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	Will Eisner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eisner was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jewish immigrants — his father was a former painter, marginally successful entrepreneur, and one-time manufacturer in Manhattan's Seventh Avenue garment district.
		Will Eisner died of complications from a quadruple bypass surgery performed on December 22, 2004 in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida.
		Will Eisner and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Will_Eisner (2407 words)

	NEWSARAMA
		Eisner was persuaded to create a small amount of new Spirit material at this time, but despite a growing fan insistence for more, Eisner did not have much taste for revisiting what he saw as the heroic fantasies of his youth.
		Eisner has been cited as an inspiration by comics' creators from all corners of the genre, and his influence is seen as widely.
		Will Eisner was the wizard behind the curtain, except in his case, the magic was real.
	www.newsarama.com /pages/Eisner.htm (2138 words)

	Comic creator: Will Eisner
		Will Eisner, probably the godfather of American comics, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1917, to Jewish immigrant parents.
		In 1942, Will Eisner was drafted into the Army and served his country by producing posters, illustrations and strips like 'Private Dogtag' and 'Joe Dope' for the education and entertainment of the troops, which appeared in publications like The Flaming Bomb, Fire Power and Army Motors.
		Will Eisner can rightly be considered as the godfather of American comics, not only for adding 'The Spirit' to the long list of brilliant American comic strips, but especially for proving that comics can match literature and are not just a dubious means of entertainment for children (as many people thought in the 1950s).
	www.lambiek.net /artists/e/eisner.htm (809 words)

	MichaelBarrier.com - Essays: Will Eisner: Moved by The Spirit
		Eisner was born in New York in 1917, the son of a Jewish immigrant from Austria; his father "actually started life as a painter; he was an artist of sorts," Eisner has said, and the young Will grew up "very interested in art," despite his practical mother’s opposition.
		Eisner has spoken of seeing lots of movies; but everybody did, in the thirties and forties, and on the whole, movies seem to have been much less important an influence on Eisner than the short stories he read so avidly.
		Eisner’s influence was felt mostly in the work of cartoonists who were employed by him at one time or another, perhaps most in the work of Jack Cole, who introduced even more comic exaggeration into his Plastic Man stories than Eisner put into his Spirit stories.
	www.michaelbarrier.com /Essays/Eisner/essay_Eisner.htm (3775 words)

	Thumbnail: Will Eisner
		Following the death of Will Eisner on January 3rd at the age of 87, Ninth Art presents another chance to read our profile of the man dubbed 'the most influential comic artist of all time', in the first part of a month-long celebration of Eisner's life and work.
		Will Eisner was born March 6th, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish Immigrant parents.
		Eisner sold his share of the business to Iger and left in 1939 to work for the Quality Comics Group, a move that would lead him one step closer to fulfilling his dream of making comics for adults.
	www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=541 (1870 words)

	ollapodrida: Will Eisner, comic-book legend, dies at 87
		MIAMI -- Will Eisner, the artist who revolutionized comic books, helped popularize the graphic novel and taught generations of soldiers how to maintain their equipment with the "Joe Dope" series, has died.
		Eisner started making comics in the 1930s and was the first to use "silent" balloonless panels to emphasize characters' emotions by focusing attention on finely wrought facial expressions.
		Eisner was drafted during World War II, and the Army had him create "Joe Dope" to teach Jeep maintenance to soldiers with a bumbling comic-strip character.
	ollapodrida.net /blog/2005/01/will-eisner-comic-book-legend-dies-at.php (578 words)

	## BadAzz MoFo ## (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		But most important, don't tell Will Eisner that comic books are for kids; because even though he's in his 80s, you're likely to have a fight on your hands.
		Will Eisner is to the comic book industry what Orson Welles was to the film industry — a maverick artist that pushed the bounds of his chosen form of expression and helped to reshape the medium.
		In the case of Eisner, his choice of expression is comics, or as he prefers, sequential.
	www.badazzmofo.com /archive/weisner.htm (2342 words)

	Floridian: An immeasurable spirit
		In May 1939, Will Eisner was hired to create an imitation of Superman called Wonder Man. He appeared in just one issue before National Comics (now DC) sued for copyright infringement and won.
		Will Eisner created the masked comic book hero "The Spirit," behind him, in 1940, and it was distributed as an insert in Sunday newspapers, like Parade magazine.
		Eisner's most recent books brought the prestige that this former resident of what he called "the comic book ghetto" had sought all his life.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/01/24/Floridian/An_immeasurable_spirit.shtml (1933 words)

	Will Eisner's hp
		Eisner explored each possibility and exhaled the use of each element of comic books: the balloon, the lettering, the caricature, the titles, the perspective, the text, the sequence, the splash page, etc. Every issue begun with a new and different logo for The Spirit, that merged with the backgrounds.
		Eisner used the 7 pages to tell human dramas, personal delusions, easy romances, stuff that happened in dailly life of any big city fellow, mixed with extraordinary situations, tipically comic book.
		Will Eisner was born in 1917, and has already passed his 80th.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/5537/Spirit.htm (696 words)

	Michael Eisner - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Eisner's role in this turnaround, and Disney's growth into one of the leading media firms, is the subject of passionate debate by many historians and Disney fans, though he is generally given the bulk of the credit for transforming Disney into a provider of entertainment.
		As criticism of Eisner intensified in the wake of the shareholder meeting, however, his position became more and more tenuous, and on March 13, 2005, Eisner announced that he would step down as CEO one year before his contract expired.
		On September 30, Eisner resigned both as an executive and as a member of the board of directors, and, severing all formal ties with the company, he waived his contractual rights to perks such as the use of a corporate jet and an office at the company's Burbank headquarters.
	www.voyager.in /Michael_Eisner (925 words)

	Will Eisner and The Spirit - A Biography and History of a Comics Legend
		Will Eisner modestly accepted several Eisner Awards over the years, as well as several Harvey Awards, the other prestigious industry award named after his close friend, the late Harvey Kurtzman.
		Will Eisner's New York will be published in hardcover in 2006, combining The Building, New York: The Big City, City People Notebook and Invisible People, with never-seen Eisner art, plus new Eisner/Poplaski art and an introduction by Neil Gaiman.
		A career-spanning art exhibit, "The Will Eisner Retrospective" opened at MOCCA (Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art) in New York City in May 2005, and travelled to galleries at Utah Valley State College (Orem, UT) and The University of Massachusetts in Amherst (2/06).
	www.deniskitchen.com /docs/bios/bio_will_eisner.html (1426 words)

	HA Interview \| Will Eisner
		Will Eisner was a cartooning visionary when the notion seemed preposterous.
		Eisner had a singular role in developing elements that have over the years become standard components of cartooning’s vocabulary: pacing, staging, perspective, plot construction, character development and the incorporation of a compellingly philosophical perspective.
		Eisner: The reason I finally agreed is that, with the death of Kitchen Sink, the possibility of The Spirit being reprinted is almost out of the question.
	www.cagle.com /hogan/interviews/eisner/home.asp (3662 words)

	Amazon.com: Comics & Sequential Art: Books: Will Eisner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Eisner provides a guide book to the "principles and practice of the world's most popular art form, and while it is of interest to those of us who read comic books it is clearly intended to be of use to aspiring comic book artists (and writers, albeit to a lesser degree).
		Eisner's work is the first true academic examination of sequential art and its potential as a medium, and was written at a time when the big revolution in comics - which he himself helped agitate more than fifteen years before - was just reaching its crucial stages.
		Will Eisner was a great, but a great of a very different era and as such he has very little relevance visually to the world of comics today.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0961472812?v=glance (2476 words)

	R.I.P. Will Eisner \| MetaFilter
		Eisner is generally credited with both inventing the term "graphic novel" and with evangelizing the concept.
		While Will influenced several generations of cartoonists and graphic artists he actually had the opposite effect on me. For me his work was at such a high level that I set the bar at that level and judge everything else to it.
		Will Eisner hasn't had as much of an influence on me as, say, Carl Barks, but this post came as a shock nonetheless.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/38336 (2308 words)

	Comic Book Resources - CBR News - The Comic Wire
		Eisner was often referred to within the industry as a living legend, his body of work having influence over generations of creators and revered for his spirit and ingenuity.
		Will Eisner, the great American master of comic art for whom the comic industry's Eisner Awards are named, died late Monday night, January 3, 2005, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
		Eisner's contributions to Wow, What a Magazine were published when he was still a teenager in 1936 and he was at the forefront of the birth of the comic book industry in the 1930s.
	www.comicbookresources.com /news/newsitem.cgi?id=4627 (3035 words)

	Mars Import - Creator
		Will Eisner is one of the few living masters of comic art.
		Eisner's style had aged, but the looser drawing and absence of panel borders work to his advantage in telling an emotional tale of life amongst the Jews and gentiles in New York City.
		Eisner's other major contribution has been his status as an authority on how to tell a story, as outlined in his seminal study, Comics and Sequential Art, which Scott McCloud named as the major influence on Understanding Comics.
	www.marsimport.com /display_creator?ID=551 (599 words)

	Will Eisner Dies; Drew 'The Spirit' Comic Strip (washingtonpost.com)
		Eisner left the business to accept an offer by the Quality Comics Group to be part of a massive and novel effort to produce an insert newspaper supplement built around comics.
		Eisner was drafted into the Army during World War II and left the strip in other hands.
		Eisner began to work in the 1970s on the book that became "A Contract With God." With their Depression-era Bronx setting, the minimalist fl-and-white illustrations were filled with death, sadness and mature sexual themes.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A48732-2005Jan4.html (1145 words)

	news from me - ARCHIVES
		Will Eisner, R.I.P. Above, we see two views of Will Eisner in his natural habitat: At the drawing board, and probably producing one of the most innovative pieces of comic art of its day.
		Eisner, who died Monday evening due to complications following his recent heart surgery, was one of the most important architects of the American comic book...a medium that took life and form about the time he got into it.
		Will was among the most envied craftsman in his field...admired for both his skill as a writer and artist but also for having a certain business acumen.
	www.newsfromme.com /archives/2005_01_04.html (1003 words)

	The Eisner Awards FAQ
		The Eisner Awards are named for renowned cartoonist Will Eisner (creator of "The Spirit" and several award-winning graphic novels), who always attends the ceremony to personally hand the trophies to the winners.
		The Eisner Awards, established in 1987, came under the auspices of the San Diego Comic Convention, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, in 1990.
		So I set out to gather a group of five people who (a) were highly knowledgeable and well read in comics, (b) would be unbiased in their approach, and (c) represented various facets of the comics industry, from creators to retailers to fans.
	www.comic-con.org /cci/cci_eisnersfaq.shtml (1203 words)

	Will Eisner: Tutte le informazioni su Will Eisner su Encyclopedia.it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Will Eisner: Tutte le informazioni su Will Eisner su Encyclopedia.it
		Nel 1978, però, Eisner si rimette in gioco, rinnovando il suo stile, con Contratto con Dio, che inaugura un nuovo modo di fare fumetto: la graphic novel, il moderno romanzo a fumetti.
		Graphic Novels di Will Eisner tradotte in italiano
	www.encyclopedia.it /w/wi/will_eisner.html (168 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Comic book pioneer Eisner is dead
		Eisner started to draw and write comics in the 1930s as a teenager.
		Drafted into the US Army in 1942, Eisner was asked to create Joe Dope, a bumbling comic-strip character who showed soldiers how to maintain their vehicles.
		After the war Eisner returned to The Spirit, which he said was not aimed at a traditional teenage readership but "a 55-year-old who had his wallet stolen on the subway".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/4148365.stm (305 words)

	Will Eisner: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Will Eisner has been a pioneering force in comics for over sixty years.
		The son of Jewish immigrants, his early life and experiences growing up in New York tenements would become the inspiration for much of his graphic novel work.
		At De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx, Eisner's budding interest in art was fostered, and it was in the school newspaper that his first work was published.
	willeisner.tripod.com /bio/index.html (99 words)

	WILL EISNER: A SPIRITED LIFE Authorized Biography by Bob Andelman
		Will Eisner: A Spirited Life is the only authorized and extensively researched biography of Eisner over three years in the making.
		Eisner spearheaded the cause of comics for adult readers (including 30 years spent producing comics for the U.S. Army and corporate clients such as General Motors and the United Nations) and in 1978 published the first widely recognized graphic novel, A Contract With God.
		Will Eisner's Hawks of the Seas HC In 1936, a 20-year-old artist using the name Willis B. Rensie jump-started the comic-book medium.
	www.aspiritedlife.com (1422 words)

	Wildwood Cemetery: The Spirit Database
		Will Eisner was a true pioneer of the medium.
		Will Eisner's John Law is now available to order in signed hardcover, plus there are a lot of cool John Law items available to purchase.
		Plus updates on Will Eisner graphic novels, and Books about comics, or other comic strips and Will Eisner and Spirit collectables on the bookshop pages.
	www.angelfire.com /art/wildwood (1273 words)

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