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Will Eisner

06 Mar 1917 - 03 Jan 2005

William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series The Spirit (1940–1952) was noted for its experiments in content and form. In 1978, he popularized the term "graphic novel" with the publication of his book A Contract with God. He was an early contributor to formal comics studies with his book Comics and Sequential Art (1985). The Eisner Award was named in his honor, and is given to recognize achievements each year in the comics medium; he was one of the three inaugural inductees to the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

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  • Cover of: A Contract With God

    First published in 1984 7 editions in 3 languages — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1980s

    First published in 2013 6 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Comics and Sequential Art

    First published in 1985 6 editions in 1 language — 4 previewable Cover of edition comicssequential00eisn Cover of edition comicssequential0000eisn Cover of edition comicssequential00eisn_543
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  • Cover of: A contract with God and other tenement stories

    First published in 1978 6 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition contractwithgodo00eisn Cover of edition contractwithgod00eisn
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  • Cover of: Dropsie Avenue: the neighborhood

    First published in 1995 6 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Fagin the Jew

    First published in 2003 5 editions in 2 languages — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The building

    First published in 1987 5 editions in 2 languages
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  • Cover of: Last Day in Vietnam: A Memory

    First published in 2000 5 editions in 3 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition lastdayinvietnam0000eisn
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  • Cover of: The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

    First published in 2005 5 editions in 2 languages — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: To the heart of the storm

    First published in 1991 4 editions in 2 languages — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The Dreamer: A Graphic Novella Set During the Dawn of Comic Books

    First published in 1986 4 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The last knight: an introduction to Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes

    First published in 2000 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: A life force

    First published in 1988 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Will Eisner Sketchbook

    First published in 1996 4 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The amazing adventures of The Escapist.: Volume 3

    First published in 2004 4 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition isbn_9781442047280
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  • Cover of: City People Notebook

    First published in 1989 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: A family matter

    First published in 1998 3 editions in 2 languages
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  • Cover of: Life on another planet

    First published in 1995 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Will Eisner reader: seven graphic stories by a comics master.

    First published in 1991 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The Best of the Spirit

    First published in 2005 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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Subjects
Comic books, strips, Comics & graphic novels, general, Graphic novels, Fiction, Cartoonists, History and criticism, Technique, Caricatures and cartoons, Authorship, Cartooning, Cartoons and comics, Comic books, strips, etc., Illustrations, Immigrants, Interviews, Spirit (Comic strip), Biography, Children's fiction, City and town life, Comic books, strips, etc., history and criticism, Comics & graphic novels, science fiction, Folklore, New york (n.y.), fiction, Spirit (Fictitious character), Tenement houses
Places
United States, New York (N.Y.), Bronx, New York, New York (State), Bronx (New York, N.Y.), Folklore, Germany, Juden, Korea, Mali, New York- Bronx, Spain, Vietnam
People
Will Eisner, Herman Melville (1819-1891), McCloud, Quixote Don, the Younger, Scott, Soundiata Keita (d. 1255)
Time
1800-1990, 1930s, 1950-1953, 1961-1975, Great Depression

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  • William Erwin Eisner
  • William E. Eisner

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December 22, 2021 Edited by dcapillae remove wrong alternatives names
December 22, 2021 Edited by dcapillae merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
August 4, 2020 Edited by dcapillae Added short bio from Wikipedia
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import