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€ Will Eisner in the News € Will Eisner Links WILL EISNER IN THE NEWS ³Every Picture Tells A Story: His Pen and Wit Sharper Than Ever, Graphic Novelist Will Eisner Takes On Religious Intolerance² By Paul E. Fitzgerald Special to The Washington Post June 3, 2004 Since his Depression-era days in New York's boiler-room comic strip factories, Will Eisner has pushed the limits of art as storytelling device. He's best known as the trailblazing "grandfather" of the graphic novel, an increasingly popular genre that Eisner says "gives literary creativity the kind of boundless, anarchic freedom enjoyed by musicians in jazz." Now, late in his ninth decade -- he turned 87 on March 6 -- Eisner has startled his fans and rattled his friends by kicking the sides out of any boxes people try to cram him and his ideas into. He is surprised anybody should be surprised. Read the rest of the story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11308-2004Jun2.html ³Stories of living in an urban space: Comic book with autobiographical edge² By Subhajit Banerjee The Telegraph, Calcutta, India April 19, 2004 He¹s not the guy-next-door who¹s just come out with this new book (India¹s ³first graphic novel² no less). Sarnath Banerjee, author of Corridor , is a lot leaner, meaner and deeper, if you please, with long hair, moustache-less pointy beard and dollops of in-your-face attitude. Read the rest of the story: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040419/asp/calcutta/story_3139842.asp ³Comic Capers² The Telegraph, Calcutta, India April 24, 2004 Students of Jadavpur University were treated to a presentation on graphic novels and Will Eisner on Thursday. Eisner, as described by Œcomicist¹ Sarnath Banerjee who made the presentation, may be called the ³uncle of the graphic novel². At the event, held in the department of English, Banerjee talked about and showed slides from the works of Eisner, including A Contract With God ‹ his most well-known work ‹ and Jacques Tardi, a French comics creator. Read the rest of the story: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040424/asp/calcutta/story_3163944.asp ³Comic, Dead Serious: A novel twist to the world of images. Now in India, as a genre-blurring trend.² Outlook India By Samit Basu May 3, 2004 A new term's booked space in the dictionary of Indo-Anglian fiction: the graphic novel‹i.e. a novel-length comic book that aims to be "serious literature". Sarnath Banerjee's Corridor, currently making waves in literary circles, is the first example of a mainstream publishing house testing the waters for the medium in India and thus joining the $100-million global market. The term graphic novel was coined by Will Eisner, a writer trying to persuade his publisher that his book (1978 classic, A Contract With God), was no ordinary comic book. But graphic novels were thrust into the literary limelight only in 1992, when Art Spiegelman's Maus, an Animal Farm -like take on the Holocaust, won the Pulitzer. Read the rest of the story: http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20040503&fname=Comics+(F)&sid=1 ³Will Eisner: Moved by The Spirit² www.MichaelBarrier.com By Michael Barrier Their first pages tell us that these are not ordinary comic-book stories. Here is one from 1949, for example. In the first panel, a masked man addresses us directly. He may seem to be just one more of the fictional vigilantes who flourished in that decade, in radio, movies, and, especially, comic books. He identifies himself as a crimefighter, in pursuit of a bond thief, and he tells us in the second panel that he is waiting one gloomy evening "at the entrance to the Central Building on Wafer Street." But then the third panel arrives‹so large that it fills almost two thirds of the page‹and it shows us a striking piece of architecture indeed. Seen from an aerial vantage point, the Central Building appears broken into six sections, ten to twelve stories high‹each section a letter of the alphabet, each a full block deep. Smaller letters‹"THE"‹cling perilously to the upper left corner of the building¹s facade, a fire escape dangling beneath them. On the right, the bar of a "T" forms a sort of penthouse, cantilevered over the street. The entrance to the building is in fact the gaping hole left beneath the curve of a "P" as it pushes against an "I." Everything‹windows, bricks, superstructures, even a television antenna‹is in place on this preposterous but ever-so-solid structure. Read the rest of the story: http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Essays/Eisner/essay_Eisner.htm If you¹d like to subscribe to Will Eisner: A Spirited Life eNewsletter, send an e-mail to subscribe@aspiritedlife.com |