斯坦·李：动漫之父

斯坦·李这个名字虽然有点陌生，但他创造的漫画角色深受世人喜爱，比如蜘蛛侠、美国队长、钢铁侠、奇异博士等。漫画爱好者们多么希望在现实中也有一位“超级英雄”来陪伴和拯救这位美国漫画界的元老级人物。遗憾的是，2018年11月12日，斯坦·李在好莱坞一家医疗中心去世，享年95岁。

Stan Lee was born in 1922 to a working-class family. After high school， he began working at the comic1 section of Timely Publications， a company that eventually transformed2 into Marvel Comics， and became a comic book editor there at age 18. He published his first storybook， a series comic books Captain America III.

It was not easy to keep writing new books. At age 40， Lee decided to give up on comics. But his wife Joan urged3 him to create the characters he always wanted. And in 1961， Stan Lee moved his comic industry to the peak4. Helped by artist Jack Kirby， he created the Fantastic Four. Unlike traditional comic books， Stan Lee gave every comic character a n i n d i v i d u a l personality. He used his magic pen to let readers know that even super heroes have weakness5， and can face problems just like normal people.

During the same year， Timely Publications was renamed Marvel and the golden age of comic books had begun. Stan Lee created 90% of the famous characters. 2 billion copies of his comic books were sold in over 75 countries with 25 different languages. Stan Lees achievement6 was an important part of American culture. In 2008， Stan Lee was awarded7 the National Medal of Arts， the highest government award for creative artists.

Only doing one thing in life is not something special. What impresses us is to do this thing passionately8 from the very beginning to the end.

1922年，斯坦·李出生在一個工人阶级家庭。高中毕业后，他开始在时代出版公司的漫画专栏工作，这家公司就是著名的漫威漫画公司的前身。18岁的斯坦·李成为一名漫画编辑，并出版了第一部作品，即《美国队长》系列漫画的第三部。

创作这条路，并不轻松。40岁时，斯坦·李想过放弃漫画，但妻子琼鼓励他创作他一直喜欢的漫画角色。1961年，斯坦·李的漫画事业走向巅峰。在艺术家杰克·科比的协助下，他创作了《神奇四侠》。不同于传统的漫画书，斯坦·李赋予每个角色鲜明的个性特征。他用充满魔力的画笔让读者明白，即使是超级英雄，也像普通人一样有弱点，也会面临各种困境。

同年，时代出版公司更名为漫威公司，漫画书的黄金时代开始了。公司90%以上有名的角色都是斯坦·李创造的。他的漫画书在全球75个以上的国家以25种不同的语言印刷，累计出售超过20亿册。斯坦·李的成就堪称美国文化中一个重要的部分。2008年，他获得美国国家艺术勋章，这是美国政府颁给创意艺术家的最高奖。

一生只做一件事情，没什么了不起。了不起的是，充满激情地将这件事情善始善终地做到让世人钦佩。