User blog:ARTaylor/Stan Lee Honored

Stan Lee will be honored with the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Visual Effects Society. He will receive the honor at the 10th Annual VES Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 7, 2012.

In a statement, VES Chair Jeffrey A. Okun said "Stan Lee's imagination has created a completely original and profitable niche in the entertainment world and has allowed visual effects to flex its muscle in service to it! [...] Thanks to Mr. Lee's fantastic creations and amazing stories he not only created a future filled with gadgets and inventions that we aspire to create for real -- but all while inspiring the minds and imaginations of storytellers, visual effects artists and computer wizards everywhere."

In his own statement, Lee replied "As a writer there is nothing more rewarding than to see your creations brought to life on the screen and I am indebted to all of the incredibly talented artists who have contributed to my projects."