Will Eisner was born on March 6, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York. By the time of his death on January 3, 2005, Will Eisner was recognized internationally as one of the giants in the field of sequential art, a term he coined. In a career that spanned nearly eight decades—from the dawn of the comic book to the advent of digital comics - Will Eisner was truly the 'Father of the Graphic Novel' and the 'Orson Welles of Comics.' He broke new ground in the development of visual narrative and the language of comics and was the creator of The Spirit, John Law, Lady Luck, Mr. Mystic, Uncle Sam, Blackhawk, Sheena, and countless others. During World War II, Will Eisner used the comic format to develop training and equipment maintenance manuals for the US Army. After the war this continued as the Army's "PS Magazine" which is still being produced today. Will Eisner taught Sequential Art at the New York School of Visual Arts for 20 years. The textbooks that he wrote were based on his course and are still bestsellers. In 1978, Will Eisner wrote "A Contract with God," the first modern Graphic Novel. This was followed by almost 20 additional graphic novels over the following 25 years. The "Oscars" of the Comic Industry are called The Eisner Awards, and named after Will Eisner. The Eisners are presented annually before a packed ballroom at San Diego Comic-Con, America's largest comics convention. Wizard magazine named Eisner "the most influential comic artist of all time." Michael Chabon's Pulitzer-prize winning novel "Kavalier and Clay" is based in good part on Eisner. In 2002, Eisner received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Federation for Jewish Culture, presented by Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman.
Series
Books
Contratto con Dio. La trilogia
2005
Michael Chabon Presents... The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist
#6
2005
The Name of the Game
2001
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 25
2008
Star Jaws
1978
PS Magazine
The Best of the Preventive Maintenance Monthly
2011
Last Day In Vietnam
2000
To the Heart of the Storm
1991
Life on Another Planet
1978
Will Eisner Reader
Seven Graphic Stories from a Comics Master
1991
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 8
2002
Nova York - A Vida na Grande Cidade
2006
The Spirit #1
The Origin of The Spirit
1940
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 12
1947
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 5
1942
The Plot
The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
2005
City People Notebook
1989
All About P'Gell
1998
Sundiata
A Legend of Africa
2000
A Life Force
1987
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 2
1941
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 20
1950
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 4
2001
Comics and Sequential Art
Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist
1985
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative
1996
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 21
2007
The Last Knight
An Introduction to Don Quixote
1999
New York
The Big City
1986
Eisner/Miller
2005
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 1
1940
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 13
1946
Life, in Pictures
2007
Minor Miracles
Long Ago and Once upon a Time Back When Uncles Were Heroic, Cousins Were Clever, and Miracles Happened on Every Block
2000
I Classici del Fumetto di Repubblica, #33
L'arte di Will Eisner
1982
Fagin the Jew
2003
Will Eisner
The Centennial Celebration: 1917-2017
2017
Dropsie Avenue
The Neighborhood
1995
Will Eisner Sketchbook
1996
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 26
2008
A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories
1978
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 14
2004
The Building
1987
Autobiographix
2003
Invisible People
1992
Spirit Archives
Femmes Fatales
2008
Michael Chabon's The Escapist
Pulse-Pounding Thrills
2018
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 15
1947
The Best of the Spirit
2005
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 22
2007
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 18
2006
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 9
1945
The Dreamer
1986
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 10
1945
Will Eisner's Shop Talk
2001
A Family Matter
1998
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 24
2008
