Literary Criticism Comics & Graphic Novels
Stan Lee
Conversations
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2007
- Category
- Comics & Graphic Novels, Interviews, Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781578069859
- Publish Date
- Jul 2007
- List Price
- $37.95
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Description
Interviews with the co-creator of The Amazing Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, and The Uncanny X-men
About the author
Jeff McLaughlin is a professor of philosophy at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops BC. His Comics as Philosophy expanded the field of comics studies. His teaching and research interests are quite varied and include: applied ethics, critical thinking, popular culture, the Holocaust. While Lynn Johnston was drawing For Better or For Worse in Lynn Lake, Manitoba, Jeff was growing up 670 miles south in Winnipeg, Manitoba looking forward to that day's comics page.
Editorial Reviews
In 2005, Jeff McLaughlin, a philosophy professor at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia and editor of the book Stan Lee: Conversations, asked Lee if there was one question he would ask himself among the thousands he had received in his lifetime?one query he wished someone had thought to ask him. “I wouldn?t,? Lee said, as self-deprecating as ever. “There's nothing really I want anybody to know about me particularly.? After his display of humility, he laughed.
Vanity Fair, November 12, 2018