Will Eisner [[electronic resource] ] : conversations / / edited by M. Thomas Inge

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819316803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2011
• ISBN: 1-283-27514-7; 9786613275141; 1-61703-128-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Collana: Conversations with comic artists
• Altri autori (Persone): EisnerWill; IngeM. Thomas
• Disciplina: 741.5/6973; B
• Soggetti: Cartoonists - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chronology; The Only Real Middle-Class Crimefighter; Having Something to Say; Will Eisner: Before the Comics; An Interview with Will Eisner; An Interview with Will Eisner; Will Eisner Interview; A Talk with Will Eisner; Will Eisner; Mastering the Form: An Interview with Will Eisner; A Cartoonist's Cartoonist; Getting the Last Laugh: My Life in Comics; Will Eisner: The Old Man on the Mountain; Night of the Paper Noir; Will Eisner's Vision and the Future of the Comics; Interview: Will Eisner; Eisner Wide Open; The Spirit of Comics! The Will Eisner Interview; Auteur TheoryIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: Will Eisner's innovations in the comics, especially the comic book and the graphic novel, as well as his devotion to comics analysis, make him one of comics' first true auteurs and the cartoonist so revered and influential that cartooning's highest honor is named after him. His newspaper feature The Spirit (1940-1952) introduced the now-common splash page to the comic book, as well as dramatic angles and lighting effects that were influenced by, and influenced in turn, the conventions of film noir. Even in his tales of crime fighting, Eisner's writing focused on everyday details of city life a