Melanated Female Inventors. Ten inventions that happened because of Black Women.
Every year I learn about more things we have thanks to black inventors and that makes me very happy
Amazing, I also really loved "Hidden Figures"
Character design + animation guide for Disney’s Zootopia.
unfortunately, HP Lovecraft stories occasionally had some racist words in it unfortunately
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Rest in peace, Stan Lee (December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018)
Stan Lee + MCU cameos (2008–2018)
I kept wondering if I should post this but fuck it, I’ve read enough about him to know Stan would have loved it.
The story goes that there was a magazine that wanted to do a story about Marvel Comics, and the reporter showed up with a photographer to shoot some images to use in the article. Someone cracked a joke about doing nude photos, and one of the other artists couldn’t even finish jokingly refusing before Stan Lee was taking his pants off.
He was very saddened that Marvel put the kibosh on the magazine using this photo of him naked with a giant-sized Batman Vs. Hulk comic preserving his dignity. I like to think this is how he’d like to be remembered. Especially the sunglasses.
Stan Lee was a marketing genius, a showman, a storyteller, he was flashy and he made a lot of really…strange business decisions, he made one VERY strange musical album, and he worked for Marvel Comics in one incarnation or another for over seventy-five years. He held some opinions I wouldn’t agree with, but he did a lot of good, too.
He never thought of comics as respectable but he did think of them as important and that’s how I think of him: a flashy weirdo, but an important flashy weirdo.
He chose Stan Lee as an alter ego, like many of his creations. He was saving his name, Stanley Lieber, for the career as a novelist he never quite got around to having, and in the end he said he was proud of Stan Lee.
May your name be a blessing, Stan.
lovecraft and his cat n-…
nnnnn-…
ummm…his cat’s name was uhhhh…
this is a picture of HP lovecraft with his cat
what was his name
oh no
WHAT WAS HIS NAME?
OH NO!
What was the cats name?
Oh
Oh dear.
It can’t be that bad.
Okay it was that bad
This was legit one of the funniest posts on tumblr. Not child bearing hips funny but up there
Wasn’t quite expecting that but I am laughing nonetheless.
So after the many many posts mourning the passing of Stan Lee earlier today I’ve started seeing an inevitable wave of backlash about how he actually wasn’t a good person and we shouldn’t be mourning them. And these posts are par for the course when a celebrity dies because no one is all good or all bad, and that’s fine. And Stan Lee was human, he was a person with a complicated life and a complicated legacy, and I’m not here to whitewash any of that. However, I’d like to refute a couple of the points I’ve seen people making.
The first is that Stan Lee sexually harassed nurses who were taking care of him. This story came from the Daily Mail, which is not a credible news source. The original story does not name any of the nurses who supposedly came forward with the story, or their employer, and the legitimacy of this story is pretty shaky. I’m not saying it categorically isn’t true, but I am saying that we should take stories from the newspaper that ran a headline about the discovery of the “gay gene” with a grain of salt.
The second is that Stan Lee was told that Andrew Garfield wanted to play Peter Parker as bisexual, and as retaliation forced Sony to only depict Peter Parker as straight and white. This isn’t quite true. There is a contract from 2011 that lists mandatory character traits for Spider-Man, and in that list is included that Spider-Man is “not a homosexual (unless Marvel has portrayed that alter ego as a homosexual).” Whether Stan Lee himself personally was involved in writing up this contract is pretty doubtful seeing as his role in the company was fairly limited by that point (and that’s not to mention the fact that in his later years he was being abused and manipulated by the people closest to him), but he did mention it in an interview with Newsarama. What he specifically said was, “I wouldn’t mind, if Peter Parker had originally been black, a Latino, an Indian or anything else, that he stay that way, but we originally made him white. I don’t see any reason to change that (…) I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly, But again, I don’t see any reason to change the sexual proclivities of a character once they’ve already been established. I have no problem with creating new, homosexual superheroes (…) It has nothing to do with being anti-gay, or anti-black, or anti-Latino, or anything like that,” he said. “Latino characters should stay Latino. The Black Panther should certainly not be Swiss. I just see no reason to change that which has already been established when it’s so easy to add new characters. I say create new characters the way you want to. Hell, I’ll do it myself.”
And while your mileage may vary on how much you agree with him there, it’s a far cry from him cruelly declaring Peter Parker having a boyfriend would be an affront before God and man and an insult to his authorial intent or whatever. Also, I think the original post that started this story was about Andrew Garfield saying something while doing press for Amazing Spiderman 2 and Stan Lee writing the contract as a result, but the contract is from 2011 and the first Amazing Spiderman came out in 2012, so the timeline doesn’t work. I could be misremembering the post though. There’s also this implied narrative that Andrew Garfield got axed for saying his Peter Parker was bi, but uh, no. No, they cancelled the franchise because Amazing Spiderman 2 bombed at the box office.
Now, to wrap it up, was Stan Lee a good and perfect man? No. His legacy is very much a mixed bag, especially when it comes to his relationship with his long-time co-creator Jack Kirby (although that’s a whole other suitcase to unpack some other time). I would like to point out, however, that the posts praising him aren’t all just blindly hero-worshipping him and being willfully ignorant. When someone you admire dies it’s natural to forget about the bad parts of them for a bit and get a little misty eyed, and not everyone’s gonna be totally objective about this man that they never met but who represents something important to them. I think that speaks more to the way we interact with celebrity as a culture than it does about the way Marvel fans see Stan Lee frankly. And hey, we gain nothing by pretending that Stan Lee wasn’t an important figure in comic book history, one who co-created the first black character in mainstream comics just two years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, who fought the Comic Code Authority censors to use comics to tackle heavy subject matter, who helped bring legitimacy to the art form and humanity to its characters. So as long as I’ve got you here I’m gonna leave you with his thoughts on racism in 1968, words that feel just as relevant today:
May his memory be a blessing.
Too true
Remember when Ken Penders heavily eyebaled a fanart piece of Shadow at comic con for a commission ? which he heavily referenced from official artwork of Sonic Chronicles (the game he sued?)\
Well Ken Penders tried to justify his heavy eyebaling tho, it, despite the fact he not only got paid for it he also never gave credit and didnt do anything to change the image exept for moving Shadow’s eyes to the left,
and then I assume he blocked the person after they also brought up he legit traced art before and used stock-images without crediting
Ken also ignored these good points.
The penders tracing shadow thing is so dumb it's funny. Like I have no respect for the guy but if he professionally drew sonic characters for a living, you would think that he's capable of drawing a character very similar to sonic without any reference. like even if it looked terrible, it would still a genuine ken penders shadow and you get what you asked for.
The funny thing is, most Sonic characters aren’t even complex design-wise unless they’re robots. Maybe a reference for the Hedgehog character’s quills is understandable but otherwise they’re simple.
It’s shows just how amateurish he is.
Is ken penders still on his wacko bullshit ??
Its my legal duty to tell ya’ll that Ken Pender’s wikipedia page isn’t protected.
I'm looking through your Ken Penders tag and seeing how long I can make it through without dying from the cringe (and I don't use that term lightly so that says a lot about him lol)
Seeing anything from the Lara-Su Chronicles is instantly cringeworthy so I’m guessing you didn’t get far.
Hey, Ken Penders. If you don’t know how faces work, maybe professional comic book artist isn’t the career for you?
Looks like freakin Picasso.
Actually, he doesn’t seem to be able to grasp the concept of more than two dimensions in his art.
Well, that is, until he suddenly becomes all too aware of it. But that’s not for a time yet, thank God.
(Super Sonic vs. Hyper Knuckles)
I found out today that ken penders made a pitch for a sonic movie called sonic armageddon back in 2002. Yet he stopped another archie comics writer for doing the same thing in 1996.
Nah, that couldn’t have been Ken Penders. Making a complete ass of himself while falling victim to his own hubris is so unlike him.
Thank you. Also, I fully intend "Penders is a douche canoe" to be the last thing I say before I die. This kinda shit is why I follow you.
That just made my day XD You’re too kind!
1 Please Ken stop using real life pictures for your comic work, your character stick out like a sore thumb. Also when somebody asked you on Twitter if you own the copyright you never said yes,
2 Mobuis?..really?
3 Use line art the art with shading and doging just gives it a very uncanny valley
