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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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
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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