Airs tonight: PBS’ ‘Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle’ shows comics as uniquely American stories
By Michael Cavna, Washington Post
"Stan Lee wins plaudits and applause most everywhere he goes as the greatest living ambassador of comics. The spry 90-year-old’s name even gets chanted by convention hordes, as if he were a ballplayer or bullfighter or Robert Downey Jr. In these arenas, the man who co-created Thor lopes among us like a cartooning god.
Now, a new documentary trains its lens not only on superhuman comics characters, but also on the real-life characters like Lee who breathed life into them.
Emmy-winning documentarian Michael Kantor and Emmy-nominated collaborator and theater/film historian Laurence Maslon (“Make ’Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America”) plumb the origins of cape-and-cowl comics — and track a nine-decade dynamic of social prominence and setbacks — in their engaging three-hour PBS documentary “Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle,” which debuts Tuesday night.
“He’s the Homer of the 20th century,” says Kantor, who has spent much of the past several years studying at the creative altar of Marvel Comics, where Lee long reigned as writer and editor."
Whole article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/pbs-superheroes-a-never-ending-battle-shows-comics-as-uniquely-american-stories/2013/10/14/743a9b44-350c-11e3-be86-6aeaa439845b_story.html
The 3 hour program airs tonight.
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