The work of Will Eisner – whose newspaper series The Spirit has influenced and inspired generations of artists – will be celebrated in a month-long exhibition at New York City’s Society of Illustrators from March 1st to June 3rd, 2017. The exhibition will be curated by Denis Kitchen and John Lind and will feature over […]
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COMIC-CON 2010: Will Eisner’s A CONTRACT WITH GOD Being Adapted As A Live Action Film!
A Contract With God, by Will Eisner – one of the earliest and most influential graphic novels – is being adapted as a live action film. Given that, with the creation of his greatest masked hero, The Spirit, Eisner pioneered the use of cinematic techniques in comics, it seems only right and natural that his […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Spirit Made My Toes Curl – But I Kinda Liked It!
In a summer during the early-to-mid sixties, I surreptitiously acquired a copy of a specific issue of Playboy – not for the pictures, though those were nice, but for an essay on The Great Comic Book Heroes, by Jules Feiffer. It was about comic characters from the Golden Age of Comics [approximately 1939-1946 – your […]