Will Eisner (1917–2005)
Autor de Contrato con Dios
Sobre El Autor
Will Eisner was born March 6, 1917 in Brooklyn, NY. As a child he worked for printers and sold newspapers. He attended De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where his artwork first appeared in the school newspaper. His first job was at the New York American, but he lost that and found a job mostrar más with WOW What a Magazine! in 1936. He created two features for the magazine, Harry Karry and The Flame. After the magazine went under, for a short time, he freelanced and drew stories for Comic Magazines before he and friend Jerry Iger formed a the Eisner-Iger studio. The two went their separate ways when Eisner joined the Quality Comics Group to produce a syndicated 16-page newspaper supplement. It was there that Eisner created his most well known character, the Spirit. In 1942, Eisner was drafted into the army where he produced posters and strips for the troops. After the war, he continued the Spirit strip until 1952. It was during this time that he created the American Visuals Corporation, a commercial art company that created comics for educational and commercial purposes. Some of the company's clients included RCA Records, the Baltimore Colts, and New York Telephone. Eisner had given up on the Spirit strip, but still produced new material for it from time to time. He chose to focus his efforts on a more mature storyline and so produced A Contract With God, which was published in 1978. It was the beginnings of the graphic novel. Eisner also taught cartooning at the School of Visual Arts in New York, in addition to writing Comics and Sequential Art and Graphic Storytelling. The Eisner Awards, one of only two comics industry awards, are named for Eisner and were established in 1988. Eisner's work was showcased in the Whitney Museum's 1996 "NYNY: City of Ambition" show. Will Eisner passed away on Monday January 3, 2005 at the age of 87 after undergoing quadruple bypass heart surgery. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1982. SDCC
Series
Obras de Will Eisner
Minor Miracles: Long Ago and Once upon a Time, Back When Uncles Were Heroic, Cousins Were Clever, and Miracles Happened… (2000) 145 copias
Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist (Will Eisner… (2008) 93 copias
Los Archivos de Spirit, Volumen 15 (6 de julio a 28 de diciembre de 1947) (1947) — Autor — 64 copias
Los Archivos de Spirit, Volumen 17 (4 de julio a 26 de diciembre de 1948) (1948) — Autor — 50 copias
Los Archivos de Spirit, Volumen 26 (Después de la serie: de 1952 a 2005) (-0001) — Autor — 45 copias
Los Archivos de Spirit, Volumen 21 (2 de julio a 31 de diciembre de 1950) (1950) — Autor — 44 copias
Los Archivos de Spirit, Volumen 19 (3 de julio a 25 de diciembre de 1949) (1949) — Autor — 44 copias
Los Archivos de Spirit, Volumen 23 (1 de julio a 30 de diciembre de 1951) (1951) — Autor — 41 copias
Jewish Comix Anthology: Volume 1: A Collection of Tales, Stories and Myths Told and Retold in Comic Book Format. (2014) 19 copias
Will Eisner's Gleeful Guide to Living with Astrology: An Every-Day Manual for Coping with People, Events, and… (1974) 5 copias
Torpedo 1936 (Torpedo #1) 4 copias
Spirit - nr. 1 4 copias
Will Eisner's Quarterly, No. 1 4 copias
Mit navn er Nigelle 4 copias
Eisner Beeldverhalen: 4. 3 copias
Spirit - De vrouwen van De Spirit 3 copias
The Spirit #2 (Harvey) 3 copias
A Contract with God and Other Stories of Dropsie Avenue: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions) (2022) 3 copias
O Nome do Jogo 3 copias
Spirit, Ebony 2 copias
The Spirit, nº 53 2 copias
The Daily Spirit #2 2 copias
Spirit - Qui a tué Cox Robin ? 2 copias
Spirit(magazine) - nr. 2 2 copias
Spirit - The Daily Spirit - Nr. 4 2 copias
Spirit - The Daily Spirit - Nr. 3 2 copias
The Spirit #49 2 copias
The Spirit #47 2 copias
The Spirit #46 2 copias
Nova York a vida na grande cidade 2 copias
Spirit - Caramba 2 copias
The Spirit (Bag) 2 2 copias
Spirit, Het juweel van Gizeh 2 copias
All About P'Gell 2 copias
The Spirit Magazine issue 26 2 copias
The Spirit Magazine issue 23 2 copias
The Spirit: The origin years 2 copias
The Spirit #1 (The Origin Issue) 2 copias
The Spirit #5 2 copias
The Spirit #3 2 copias
Baseball Comics 2 copias
Spirit 4 2 copias
The Spirit 3 2 copias
Spirit: Silk Satin 2 copias
The Spirit #54 1 copia
The Spirit #50 1 copia
The Spirit #29 1 copia
The Spirit #73 1 copia
The Spirit #10: The Origin Years 1 copia
The Spirit #56 1 copia
The Spirit #17 1 copia
The Spirit #18 1 copia
The Spirit #71 1 copia
The Spirit #19 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 69 1 copia
The Spirit, nª69 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 68 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 67 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 65 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 64 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 61 1 copia
The Spirit #20 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 60 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 59 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 57 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 56 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 55 1 copia
The Spirit #22 1 copia
The Spirit #27 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 52 1 copia
The Spirit #26 1 copia
The Spirit No. 3 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 41 1 copia
The Spirit #25 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 51 1 copia
The Spirit #24 1 copia
The Spirit #30 Kitchen Sink 1987 1 copia
The Spirit #28 Kitchen Sink 1986 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 72 1 copia
The Sìpirit, nº 50 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 49 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 47 1 copia
The Spirit: The Invader 1 copia
Spirit Special #1 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 73 1 copia
City - a Narrative Portfolio 1 copia
Comic Art n.69 - Luglio 1990 — Artista de Cubierta — 1 copia
The Spirit. Crime Convention. 1 copia
The Spirit Paperback 1 copia
SPIRIT PORTFOLIO 1 copia
Spirit(magazine) - nr. 3 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 23 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 10 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 6 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 5 1 copia
Spirit - Opgør med Octopus 1 copia
The Spirit - Ng # 06 1 copia
Spirit - Ng # 05 1 copia
The Spirit - Ng # 04 1 copia
Spirit - Ng # 02 1 copia
Spirit - Ng # 01 1 copia
A FORÇA DA VIDA (QUADRINHOS) 1 copia
The Spirit Magazine # 4 1 copia
O NOME DO FOGO 1 copia
The Spirit [complete] 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 2 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 74 1 copia
Daily Spirit #1 1 copia
Will Eisner The Name Of The Game 1 copia
The Daily Spirit #4 1 copia
The Daily Spirit #3 1 copia
COMMENT DIALOGUER AVEC LES PLANTES ET LES AIDER A S'EPANOUIR - LES GUIDES LOUFOQUES DE WILL EISNER 1 copia
The Spirit 1-87 (Kitchen Sink) 1 copia
The Spirit No. 32 1 copia
101 Outer Space Jokes 1 copia
Starjaws 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 76 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 75 1 copia
COMMENT EVITER LA MORT ET LES IMPOTS.. ET VIVRE HEUREUX ETERNELLEMENT - LES GUIDES LOUFOQUES DE WILL EISNER (1976) 1 copia
Katu Bronxissa: sivukujat 1 copia
Tirez pas sur le Spirit 1 copia
Pas de lauriers pour le Spirit. 1 copia
Le complot - préface d'Umberto Eco: L'histoire secrète des Protocoles des Sages de Sion (2018) 1 copia
L'Astrologie sournoise : Comment mettre à profit toutes les faiblesses des autres (Les Guides loufoques) (1976) 1 copia
The Spirit . 3 1 copia
Spirit nr. 1 1 copia
Bronx 1930 1 copia
De stad 1 copia
Super the Spirit 1 copia
Spirit hæfte nr. 2 1 copia
Spirit hæfte nr. 1 1 copia
Black Special 1/1991 1 copia
Le Spirit. Les Paumés 1 copia
Aventures exotiques (Le Spirit) 1 copia
Black Special 2/1991 1 copia
Spirit Album nr. 5 1 copia
Spirit, nº 2 1 copia
Spirit, nº 1 1 copia
Spirit hæfte nr. 3 1 copia
Spirit Album nr. 2 1 copia
Gamut # 02 1 copia
The Real Thing 1 copia
Spirit: 3-ulotteinen sarjakuva 1 copia
The spirit # 7 1 copia
The spirit # 8 1 copia
The spirit # 9 1 copia
The spirit # 10 1 copia
Will Eisner's 3-D Classics 1 copia
The spirit # 11 1 copia
SPIRIT - der intelligenste Gangsterjäger der Welt, Bd. 1, 66 Seiten (Will Eisner Comic in Farbe) (1977) 1 copia
Spirit Album nr. 4 1 copia
Spirit 1 : 1941 - 1942 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 15 1 copia
Spirit revista para adultos 1 copia
The Spirit Paperback 1 copia
Tabloid Press Full Color Spirit 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 28 1 copia
Spirit 2 : 1942 - 1943 1 copia
55 Dropsie Avenue Le Bronx 1 copia
Will Eisner's John Law Detective 1 copia
The Spirit, nº 11 1 copia
Den ¤hvide hval 1 copia
The Spirit #31 1 copia
Zum Herzen des Sturms, Tl.2 1 copia
Zum Herzen des Sturms, Tl.1 1 copia
Spirit Album nr. 1 1 copia
Spirit 3 : 1943 - 1944 1 copia
Żyd Fagin 1 copia
Sprawa rodzinna i inne historie 1 copia
Spirit: På sporet 1 copia
Der Spirit 1 copia
Spirit, Vol.4 1 copia
Spirit, Vol.2 1 copia
Big City Blues 1 copia
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9-11: The World's Finest Comic Book Writers & Artists Tell Stories to Remember (2002) — Contribuidor — 250 copias
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume IV (1988) — Ilustrador, algunas ediciones — 98 copias
Strip AIDS U.S.A.: A Collection of Cartoon Art to Benefit People With AIDS (1988) — Contribuidor — 60 copias
Comics 8 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Eisner, Will
- Nombre legal
- Eisner, William Erwin
- Otros nombres
- Rensie, Willis B.
Erwin - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1917-03-06
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2005-01-03
- Lugar de sepultura
- Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Hawthorne, New York, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- complications from quadruple bypass surgery
- Lugares de residencia
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
White Plains, New York, USA
Florida, USA - Educación
- Art Students League of New York
- Ocupaciones
- artist
comic book packager
creator of instructional materials
teacher - Organizaciones
- Eisner and Iger Studio
- Premios y honores
- Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (named in his honor)
Reuben Award (1998)
Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême (1975)
Academy of Comic Book Arts Hall of Fame (1971)
Kirby Award (Hall of Fame, 1987)
Squiddy Award (Best Cartoonist, 2004) (mostrar todos 7)
Sparky Award (2001)
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What is your favorite Will Eisner work? en Comics (noviembre 2011)
Will Eisner en Comics (octubre 2007)
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- ISBNs
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- Idiomas
- 19
- Favorito
- 33
I've long been fascinated by Blackhawk. About a squadron of unaffiliated pro-Allies fighter pilots, Blackhawk began as a feature in Quality's Military Comics in Aug. 1941. This very World War II–focused comic lasted through all of that title's run, surviving a name change and the end of the war, until what was now Modern Comics came to an end with issue #102 in Oct. 1950. In the meantime, though, it had picked up its own self-titled book, which ran for ninety-nine issues until Dec. 1956. At that point, DC acquired the title from Quality without skipping a beat, and under DC, it ran another 166 issues until Nov. 1984 (albeit with a couple hiatuses). It then got a few post-Crisis revivals (including a three-issue 1988 miniseries and a sixteen-issue 1989-90 ongoing), and even an eight-issue "New 52" run (2012-13). Plus some of the characters have made appearances elsewhere; Blackhawk himself appeared in a 1996-97 arc of Sandman Mystery Theatre, Lady Blackhawk in Guy Gardner and Birds of Prey, and both together in Batman Confidential. And on top of all that, there was a Blackhawk novel!
That's quite a history for a comic which, to be honest, doesn't strike me as having a very adaptable premise, and over the years the premise has had to be reinvented repeatedly. If your comic is all about stopping the Nazis from overunning Europe, what can its point be in 1950, or 1960, or 1970, or 1980, or 1990? How have our conceptions of the Second World War changed over time? That's what I want to find out, starting from its 1941 debut and going all the way through its last pre-Flashpoint incarnation in 1990. (Based on previous experience with writer Mike Costa, I have no desire to subject myself to the New 52 run.) That's fifty years of comics history!
It all begins here, with the seventeen stories collected in this DC Archive Edition. The archive editions feature high-quality hardcover reprints of Golden Age material, but there must not have been much of a demand for Blackhawk, because twenty-three years on, a second volume has yet to appear. Like many Golden Age comics, Military Comics was an anthology title, with a variety of features, in this case half were about the Army and half about the Navy. Blackhawk is the only one to have had any lasting permanence, and only the Blackhawk stories are represented here.
These seventeen issues give little characterization but lots of Blackhawks-on-Nazi and Blackhawks-on-Japanese action. The earliest issues take place in the European theatre, but as the series goes on, we get more stories that focus on Japan. Ususually the Blackhawks fly somewhere, get involved in some kind of Nazi plot, foil it, and move on. To be honest, I don't think dogfighting plays to the strengths of the comics medium; it comes across as a series of still images of airplanes. So, the plots often revolve around the Blackhawks infiltrating or extricating or committing acts of sabotage.
In the early stages, the make-up of the group is pretty vague, but soon it settles down into a set of regulars, each from a different European country: Blackhawk, Hendrikson, André, Stanislaus, Olaf, and Chuck. (Plus Chop-Chop, but more on him later.) I know Blackhawk himself is eventually named Janos Prohaska, but that's not in this book. Most of these characters get little in the way of distinctive dialogue; André is the vaguely smooth French one, Olaf is an oaf, and that's about it. I couldn't pick the other three out of a line-up.
The earliest issues, written by Will Eisner and illustrated by Chuck Cuidera, have them getting involved in different Nazi plots: Blackhawk hunts down the German baron who killed his family and spars with a nurse, they steal radium from Paris before the Nazis can use it to build a bomb, the meet up with the nurse again to help her defend a refugee column, they try to stop the Nazis from capturing a munitions ship in the Suez Canal, and so on. None of it's high art, with crude but powerful writing and art, but it's fun if often ridiculous. There's a bit where André realizes that they need an avalanche to stop some Nazis... and so he flings himself down a mountainside, killing himself in order to be the incitement of an avalanche!
Even without the credits, you can tell a new writer takes over with #5, because suddenly things get less war-focused and more fantastic. Weird-looking people called the Scavengers, killer germs, an island that suddenly appears in the middle of the Atlantic, a haunted castle, and so on... These stories are written by Dick French, and left me wondering how the title had run out of ideas so quickly! The haunted castle one is pretty stupid—the ghost turns out to be André wearing a suit of armor because he's embarrassed by his disfigurement—but at least it has strong art by Chuck Cuidera, with lots of cool layouts that really capture the vibe of the castle. The next story is even stupider, though, as the Blackhawks kidnap a Jewish plastic surgeon from a concentration camp to repair André's face but because he's mad with grief he makes a mistake, but this turns out to be that he looks exactly like the Nazi general who kidnapped the surgeon's daughter, so André replaces him! Like, lol, wut?
Thankfully Bill Woolfolk soon takes over as writer and Reed Crandall on art, and I found their vibe much closer to the first four issues', and more consistently enjoyable. Woolfolk also gives the other team members more to do, especially Olaf... though he also has more of a thing for phonetic accents. Blackhawk gets to face down Von Tepp's brother "the Butcher," though he also keeps meeting Asian women who have fallen in love with him and switch allegiance. Crandall is a good artist, but I do kind of miss how Cuidera drew Blackhawk's face!
Chop-Chop is a Chinese man who is sent by Blackhawk's Red Cross nurse flame in Military Comics #3 to ask for the Blackhawks' help; he fixes up a busted Nazi plane and manages to to fly it to Blackhawk Island all by himself. He's a weird character, in that visually, he's an offensive racist caricature, and also the white characters mostly don't respect him... but he's sometimes a buffoon and sometimes surprisingly competent, perpetually underestimated even by his own teammates. Also he can curse up a storm! I am not totally sure what the writers are going for with him other than "Chinese people are victims of imperial aggression yet also hilarious," but I guess I'll see what future creators make of him as I go on.
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