Bill Maher Disrespects Stan Lee's Legacy And Questions The Importance Of Comic Books

Is Bill Maher ever respectful of anyone? Yes, for the most part, comic books are for kids. But that should be praised, rather than scorned! Stan Lee inspired many kids to care about social and political issues. His characters are also iconic. Just because Maher doesn't get it, that doesn't mean that he should disrespect the man's legacy.

Bill Maher has really been showing me the last few years why he was the only Liberal i ever enjoyed listening to

Bill Maher insists he didn't take a "swipe" at Stan Lee, says the backlash over his comments proved his point

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-people-mad-at-me-for-take-on-dumb-fcking-comic-book-culture-proved-my-point/

The Real Time host responded to the backlash over his "Adulting" blog post that criticized Lee's legacy following his death. "I am agnostic on Stan Lee. I don’t read comic books,” Maher said in an interview with Larry King. “I didn’t even read them when I was a child. What I was saying is, a culture that thinks that comic books and comic book movies are profound meditations on the human condition is a dumb f*cking culture. And for people to get mad at that just proves my point.” Maher added: "I’m so glad that I don’t follow social media like that, every stupid thing that people lose their shit about. But talk about making my point for me.”

I was wondering how long adult comics have been around. Almost a century! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijuana_bible

Tijuana bibles (also known as eight-pagers, Tillie-and-Mac books, Jiggs-and-Maggie books, jo-jo books, bluesies, blue-bibles, gray-backs, and two-by-fours)[citation needed] were palm-sized pornographic comic books produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s. Their popularity peaked during the Great Depression era.

When I was a child, comic books weren't supposed to be read because they were considered crass. As an adult, comic books aren't supposed to be read because they're considered juvenile.

My reading level was two grades above because of all the comics I read as a child including historical and satirical ones. How many seven years old are knowledgeable about the national political situation and current affairs?

There are plenty of "sophisticated" graphic novels like "Maus" about the Holocaust which won a Pulitzer or "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" about an Iranian child during the Islamic Revolution.

I still enjoy artwork by Alex Ross, Mort Drucker, Jack Davis and Al Jaffee.

There are plenty of movies and TV shows based on them like "History of Violence", "Timecop", "The Crow", "Walking Dead", "300", "Road to Pedition", "Persepolis" and many superhero themed ones.

There's absolutely nothing wrong or subversive about reading a comic book. They don't have the same stigma from adults outside of America.

Maher is just a pompous snob.

Bill Maher and some people in this topic are extremely arrogant jerks. I am 33 years old and I still enjoy reading Marvel and DC comics and if you insist I'm a man child for that then frankly someone should shove a rock in your mouth!

Doesn't sound like ranting to me. He's just commenting on another infantile aspect of modern society.

I wonder at what age does modern society think people should grow up and give away the things that fascinated them when they were little kiddies.

Seems a pointless rant to me.

Who are people really hurting if they like reading comic books? Nobody. With all the crappy reality TV shows on these days, you'd think people would have better things to call stupid than comic books.

Besides, why bring it up at all? Stan Lee had just died, and a lot of fans wanted to pay respects. If you're not a fan, that's fine. No need to pretend you were. But seems there was no need to say anything at all. Why even bring it up?

Just seems a celebrity wanted to say something controversial for the sake of it.