RIP: Will Eisner (1917-2005)
Correspondent:: "Revi Shankar"
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:33:21 -0500
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4148365.stm
Comic book pioneer Eisner is dead
Eisner aimed comic books beyond the traditional teenage reader
US artist Will Eisner, who revolutionised comic books with gritty newspaper
strip The Spirit, has died.
The Spirit's crime-fighting adventures ran in Sunday US newspapers until
1952.
Published in 1978, his book A Contract with God was considered to have
launched the graphic novel format, gaining comics a more adult readership.
Comic industry awards The Eisners were named after him. Eisner died aged 87
in Florida from complications following quadruple-bypass heart surgery.
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Correspondent:: Acidophilus Rex
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 04:55:05 GMT
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Revi Shankar wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4148365.stm
>
> Comic book pioneer Eisner is dead
>
> Eisner aimed comic books beyond the traditional teenage reader
>
> US artist Will Eisner, who revolutionised comic books with gritty newspaper
> strip The Spirit, has died.
>
> The Spirit's crime-fighting adventures ran in Sunday US newspapers until
> 1952.
> Published in 1978, his book A Contract with God was considered to have
> launched the graphic novel format, gaining comics a more adult readership.
>
> Comic industry awards The Eisners were named after him. Eisner died aged 87
> in Florida from complications following quadruple-bypass heart surgery.
> ...
>
> more
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4148365.stm
There was an interview with him at the Onion, the day he died.