| Creator Will Eisner (1917-2005) |
| Profession Cartoonist, Publisher |
| Total Entries 39 |
| Articles Will Eisner: Having Something to Say – The Comics Journal Will Eisner – Wikipedia |
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Will Eisner was an early master of the German expressionist approach in comic books — the Fritz Lang school. “Muss ‘Em Up” was full of dark shadows, creepy angle shots, graphic close-ups of violence and terror. Eisner’s world seemed more real than the world of other comic book men because it looked that much more like a movie… Eisner retooled this mythic realism to his own uses: black fantasies on paper. Clothing sat on his characters heavily; when they bent an arm, deep folds sprang into action everywhere. When one Eisner character slugged another, a real fist hit real flesh. Violence was no externalized plot exercise; it was the gut of his style. Massive and indigestible, it curdled, lava-like, from the page. Eisner moved on from Fiction House to land, finally, with the Quality Comics Group — the Warner Brothers of the business — creating the tone for their entire line: The Doll Man, Black Hawk, Uncle Sam, The Black Condor, The Ray, Espionage — starring Black-X — Eisner creations all. He’d draw a few episodes and abandoned the characters — bequeath them to Lou Fine, Reed Crandall, others. No matter. The Quality books bore his look, his layout, his way of telling a story. For Eisner did just about all of his own writing — a rarity in comic book men. His stories carried the same weight as his line, involving a reader, setting the terms, making the most unlikely of plot twists credible… ~ The Great Comic Book Heroes Intro & Afterword by Jules Feiffer – The Comics Journal
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