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8 unusual facts about Will Eisner


Bill Schelly

By the end of its 12-issue run, Sense of Wonder had presented the first attempt to chronicle the whole career of comics innovator Will Eisner, as well as work by Steve Ditko, Frank Frazetta and Stanley Pitt.

Comics and Sequential Art

Comics and Sequential Art is a 1985 book by American cartoonist Will Eisner that provides an analytical overview of comics.

Gianfranco Goria

He is the editor of the Italian editions of important essays about comic art by Scott McCloud, Will Eisner and Benoit Peeters.

Glen David Gold

Gold has also ventured into comic books, writing a short story featuring Will Eisner's classic creation The Spirit.

Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative

Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative is a 1996 book by American cartoonist Will Eisner that provides an formal overview of comics.

Katherine Collins

It featured interviews with some of cartooning's greatest names, including Milton Caniff, Hal Foster (his last interview), Floyd Gottfredson, Hugo Pratt, Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer, and Russ Manning.

Sam J. Jones

In 1987, he played the lead role in an adaptation of Will Eisner's comics character The Spirit.

Sunday comics

These sixteen-page (later 8 page) standalone Sunday supplements of Will Eisner's character were included with newspapers from 1940 through 1952.


Comic Book Confidential

The film includes profiles of twenty-two notable and influential talents in the comics field, such as Charles Burns, Art Spiegelman, Françoise Mouly, Frank Miller, Stan Lee, Will Eisner, Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar and William M. Gaines.

Fred Schwab

In 1948, Schwab drew in a more adventure-oriented vein when he began ghosting for Klaus Nordling on the lighthearted adventure feature "Lady Luck", which originated in Will Eisner's syndicated Sunday-newspaper comic-book insert, The Spirit Section.

Gary Chaloner

He is the writer/artist of Will Eisner's John Law, Red Kelso, The Jackaroo, Flash Damingo, Morton Stone: Undertaker (with Ashley Wood and Ben Templesmith) and "Planet of the Apes: Urchak's Folly" (with Dillon Naylor and Greg Gates).

Understanding Comics

Understanding Comics received praise from notable comic and graphic novel authors such as Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Garry Trudeau (who reviewed the book for the New York Times), and was called "one of the most insightful books about designing graphic user interfaces ever written" by Apple Macintosh co-creator Andy Hertzfeld.


see also

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