Will Eisner: Conversations Edited by M. Thomas Inge

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The man the Eisner Award is named for — in his own words. Will Eisner: Conversations collects the best of nearly forty years of interviews with one of the true giants of American comics, the artist so revered that cartooning’s highest honor bears his name.

Edited by comics scholar M. Thomas Inge for the University Press of Mississippi’s Conversations with Comic Artists series, this volume gathers Eisner’s most revealing conversations from 1965 to 2004. Across them, Eisner (1917–2005) looks back on a career that reshaped the medium: his 1940s newspaper feature The Spirit, which brought the splash page and film-noir lighting into comics; A Contract with God, the realist stories that helped launch the modern graphic novel; and Comics and Sequential Art, among the first serious studies of how comics work.

Candid and opinionated on storytelling, city life, and social issues — and mentor to future legends like Jules Feiffer — this is the closest thing to a master class from one of comics’ first true auteurs.

Will Eisner: Conversations collects the best of nearly forty years of interviews with one of the true giants of American comics — the artist so revered that cartooning’s highest honor, the Eisner Award, bears his name.

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Edited by comics scholar M. Thomas Inge for the University Press of Mississippi’s Conversations with Comic Artists series, this volume gathers Eisner’s most revealing conversations from 1965 to 2004. Across these interviews, Eisner (1917–2005) looks back on a career that reshaped the medium: his 1940s newspaper feature The Spirit, which brought the splash page and film-noir lighting into comics; A Contract with God, the realist cartoon stories that helped launch the modern graphic novel; and Comics and Sequential Art, among the first serious studies of how comics work.

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Candid and opinionated, Eisner talks about storytelling, city life, social issues, and the educational power of the medium — the concerns that ran through everything he drew. His studio, meanwhile, nurtured future legends like Jules Feiffer, Wally Wood, and Jack Cole.

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For comics readers, students, and working artists, this is the closest thing to a master class from one of comics’ first true auteurs, in his own words.