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F.J. DeSanto on Will Eisner

Mike Phillips — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 22:00:31 +0000

I was speaking with director (and Sequart alum) Patrick Meaney about our Will Eisner Week plans, and he said, “You guys should hit up [Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods and Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts executive… [more]

Making Love the Will Eisner Way: Intercourse Discourse in A Contract with God

Desmond White — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 18:00:15 +0000

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The Long Influence of Will Eisner

Harry Edmundson-Cornell — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 12:00:42 +0000

In any medium there are great, influential works that no one actually partakes of. In film this mantle falls on the shoulders of directors like Carl Theodor Dreyer, Fritz Lang, and Abel Gance. They made… [more]

Writing About Comics the Will Eisner Way

Scott Cederlund — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:00:44 +0000

In 1985, decades after his first comic book, Will Eisner wrote Comics and Sequential Art, his treatise about how comic books work. The first of three books (Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative and Expressive Anatomy… [more]

A Brief History of the Spirit

Will Murray — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:00:39 +0000

Many articles have been written about The Spirit, but the best man to recount his origins was his creator. “When we started,” Will Eisner told The Comics Journal in one of the many interviews he… [more]

Sing Me a Sweet Song: Eisner’s Tragic Love Triangle

Stuart Warren — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 18:00:01 +0000

The lamentable times we find ourselves in are rife with class disparity and injustice. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and cheap, ambling diatribes against these injuries grow more and more cliché. The… [more]

Will Eisner and the Ethics of Care

Jaime Infante Ramírez — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:00:09 +0000

Remembering Will Eisner – and borrowing from Michael Chabon – Art Spiegelman said that the Jews have always been known as the People of the Book, but now they were also the People of the… [more]

“A Will Eisner Reader”: Your Introduction to a Master

Ian Dawe — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 12:00:11 +0000

To me, he’s always “Mr Eisner”. I’m sure he would have told me to call him “Will”, but something in my upbringing would have prevented me from being so informal. He could just as easily… [more]

Frimme and His God: Eisner’s Meditations on Suffering

Stuart Warren — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:00:57 +0000

Will Eisner, like Walt Disney or Orson Welles, is a household name in his field of expertise. He pioneered his work with such love and dedication that few have contested his reputation as the man… [more]

To the Heart of Will Eisner

Greg Carpenter — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 12:00:27 +0000

Some of you may remember that back in January, when I first started writing this weekly column, we conducted a poll of Sequart contributors who ranked the greatest works and most important creators in comics… [more]

It’s Will Eisner Week!

Julian Darius — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:00:17 +0000

This week is the sixth annual Will Eisner Week, in which the Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation helps organize events promoting the late and legendary comics creator, as well as the comics medium and free… [more]