Will Eisner [electronic resource] : conversations / edited by M. Thomas Inge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eisner, Will.

Inge, M. Thomas.

Series:

Conversations with comic artists.

Conversations with comic artists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartoonists--United States--Interviews.

Cartoonists.

Eisner, Will--Interviews.

Eisner, Will.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Will Eisner's innovations in the comics, especially the comic book and the graphic novel, as well as his devotion to comics analysis, make him one of comics' first true auteurs and the cartoonist so revered and influential that cartooning's highest honor is named after him. His newspaper feature The Spirit (1940-1952) introduced the now-common splash page to the comic book, as well as dramatic angles and lighting effects that were influenced by, and influenced in turn, the conventions of film noir. Even in his tales of crime fighting, Eisner's writing focused on everyday details of city life a

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chronology; The Only Real Middle-Class Crimefighter; Having Something to Say; Will Eisner: Before the Comics; An Interview with Will Eisner; An Interview with Will Eisner; Will Eisner Interview; A Talk with Will Eisner; Will Eisner; Mastering the Form: An Interview with Will Eisner; A Cartoonist's Cartoonist; Getting the Last Laugh: My Life in Comics; Will Eisner: The Old Man on the Mountain; Night of the Paper Noir; Will Eisner's Vision and the Future of the Comics; Interview: Will Eisner; Eisner Wide Open; The Spirit of Comics! The Will Eisner Interview

Auteur TheoryIndex

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-283-27514-7

9786613275141

1-61703-128-3

OCLC:

756708281