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 (Photo by Pete Eisner) eNewsletter No. 8 Author, Will Eisner: A Spirited Life
€ ³Will Eisner: A Spirited Life² Book Update! € ³The Spirit² Movie Update! € Library of Congress News! € Museum Retrospective in the Works! € Will Eisner¹s Personal Appearances € Will Eisner on Internet Radio € Will Eisner in the News € Will Eisner Links WILL EISNER: A SPIRITED LIFE BOOK UPDATE! The manuscript is finally done and in the hands of Dark Horse Editor Diana Schutz. Cover design discussions are advancing, too, so we may have something to show before too long. And by fall, I hope to launch the companion web site for the book. It¹ll be a place to sign up for the newsletter, catch up on newsletters you¹ve missed, see rare Eisner photos and art, plus order Eisner and Andelman books and merchandise. ³THE SPIRIT² MOVIE UPDATE Odd Lot Takes The Spirit Rights Superherohype.com USA Rights to Will Eisner comic-book The Spirit have been purchased by financier Odd Lot Entertainment, which is planning a live-action feature adaptation, reports Variety. Odd Lot's Gigi Pritzker and Deborah Del Prete will produce along with Batfilm's Michael Uslan, who is an executive producer on Batman Begins and Constantine. Created in 1940, The Spirit is the story of a detective who thwarts an attempt to release a substance that will leave the inhabitants of Central City in suspended animation. He is exposed to the goo, giving him the ability to withstand any beating. He battles crime and a slew of femme fatales. http://superherohype.com/index.php?id=1773> WHAT IS ODD LOT ENTERTAINMENT? WIP gives its all to 'Fifty Percent' By Liza Foreman Hollywood Reporter June 30, 2004 Warner Independent Pictures is in for "Fifty Percent." Warners' specialty film arm is developing the dark comedy with producers Steven Haft and Odd Lot Entertainment's Deborah Del Prete and Gigi Pritzker. Writer Darin Mark is on board to pen the script, which follows three waitresses who agree to marry for money, get divorced and take 50% of each man's net worth so they can start their real lives on a tropical island. Five years later, one woman is ready to cash out whether the other girls are in or not. Michael Andreen and Tracey Bing are overseeing for WIP. Haft's recent credits include "Eulogy," "The Singing Detective," "Tigerland" and "Beautiful Joe." Odd Lot Entertainment's other projects include "The Reckoning" and "Hooligans." WIP's upcoming titles include "A Scanner Darkly," "One Thing Always," "The Bielski Brothers" and "Brideshead Revisited," the feature film version of the British TV classic. Mark is repped by Endeavor, Benderspink and Gregg Gellman and Michael Fuller at Barnes, Morris, Klein, Mark, Yorn, Barnes and Levine. <http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/film/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000556823 WILL EISNER IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS! The Library of Congress recently asked Will Eisner to donate some of his original art for its permanent collection. He sent an 8-page story from City People Notebook entitled ³Collisions.² WILL EISNER MUSEUM RETROSPECTIVE IN THE WORKS! Denis Kitchen, Will Eisner¹s art agent and co-literary agent (with Judy Hansen), is preparing a museum retrospective of Eisner¹s work for sometime in 2005. Details will be forthcoming soon. WILL EISNER ON INTERNET RADIO ³Comic Zone Radio² Listen to Will Eisner on ³Comic Zone Radio,² interviewed by Victor Zurzolo and recorded the week of the 2004 San Diego Comic-Con International. (The show also features June Foray.) http://www.worldtalkradio.com/archives.asp?sid=68 WILL EISNER IN THE NEWS Capturing the imagination By Marcia Freidenreich Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel July 18 2004 The diverse sprinkling of age groups among the audience at the Comic Book Mania event at Nova Southeastern University offered a hint that comics will continue enthralling readers of all ages for as long as one can foresee. Tamarac's Will Eisner, the featured speaker at the event in the Davie university's Alvin Sherman Library, Research and Information Technology Center, discussed his career in the comic book industry and his role as a pioneer of the graphic novel -- a narrative discussing serious issues that is written in comic book form. Read the rest of the story: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-cw18comicjul18,0,3124229.story?coll=sfla-news-broward Guru of graphic novel talks literature By Yvonne Carey Miami Herald (Requires Registration) A resurgence of interest in superhero comics as literature drove Dante Tang, Nova Southeastern University's young adult librarian, to bring in the granddaddy of the graphic novel, Will Eisner, to discuss its evolution. The July 10 event drew more than 75 people interested in cutting-edge Japanese animé/manga comics and the famous man who coined the term ''graphic novel,'' raising the bar on comic book text and value by giving it a name. Read the rest of the story: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/cities_neighborhoods/cooper_city/9177382.htm If you¹d like to subscribe to Will Eisner: A Spirited Life eNewsletter, send an e-mail to subscribe@aspiritedlife.com |