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The Comic Book History of Comics (3 Points)

 I've loved comics my whole life. In fact- I like reading them more than I do reading normal books. But there was always this part of the community I could never touch just because it wasn't my style. Unfortunately that part of comics makes up a majority of the community: Superheroes. I could never get into it. No matter how much I tried, the art styles, content and designs left me feeling absolutely nothing. Eventually I gathered a lot of information through osmosis from friends and cousins who were interested the genre.

I know about Stan Lee. Not a whole lot, so there was a lot of new information here to shock me, but he's always been successful (at least for as long as I have been alive) so I never really thought about how he got to where he did and the mountains he had to climb in order to achieve such notoriety. It's not that I didn't think he worked hard- it just never crossed my mind. 

Learning about how Stan Lee treated his artists after he was thrown around by his publisher so many times gave me a lot of hope for the industry. I agree the artists should be the one's to do the writing with their art before having a script written out, it's amazing how much sense that makes. I'm really glad he let them have that opportunity. I know that even if I don't know a ton about superheroes in depth, I do know how many iterations of the same characters there are and how great that is that each artist can run with their own interpretation and still come out with a wider audience. It's good to know that the industry has been based on a guy who at least had some positive morals when it came to his work collaborations. 

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