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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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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4. Kirby the social democrat drew large, muscular world conquering heroes & heroines:pic.twitter.com/iYT6DA6x3B
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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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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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Robustly healthy proves like sickly Steve Rogers and Buddy Blank?
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Even the sickly Steve Rogers looks like he could kick Peter Parker's (post-spider-bite) ass.
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