Apparently Stan Lee has been awarded the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal today.
The WaPo describes Lee as "co-creator" of most of Marvel Comics' best-known superheroes, which papers over his controversial image in the special world of comics' fandom. It must be killing the families of Steve Ditko (Spider-Man, Dr. Strange) and Jack Kirby (Captain America, Fantastic Four, Hulk, X-Men) to read this headline.
I met Stan Lee once, when I was about 10 years old, at a comic convention in New York City. All I recall is that Stan talked just like his comic book characters; he exhorted us "true believers" and "merry Marvelites" in line for his autograph, and seemed to wear a permanent smile... much like the one in the photo above. Man, it must be great to be that happy all the time!
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