MetaFilter posts tagged with willeisner

A contract with US Gov.

Artw — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:29:09 -0800

The usual summary of comic book artist Will Eisner’s career follows the formula that he drew the Spirit all through the 1940s except for the war years and a bunch of ‘graphic novels’ from 1978 till the end of his life in 2005. There’s a long missing period between 1951 and 1978 during which he packaged and adapted cartoon art to commercial purposes, which has not been readily available for our scrutiny or pleasure. It is sometimes summarily dismissed as being of little interest. - Artist Eddie Campbell reappraises Will Eisner's missing years.

Kirby with Ducks, goddamit!

Artw — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:20:32 -0800

21 artists who changed mainstream comics (for better or worse)

Government Comix--more exciting than it sounds...

Tesseractive — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:23:31 -0800

After two years of work of collecting, scanning, and tagging, the Government Comics Collection at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln library has gone live. This digital collection features "comic books affiliated with state and federal U.S. government agencies, as well as the UN and the EU (and a couple from Canada and one from Ghana)" and includes comics and art by Will Eisner, Scott Adams, Hank Ketcham ("Dennis the Menace Takes a Poke at Poison"), and more. Found via the University of Florida Comix Scholars listserv, which is unfortunately not archived and searchable at this time.

Batman=smart, Superman=superpowerful

braun_richard — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:45:10 -0800

Today's weird correction from the NY Times (reg required, of course). More fuel for the old "who would win in a fight, Superman or Batman?" debate.

R.I.P. Will Eisner

Jeffy — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 07:23:29 -0800

Will Eisner Dies at age 86 The father of the modern Graphic Novel and hugely influential comics figure has died today from heart surgery complications. His concept of Sequential Art helped move comics out of the idea of being solely "kid's stuff" and was seen as a cannon in the comic art world. He was working on a book called "The Plot" due out later this year. He will be missed. More info and Eisner Bio at Newsarama