He clearly showed us how everybody is trying to get to a higher part of the pyramid built by society. He intrigued us into pondering about humanity in a unique, not unpleasant, form. Like Eisner said earlier, making comic/strips is about "having something to say" - and that's what he really did. A couple of stories could make my eyes warm or my heart skip a beat. What really amazed me is that an arrangement of comical figures, random sceneries and a few words (or none at all) could actually bring up the sensitivity in me. Although most of the stories are ironic, there are plenty of affectionate tales as well.Īll visuals are done without vulgarity, yet honest. I was far from considering it as most comic books that are full of fantasies. My first impression is that it's actually a compilation of real-life fragments: sketches of daily struggle. Scenes of apartments and public housing, busy streets and their elements - mail boxes, sewers, garbage bins and all - become the back- and foregrounds of the stories.
New York City and all kinds of its inhabitants are thoroughly captured by Eisner in this book. In 2002, Eisner received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Federation for Jewish Culture, presented by Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman. Wizard magazine named Eisner "the most influential comic artist of all time." Michael Chabon's Pulitzer-prize winning novel "Kavalier and Clay" is based in good part on Eisner. The Eisners are presented annually before a packed ballroom at San Diego Comic-Con, America's largest comics convention. The "Oscars" of the Comic Industry are called The Eisner Awards, and named after Will Eisner. This was followed by almost 20 additional graphic novels over the following 25 years.
In 1978, Will Eisner wrote "A Contract with God," the first modern Graphic Novel. The textbooks that he wrote were based on his course and are still bestsellers. Will Eisner taught Sequential Art at the New York School of Visual Arts for 20 years. After the war this continued as the Army's "PS Magazine" which is still being produced today. Mystic, Uncle Sam, Blackhawk, Sheena, and countless others.ĭuring World War II, Will Eisner used the comic format to develop training and equipment maintenance manuals for the US Army. In a career that spanned nearly eight decades - from the dawn of the comic book to the advent of digital comics - Will Eisner was truly the 'Father of the Graphic Novel' and the 'Orson Welles of Comics.' He broke new ground in the development of visual narrative and the language of comics and was the creator of The Spirit, John Law, Lady Luck, Mr. By the time of his death on January 3, 2005, Will Eisner was recognized internationally as one of the giants in the field of sequential art, a term he coined. Will Eisner was born on Main Brooklyn, New York.
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