteness or untetheredness to him - apparently asexual (in both life and art), cold-blooded in all other possible relationships, rejecting any Earthly feeling in favor of capital-R Reason.
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Or at least aspiring to disconnect from feeling - even his late works suggest torment and frustration with being unable to fully submit to A is A.
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Also, isn't the theme of social isolation pretty dominant in libertarian thinking? A society fails to recognize genius and achievement, rewards the weak mass at the expense of the strong individual?
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