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Will Eisner in general

Description: Author: Will Eisner

Newest Review: ... ent of madness at the loss of his dog, he gives chase. Naturally the neighbours assume he is a thug attacking a ten-year-old girl and call the police. Scuggs, unable to live with the injustice against him, shoots himself. This is a kind of Beauty and the Beast parable in which the beauty isn't quite so beautiful and the beast is not quite so bad. Eisner has written several ... more

... books of this sort, collections of short stories tied into a central theme or framework. These include INVISIBLE PEOPLE and MINOR MIRACLES. He also produced several series of vignettes, very short observational pieces on life and people including THE C...more

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Will Eisner in general: The Leonardo of Sequential Art (1414 words)
by - written on 10/07/01 (Very useful, 33 readings)
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Where do you start writing about someone like Will Eisner? Well, he was born in 1917, studied painting and anatomy before finding his vocation as a cartoonist during the Depression era days of 1930s America. As well as working as a publisher, advertiser and illustrator, he also created THE SPIRIT, a weekly newspaper comic book insert. By 1952 he was specialising in educational comics. He spent 20 years producing technical manuals using the comic book form that were successfully published by the United States Army. In the 1970s he returned to comics 'proper' and produced what is widely regarded as the first of the modern era graphic novels, A CONTRACT WITH ... Read the complete review

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