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unusual facts about Eisner



100 Bullets

The series won the 2002 Harvey Awards for Best Writer, Best Artist and Best Continuing Series, and the 2003 Harvey Award for Best Artist, as well as the 2001 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story, and the 2002 and 2004 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series.

A Contract with God

Eisner's status as a cartoonist grew after A Contract with God appeared, and his influence was augmented by his time as a teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he expounded his theories of the medium.

Alexey Eisner

After the October Revolution of 1917, his stepfather brought the young Eisner to the Princes' Islands.

Eisner joined the literary association of Russian émigrés in Prague.

Eisner graduated from the Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich Russian Cadets Corps in Sarajevo.

Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley

Arco-Valley might have decided to kill Eisner to prove himself "worthy" after he had been rejected for membership of an ultra-nationalist group, the Thule Society, because he was partly of Jewish descent.

Asaf Hanuka

Asaf and Tomer co-created Bipolar, an experimental comic book series which gained them nominations for the Eisner, Harvey and Ignatz awards.

Bertold Eisner

In the mid 1900, due to financial difficulties, Eisner moved to Bosnia and Herzegovina where he worked at the Travnik, Jajce, Prijedor and Ključ courts of law.

Betty Eisner

Eisner conducted psychotherapy research, first with Sidney Cohen at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital Veterans Administration Center in Los Angeles and, later, from her private practice in Los Angeles.

Comic Book Artist

The Will Eisner Comics Industry Award ("The Eisner") for "Best Comics-Related Periodical" 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005

Comics and Sequential Art

It is based on a series of essays that appeared in The Spirit magazine, themselves based on Eisner's experience teaching a course in sequential art at the School of Visual Arts.

Ebony White

In a 1966 New York Herald Tribune feature by his former office manager-turned-journalist, Marilyn Mercer claimed, "Ebony never drew criticism from Negro groups (in fact, Eisner was commended by some for using him), perhaps because, although his speech pattern was early Minstrel Show, he himself derived from another literary tradition: he was a combination of Tom Sawyer and Penrod, with a touch of Horatio Alger hero, and color didn't really come into it".

In reference to his graphic novel Fagin the Jew, Eisner acknowledged parallels between Charles Dickens' use of racial stereotyping for that character (which Eisner criticized) and Eisner's own portrayal of White, but asserted that his own work had not "capitalized on" the stereotype.

Elliot W. Eisner

Louis Eisner's union activity provided him an opportunity to meet Eugene Debs at a Socialist convention for his campaign for the Election of 1920.

Eric Eisner

Eisner started his entertainment career in sports, working for the NHL team, the Anaheim (Mighty) Ducks.

Gene Luen Yang

In 2009, Yang was awarded another Eisner Award for best short story for his collaborative work The Eternal Smile which he wrote and Derek Kirk Kim illustrated.

George W. C. Baker

Baker attended Lincoln Grammar and Hayes Valley Grammar schools in San Francisco and graduated from Commercial High School in that city; he then did four years of legal study with the firm of Frank and Eisner, also in San Francisco.

Jane Eisner

Eisner received a master's degree from Columbia University's School of Journalism and graduated from Wesleyan University cum laude in 1977, where she was the first female editor of the college newspaper and was a member of the board of trustees.

Life force

A Life Force, the second volume in Will Eisner's A Contract with God trilogy about the New York Jewish community in the 1930s and 1940s

Lotte H. Eisner

Lotte H. Eisner (5 March 1896 – 25 November 1983, Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris) was a German-French film critic, historian, writer and poet.

Matt Peckham

Peckham also edits and maintains the official site of Eisner-nominated British writer Mike Carey and American artist/writer Peter Gross, which includes his annotations to Carey and Gross' Vertigo (DC Comics) comic The Unwritten.

Robert Eisner

Following his death, the Roycemore School of Evanston established the Robert Eisner Distinguished Scholar Program in his memory.

Seva Call

Investors include fortify.vc, Ed Mathias of The Carlyle Group, Timothy Sykes, David Eisner, Jay Virdy, Paul Silber, David Krauskopf, founding members of Blu Venture Investors, and several members from The University of Maryland's Dingman Angels Network.

Sigmund Eisner

Monroe Eisner, the third son, was also born in Red Bank, entered Phillips Exeter Academy (graduated 1910) and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard in 1914.

The Return of the Shaggy Dog

In keeping with the tradition that Walt Disney introduced films, Return of the Shaggy Dog was introduced by Disney CEO Michael Eisner, who attempts to invoke the transformation on Wilby, but when Eisner states the words, he has passed on the curse from Wilby to himself.

Tony Akins

Jack of Fables is the spin-off title from writer Bill Willingham's multiple Eisner Award-winning series, Fables.

Violent Messiahs

Book of Job has been nominated for three awards the Harvey Award, the Wizard Fan Award, and the Eisner's Russ Manning Award.

Walt Disney: One Man's Dream

The film was originally hosted by Michael Eisner, but after Eisner stepped down as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, Disney Legend Julie Andrews narrated the film.


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