It was pathetic how many people pretended to care about his death when he was a hack fraud that brought the industry down in the first place.
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It was pathetic how many people pretended to care about his death when he was a hack fraud that brought the industry down in the first place.
Didn't he only do so many cameos to provide for his daughter who is a compulsive spender?
There's nothing more American than hack fraud art. Being able to build a pop culture empire out of limited talent, a skill for hiring and exploiting talented people, and a genius for promotion is what show business is all about.
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I'm glad Stan Lee is dead he was a hack fraud who stole genius artists' IP, capitalized off of it, leaving them destitute, & turned the mythological elements of superheroes into adolescent soap operas. Marvel has always been like this, this "quip"laden festering mediocre trash.
Jack Kirby was a true American literary genius & he died poor & completely fricked by the industry. Meanwhile, Stan Lee made millions on funko-esque toys & tie-ins, revered by a pack of snarling illiterates. Actually, maybe Kirby was blessed to be forgotten.
Comics are a good medium-- better than film in many respects imo-- as they are more concentrated-- the eye can focus on all of the frozen-in-time detail in each frame (when it exists of course). William Blake illustrated his poems. Dore turned Dante into a "graphic novel".
The problem with the industry was that it was, at one time, extremely profitable & popular-- which lead to the inevitable creation of replicated standards for lowest common denominator. Best time was the 80s when DC was almost bankrupt & said "do as thou wilt" to genius artists.
It's a dead niche medium now-- you'd think they'd somehow increase sales with all of this fervor over the film franchises, but sales continue to plummet. It's another tale of American squandering of art. Same thing happened to animation. Only Japan & Jodorowsky keep it going.
People look down on the medium for very good reasons, but if you want to see how far back it goes-- check out Lynd Ward's wordless German Expressionist novels-in-woodcuts like: Gods' Man & Vertigo. There's lots of genuinely great works in the medium, & those are from the 30s.
Your kids would be better off reading Dragonball & One Piece & Nausicaä etc than our "Young Adult" trash (aside from Lemony Snicket ofc). America hates Art & only lets it live when it doesn't attract mass attention (read as: "huge profits")
>Jack Kirby was a true American literary genius & he died poor & completely fricked by the industry.
That's the American way. See
Are you a commie? Because you sound like a commie that hates America
Though he went a bit looney for a while, seeing interviews with Bill Sienkiewicz can be pretty depressing since he's fully commited to working for the big 2 yet you can tell he misses the 80's and working with the likes of Miller and Moore (I also imagine that something like Stray Toasters would be nearly impossible to print nowadays)
>turned the mythological elements of superheroes into adolescent soap operas.
Superheroes are for kids and adolescents you dense motherfricker.
You are a part of the problem.
I put people who wish Superheros were taken seriously as some sort of artistic or philosophical subject in the same category as those cultists that worship gadget from chip n' dale or people who believe that if they believe hard enough their anime/my little pony waifu will enter the real world.
Didn't read
I'm glad he can upset pretentious hipsters like you from beyond the grave.
Deep down you know there's nothing stopping you from creating a body of work within the medium but you're also aware that your writing just isn't good enough to generate some kind of reliable audience.
He’s not talking about himself though.
the more pathetic thing is how easy it is to spot people who know nothing about comic book industry based on how much they hate Stan Lee.
Not an argument
>NPC response
>brought the industry down
citation needed
The industry is an ad for toys. What do you expect? It’s New Yorkers trying to get past parents and corrupt/influence the youth.
you don't know much about comics
Frick you.