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€ John Law Returns to Print at IDW € Eisner/Miller Shipping This Month € Eisner Contributes to Cockrum Tribute Book € Will Eisner in the News € Will Eisner Links JOHN LAW RETURNS TO PRINT: This is not The Spirit. This is not Sin City. It's John Law. And Crossroads, USA. Comics master Will Eisner has contracted award-winning writer/artist Gary Chaloner to develop all-new adventures featuring the pipe-smoking, one-eyed Crossroads cop. These stories, the first original John Law adventures since Eisner worked on the character in 1948, will be available in print exclusively from IDW in June. The launching of the John Law series by Gary Chaloner represents a very important episode in my career, Eisner said. After all, it is most unusual for a character created so long ago to be given new life in the hands of someone so able as Gary. As well as Law, classic Eisner creations Lady Luck, Mr Mystic and Nubbin the Shoe Shine Boy feature in these all new adventures. What can readers expect from the new John Law? ³Well, we've started from scratch really, building the main characters, supporting cast and the city of Crossroads from the ground up, using the basics established by Will back in the '40s. I've introduced quite a few new characters for the series as well, ² Chaloner said. ³The earlier stories Will produced featuring Law were eventually used as Spirit stories, so the characters have a muddy past that needed to be cleaned up, ² he continues. ³Will was quite adamant that he wanted the character moved away from any resemblance to Denny Colt and 'The Spirit' series. ² The new stories do have familiar elements: corrupt cops, gangsters, sexy femme fatales and movie stars, corrupt winners and desperate losers... but mainly the series is about friendship and the things one man has to do to survive and stay true to himself in a dishonest town. Hopefully the mix will make for entertaining and human stories with a few surprises thrown in from left field. The IDW edition will have over a hundred pages of new material and will also include 25 pages of classic John Law tales by Will Eisner himself. These stories have been lovingly re-toned by Chaloner to capture the full noir-stylings of Eisner, the comics master. John Law: Dead Man Walking is a 128 page, black and white trade paperback with a cover price of $19.99. Read more: http://www.idwpublishing.com/ EISNER/MILLER SHIPPING THIS MONTH ³Eisner/Miller is a surprisingly contentious exchange,² says Editor Charles Brownstein. ³While there is unquestionable respect between these two men, they have very heated exchanges about the history of the business, censorship, and their approaches to their jobs. Within this discussion we get a sense of what drives them both and of the forces that have driven the field since its inception.² Read the rest of the story: http://darkhorse.com/news/pressrelease.php?id=928 EISNER CONTRIBUTES TO COCKRUM TRIBUTE by Jonah Weiland, Comic Book Resources ³In addition to the names already mentioned in press releases and in Torres' column, the list of contributors to this anthology has grown. New contributors include Will Eisner, Joe Kubert, Joe Quesada, possibly Bernie Wrightson, Jim Lee and Marie Severin and there's even a possibility that work by Frank Frazetta may grace those pages.² Read the rest of the story: http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=3471 WILL EISNER IN THE NEWS The Graphic Storytelling Master: A Will Eisner Interview by Andrea Plazzi and the Comics Code boys ³This interview has been conducted on the phone on February 2nd, 2004, in the Radio Città del Capo studios, Bologna (Italy). Special thanks to Paolo Noto for sound-engineering and the Eisner-philia; to Radio Città del Capo's editor-in-chief Giovanni Dognini for comic-philia and support.² Read the rest of the story: http://www.comicscode.net/interviews/eisner/indexen.htm Better Late Than Never, Kid! The Main Event, Scoop ³Trained by the likes of Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman, encouraged by Marie Severin, you'd think that a talented artist like Mark Sparacio would have gone straight to work in the four-color industry. It didn't happen. He developed a whole other career for almost twenty years before returning to the art form he loved. But he couldn't ignore the call of comics.² Read the rest of the story: http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/scoop_article.asp?ai=4838&si=124 Q & A: Diana Schutz ‹ by Tim O¹Shea, Silver Bullet Comic Books ³Diana Schutz has a rather modest bio in the back pages of AutobioGraphix: ³Diana Schutz is a senior editor at Dark Horse Comics and an adjunct instructor of comics history and criticism at Portland Community College.² The top storytellers that respect and work with her on a continual basis clearly speaks to how skilled an editor she is, if you consider the long list includes Frank Miller, Matt Wagner, Will Eisner, Sergio Aragonés, Stan Sakai, Paul Chadwick, Paul Hornschemeier, Linda Medley and Eddie Campbell. And her editorial skills were yet again recognized this past week, when the 2004 Eisner nominations were unveiled and included a Best Anthology nomination for AutobioGraphix, which was edited by Schutz.² Read the rest of the story: http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/news/108173660264512.htm If you¹d like to subscribe to Will Eisner: A Spirited Life eNewsletter, send an e-mail to subscribe@aspiritedlife.com |