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• Will Eisner.
• Will Eisner was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1917, as the son of Jewish immigrants. ... The magazine folded, but Eisner teamed up with his friend Jerry Iger and founded the Eisner-Iger Studio. ... A memorable title Eisner made in this period is 'Hawk of the Seas', which originally started as 'The Flame'. ...
• In 1939, Will Eisner left the studio to join the Quality Comics Group, where he worked on a syndicated 16-page newspaper supplement for which he created his most famous comic, 'The Spirit'. This innovative strip about a masked detective soon became the most popular feature of the comics section (for which Eisner also drew three other titles) and it was renamed The Spirit Section. Eisner's style stood out for the use of so-called "splash-pages" - one picture filling the page like a movie poster with the lettering fully integrated into the image - and his unmatched capacity for rendering atmospheres: mist, nighttime skies, fuming sewers, and the like. ...
• In 1942, Will Eisner was drafted into the Army and served his country by producing posters, illustrations and strips for the education and entertainment of the troops. ...
• Will Eisner founded the American Visuals Corporation, which created comics, cartoons and illustrations for educational and commercial purposes. One title Eisner revived was 'Joe Dope', a strip about a soldier he created during the war. The work for his corporation proved so lucrative, that Eisner abandoned 'The Spirit'. Dutch editor Olaf Stoop of The Real Free Press reprinted 'The Spirit' in the early 1970s and revived the interest in Eisner's work. This prompted Eisner to create 'A Contract With God' in 1978, four short stories about life in the Bronx slums in the 1930s, told with such literary agility and graphic accomplishment, that a new comics form was born: the graphic novel. ...
• Kitchen Sink Press published Eisner's following graphic novels, like 'The Building', 'The Dreamer' (in which he describes his Spirit days, telling the tales of the time when comic artists were more like conveyor belt workers - obliged to work on pages with pre-printed panels) 'A Family Matter' and the semi-autobiographical 'To the Heart of the Storm'. Besides these, Eisner also started out in the field of comics theory. ...
• Will Eisner can rightly be considered as the godfather of American comics, not only for adding 'The Spirit' to the long list of brilliant American comic strips, but especially for proving that comics can match literature and are not just a dubious means of entertainment for children (as people thought in the 1950s). Eisner was a teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New York and wrote two standard works on the creative process of making comics, 'Comics and Sequential Art' and 'Graphic Storytelling'. In 1988, the Eisner Awards were established, coveted comics prizes which Eisner presided over at the yearly Comic-Con in San Diego. ...

• The Minor Miracles of Will Eisner.
• t's a platitude that has been repeated often, but it bears saying again: Will Eisner is one of the great masters of narrative sequential art, a. ... A generation after pioneers such as Winsor McCay and George Herriman laid the foundation for the art form, Eisner further explored its breadth and potential in the 1940s with his newspaper insert comic book, The Spirit. Currently being archived in hardback editions, The Spirit is a monumental achievement that alone would secure Eisner's legacy--its innovative layouts and strong storytelling have influenced generations since--but Eisner's claim to fame also rests with his graphic novels, books that place emphasis on humanity over heroics. Beginning with the 1978 A Contract with God (widely credited as being the first graphic novel, though it is really a set of four interconnected stories), Eisner showed just how literary the comic format can get. ...
• Surely no-one but Eisner, for example, would have the audacity to adapt Cervantes' famed novel Don Quixote into a 32-page comic book, but this is exactly what Eisner has done in The Last Knight. ... It is thus a pleasure to report that the publisher promises more classic works as rendered by Will Eisner.
• On hiatus from the more public world of comics, Eisner produced educational tracts for the military in the '50s and '60s--most notably in his P. ... " Yet flying into Korea and Vietnam for information gathering field trips also gave Eisner an unencumbered look at the human side of the military equation, and the six stories here pay tribute to individual persons. Eisner may employ a comic touch to some of his scenarios, but all are invested with the tragic sense of life during wartime as well. In the title story, Eisner puts us in role of the camera eye as we are led about by a soldier whose final duty before he ships out is to escort a reporter through the camp; with no editorial intervention, Eisner conveys the contradictions of war with real pathos. ...
• Minor Miracles, Eisner's latest work, is a graphic novel of urban life that provides a perfect bookend to his groundbreaking A Contract with God. Like the earlier book, this one offers four stories connected by setting and theme--the latter in this case is the presence of the miraculous within the everyday--and like most of Eisner's graphic novel work, including Last Day in Vietnam, it is presented in sepia tones that enhance the feel that these are pictures from the past, stills recovered from memory and strung together into sweeping narratives. ... But comparing Eisner to the narrative masters of yore is simply to say that he is one of them. ...
• Whether rewriting the classics, revisiting the war, or remembering the lessons of his childhood, Will Eisner is a consummate comics artist, one who strives to connect with his readers with every word and brush stroke. It is a minor miracle that we live in a time when his early work is being reprinted and reappraised while new work continues to appear--we have greater access than ever to the full panoply of Will Eisner's carefully crafted sequential art, and all we need do is sit back and enjoy.

• Will Eisner, un profilo.
• Il nome di Eisner è indissolubilmente legato al suo personaggio Spirit, ma è impossibile dimenticare l’enorme debito che la narrativa per immagini deve a quest’uomo.
• Ma si possono scrivere solamente due parole su Will Eisner? “I fumetti esistevano da parecchi anni prima che Eisner entrasse nel settore, e prima del suo arrivo c’erano stati certamente degli innovatori che lo avevano preceduto: Windsor Mckay con le sue illustrazioni incredibilmente dettagliate e la sua creatività narrativa, George Herriman e le sue splendide e surreali storie d’amore, Milton Caniff con il suo forte chiaroscuro unito all’estremo realismo dei suoi personaggi… solo per citare i nomi più ovvi. Ma il fumetto non ha mai avuto nessuno come Eisner, autore in grado di unire il meglio di quanto fatto sino a quel momento e di aggiungervi più di qualche semplice innovazione” E’ con queste parole che si apre il primo splendido volume dei “Will Eisner’s Spirit Archieves” (opera cronologica di altissima qualità che si propone di ristampare tutto il materiale realizzato da Eisner per il suo personaggio più famoso) e noi non possiamo che sottoscrivere ogni singola parola di questa introduzione. Se infatti Eisner non è il padre dei fumetti moderni, ne è indiscutibilmente il maggiore esponente, l’uomo che meglio di chiunque altro ha capito il potenziale mediatico del fumetto (da lui definito “arte sequenziale”) e ne ha definito (ed in larga parte superato) i limiti. Il nome di Eisner è indissolubilmente legato a Spirit (personaggio nato come il più classico degli inserti a fumetti per quotidiani e con gli anni trasformato in vero e proprio banco di prova per i più arditi esperimenti narrativi) ma è assolutamente impossibile dimenticare l’enorme debito che la narrativa per immagini deve a quest’uomo: è nel 1978 infatti che Will Eisner tiene a battesimo la prima Graphic Novel mai realizzata, quel “Contratto con Dio” che ancora oggi viene ristampato in tutto il mondo, e che da solo basta a creare un nuovo genere narrativo che potremmo definire come “romanzo per immagini”. Negli anni successivi a “Contratto con Dio” Eisner continua a proporre nuovi indimenticabili volumi (“Affari di Famiglia”, “Verso la Tempesta”, “A Life Force” solo per citarne alcuni) continuando il suo percorso di sperimentazione narrativa, senza però mai allontanarsi dall’estrema umanità dei suoi personaggi. Ad affiancare le sue opere narrative, arrivano anche due saggi sul racconto per immagini (“Fumetto & Arte Sequenziale” e “Graphic Story Telling”) in cui Eisner si cimenta nel non facile compito di spiegare alle generazioni di futuri fumettisti la sua visione del fumetto, e le incredibili potenzialità narrative che questo media nasconde. In sostanza Will Eisner è la quintessenza del fumetto, un qualcosa che non si può racchiudere nel semplice valore del disegno, nella qualità dei testi o nella “regia” della tavola, ma che assume forma solo dall’unione di questi elementi e che da questa unione ottiene un valore aggiunto che è quello specifico del grande fumetto: il saper raccontare. ... Non si possono scrivere soltanto due parole su Will Eisner, non ne basterebbero ventimila. ...

• Eisner made over $700 million in 5 years.
• Eisner on Financial Times .
• On Monday an op-ed piece ran in the Financial Times by Disney CEO Michael Eisner. ... Eisner says Lincoln would have loved the Internet and hated the piracy. ...
• After reading his essay, I got interested in who Michael Eisner is. ... So which creative people will speak for Eisner's position? They are conspicuously silent. ...
• When a CEO of Eisner's stature takes the philosophical stage, calling music fans pirates, he's going to get looked at, and when we maintain our self-respect, we find that he's not above reproach. ...
• Business is simple, but Eisner makes it sound complex. ... Imho, Eisner and his ilk were the pirates.
• I've linked to various web-based op-eds on the Eisner issue from Scripting News, yesterday and today, and likely tomorrow and the day after.

• The resignation letter than Disney (DIS:NYSE - commentary - research) Vice Chairman Roy Disney sent to CEO Michael Eisner Sunday has gathered plenty of attention with its explicit criticism of how Eisner is running the company. ...
• But, given Roy Disney's (and others') failed prior efforts to shame Eisner out of office -- plus the hurdles that appear necessary nowadays to get a CEO dumped -- Mr. Disney's parting shots seem unlikely to fulfill their stated goal of provoking Eisner's departure. ...
• Disney's stock -- reflecting investors' hope that Eisner will depart, or their relief that Roy Disney won't be able to heckle him from the close proximity of the boardroom, or simply market noise -- rose 7 cents Monday to trade at $23. ...
• Roy Disney's letter, reported Sunday by The Wall Street Journal, raises a number of complaints about Eisner's stewardship, none of them surprising to people who have been following the company since its stock descended from the $40-plus levels it traded at three years ago. ...
• As listed in Disney's letter -- which he requested the company file publicly with the Securities and Exchange Commission -- these shortcomings include Eisner's failure to rescue the prime time ratings of the Disney-owned ABC television network; his inability to come up with winning programming for the ABC Family Channel; his "consistent micro-management of everyone" around him and a resultant loss of morale; cheaply built theme parks; a creative brain drain; Eisner's refusal to establish a clear succession plan, and "the perception by all our stakeholders. ...

• Kurt Eisner .
• Mai: Kurt Eisner wird als Sohn des jüdischen Fabrikanten Emanuel Eisner und dessen Frau Hedwig (geb. ...
• 1917 Eisner wird Vorsitzender der Unabhängigen Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands (USPD) in Bayern. ...
• 1918 Januar: Eisner organisiert den Munitionsarbeiterstreik in München und wird deswegen für neun Monate inhaftiert. ...
• November: Nachdem Eisner den "Freistaat Bayern" proklamiert hat, bildet sich unter seinem Vorsitz im Landtag ein Arbeiter-, Bauern- und Soldatenrat.
• November: Bildung eines provisorischen Nationalrates in Bayern, in dem Eisner Ministerpräsident und Außenminister wird. ...
• November: Eisner läßt die bayerischen Gesandtschaftsberichte zum Kriegsausbruch in einer gekürzten Form veröffentlichen; sie sollen die deutsche Kriegsschuld beweisen.
• 1919 Januar: Nach der katastrophalen Wahlniederlage der USPD in Bayern ist Eisner mit der provisorischen Regierung zum Rücktritt gezwungen.
• Februar: Auf dem Weg zur konstituierenden Sitzung des neugewählten Landtags wird Kurt Eisner von dem Reserveleutnant Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley (1897-1945) erschossen. ...

• Home > Business Disney president to replace Eisner as CEO Boston Globe LOS ANGELES -- The Walt Disney Co. said yesterday that its president, Robert Iger, will succeed Michael Eisner as chief executive after another top contender for the job dropped out of the running. Gary Gentile March 14, 2005 --> Disney president to replace Eisner as CEO.
• said yesterday that its president, Robert Iger, will succeed Michael Eisner as chief executive after another top contender for the job dropped out of the running.
• Eisner will step down on that day, a year earlier than he had previously announced, the company said.
• In a letter to the board, Eisner praised the decision and said he will not seek a nomination for another term on the board when his current term expires next year. Eisner also said he will not seek the board chairmanship after Mitchell retires.
• Eisner, CEO since 1984, said in September that he would retire after his contract expires next year and had backed Iger as his successor. Disney officials, meanwhile, had said they planned to choose Eisner's replacement by June and that Iger, along with candidates from outside the company, were being considered.
• Disney's board first split the roles last year after shareholders delivered a stinging vote of no confidence in Eisner, who then held both titles. ...
• Disney and Stanley Gold, who sparked the shareholder revolt and lobbied unsuccessfully for Eisner's ouster last year.

• Will Eisner (New York – USA, 1917) è autore di fumetti dal 1936. ...

• The Spirit originally ran from Sunday 2 June, 1940 until Sunday 5 October, 1952, as a weekly feature, created by Will Eisner. ...
• 9 January 2005 - For the moment I have added a listing of obituaries and condolences to Will Eisner on the links page. Further information will be added, as well as updates to the biography page on Will Eisner on this site in the near future. Letters of condolences to Will's wife, Ann, can be sent to the Will Eisner Studios address shown below.
• 4 January 2005 - It has been announced that Will Eisner passed away on Monday 3rd January 2005, following complications from the heart surgery. ... As a longtime fan and reader of Mr Eisner's work may I extend my condolences to his friends and family. Will Eisner was a true pioneer of the medium.
• 25 December 2004 -Gary Chaloner has received the following information from Denis Kitchen about Will Eisner: .
• Will Eisner Studios, Inc.
• 11 December 2004 - Still not sure what to get the Eisner fan for Christmas? May I recommend the following:- Will Eisner Companion, now available from Amazon! Will Eisner's John Law is now available to order in signed hardcover, plus there are a lot of cool John Law items available to purchase.
• 3 July 2004 - Will Eisner's next graphic novel The Plot is discussed in an interview with Will at the Washington Post. And Bob Andelman's site has further news about the new biography on Will Eisner he is writing.
• 15 June 2004 - Comic Book Resources have the DC Comics solicitations for September, which includes an advance (due in October) solicitation for a new book on Will Eisner: The Will Eisner Companion.
• 9 June 2004 - Newsarama have some previews from the Eisner/Miller book.
• Plus updates on Will Eisner graphic novels, and Books about comics, or other comic strips and Will Eisner & Spirit collectables on the bookshop pages.
• 8 April 2004 - The 2004 Eisner Award Nominees have been announced - among them are The Spirit Archives Volume 12 for Best Archival Collection/Project, and Jules Feiffer and Lou Fine are nominations for the Hall of Fame. ...

•  Bruce Eisner .
•     Bruce Eisner nació el 26 de febrero de 1948 en Brooklyn y se crió en Los Ángeles. ...

• Doubts persist over Eisner's successor at Disney .
• Michael Eisner's decision to hand the reins of Walt Disney to his successor after 20 years in charge is unlikely to end criticism of the media and entertainment group.
• The board's decision to appoint Mr Eisner's number two, Bob Iger, on Sunday was met with complaints about the selection process and doubts about Mr Iger's ability to tackle large strategic issues facing the company, which owns movie studios, the ABC television channel and theme parks.
• Article continues Although Mr Iger has been credited with the success of recent shows such as Desperate Housewives, his five years as number two have not been without complaint, some from Mr Eisner himself.
• George Mitchell, appointed chairman last year after Mr Eisner was forced to stand down, said the "lengthy and detailed" selection process had resulted in "clearly the best-qualified individual". ...
• Over the past three years, Mr Eisner, who has earned more than $1bn (£522m) in salary, bonus and exercised stock options since 1984, has faced calls for his resignation by disgruntled shareholders led by Roy Disney, nephew of the founder, and the former board director, Stanley Gold. ...
• In announcing his decision to stand down, Mr Eisner, 63, said he was "ready to move on and climb new mountains". ... Mr Eisner's letter to the board said he would "always be available to help Disney in any way he can".
• 2005: Doubts persist over Eisner's successor at Disney.
• 2004: Eisner: Ovitz too 'elitist' for Disney.

• Eisner, Michael Alexander. ...
• Eisner’s debut novel is an adventure story in the purest sense of the word, complete with a brooding hero, the beautiful woman he loves, and a despicable villain. ...

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