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Chargement... True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Leepar Abraham Riesman
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I received a copy of this book as a part of the Hugo Voter's Packet. And I am so glad that it was included. Stan Lee was an interesting man. He was famous, but famous in the way that certain comedians or Adam West were famous. The star was not necessarily the person. Instead, it was the persona that they put on, the mask that they wore. For my generation, Stan Lee was the good-natured, funny cameo in every Marvel film. He was the voice that yelled "True believers!" and "Excelsior!" Yet, Riesman shows us the Stan Lee behind Stan Lee (TM). What a fascinating story to hear. Warts and all. I loved this book, not because it confirmed my beliefs or condemned Stan Lee, but because it revealed. It turned Stan Lee into someone real. I highly recommend this to any Marvel fan. This biography of Stan Lee is exhaustive, gripping, and thorough. Stan Lee made Marvel Comics, but more than that, he made himself... and then, in the long run, unmade himself. The portrait that emerges from this book is of a smart man and a hard worker who was unafraid to exploit others for his own gain, and always felt that he was due more than he had gotten, and willing to do almost anything to get it. I knew a lot of this in broad strokes, especially Lee's days as a Marvel editor co-creating a lot of iconic characters—ones that really owe more to his co-creators than him—but Riesman provides a lot of detail and supporting evidence, and crafts an engaging tale. I knew less about Lee's post-Marvel career, and Riesman offers a pretty damning portrait of financial malfeasance and empty promises at Stan Lee Media. Later in Lee's life, he was surrounded by vicious people willing to exploit them, and it's a tragedy... but a tragedy of Lee's own making in some ways, as he would invite into his circle anyone willing to tell him how he could make it big. It's moving, in the sense that you really feel like you're watching something genuinely horrible happen. Good insight into just what Stan Lee did or didn't do, and a breezy read, but sad to see the decline and shabbiness of his last couple of years and the various parasites in his entourage. Also it impressed upon me the reality that comic books are really just awful trash, dress them up how you might want to, and Stan Lee had a bunch of really terrible terrible ideas. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee, an artist and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture at a steep personal cost. Stan Lee-born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922-is one of the most beloved and influential entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as editor in chief of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, launched more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property than anyone other than Walt Disney: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Black Panther, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Thor...the list seems to never end. On top of that, his carnival-barker marketing prowess more or less single-handedly saved the comic-book industry and superhero fiction. Without him, the global entertainment industry would be wildly different-and a great deal poorer. But Lee's unprecedented career was also pitted with spectacular failures, controversy, and bitter disputes. Lee was dogged by accusations from his longtime collaborators Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko over who really created Marvel's signature characters-icons for whom Lee had always been suspected of taking more than his due share of credit. A major business venture, Stan Lee Media, resulted in stock manipulation, bankruptcy, and criminal charges. And in his final years, after the death of his beloved wife, Joan, rumors swirled that Lee was a virtual prisoner in his own home, issuing cryptic video recordings as a battle to control his fortune and legacy ensued. Abraham Riesman is a veteran culture reporter who has conducted extensive new interviews and research, turning up never-before-published revelations about Lee's life and work. Lee's most famous motto was: "With great power comes great responsibility." True Believer chronicles every triumph and every misstep of an extraordinary life, and leaves it to readers to decide whether Lee lived up to the responsibilities of his own talent"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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That said, this book is well worth reading if you're interested in Lee, or comics, or New York's publishing industry during the pulp era. ( )