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 (Photo by Pete Eisner) eNewsletter No. 2 Author, Will Eisner: A Spirited Life
Sudakoff Auditorium New College Campus MARCH 17, 2004, 7 p.m. http://www.rsad.edu/diversity/ Will Eisner is scheduled to speak at the Sudakoff Auditorium on the New College Campus at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 17. The public is encouraged to attend this event, admission is free. Will Eisner - It is impossible to underestimate the importance of Will Eisner to the last 70 years of the graphic narrative. In the late 1930s, Will was the creative end of the Eisner/Iger Studios, the most important studio producing content for the first comic books. He is one of the founders of the genre, and from the 1930s onward, one of the most respected graphic narrators in the field. He is widely respected for a number of features he originated including The Spirit a comic book short story anthology that was published as an newspaper insert. During WWII Eisner served in the Army designing and writing a new generation of training materials, becoming one of the founders of the field of narrative educational graphics. He continued this work after the war and, while working on various educational projects, he became convinced that more extended graphic narratives (what he was to call the "graphic novel") could become a viable literary form. He is considered the founder of the contemporary American graphic novel. Will's work has always contained the theme of prejudice and most of his work has been marked by a consistent interest in social issues. Most recently, he has explored the stereotypes of Judaism in his book Fagin the Jew. As a sign of Eisner's importance to the comics, it is notable that while the top award for film is the Oscar, and for T.V. it is the Emmy, in the medium of the comic book, the top award is called the Eisner. If you¹d like to subscribe to Will Eisner: A Spirited Life eNewsletter, send an e-mail to subscribe@aspiritedlife.com |