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REVIEW: Will Eisner’s The Spirit Artist’s Edition (ComicBookDaily.com)

Published on April 29, 2013 by in comic book artists, Comic Book Writers, comic books, Comic Strips, Comics, The Spirit, Will Eisner
Will Eisner's The Spirit: Artist's Edition (IDW)


By Scott Vanderploeg

ComicBookDaily.com

After much delay, and that’s being kind, I was blown away by Will Eisner’s The Spirit Artist’s Edition. Those reading this who wonder if this book is worth the money should run to their nearest comic shop and buy it while they can.

The Spirit Artist's Edition Cover

The Spirit Artist’s Edition Cover

All the pages in this book have been scanned from the actual original art that was drawn by Will Eisner. This Artist’s Edition measures 15 x 22 inches and is 144 pages long. Each book is shipped in a custom cardboard box for maximum protection.

  • Writer, Artist: Will Eisner
  • HC, 144 Pages, 15” x 22”
  • IDW Publishing
  • $125 USD Suggested Retail

As with all Artist’s Editions, this one is a collection of original inked comic art pages scanned in colour, and as always the end product is stunning. I’m not here to review the material as it’s over sixty years old and has been published in multiple formats since. In this review I’m looking at this book from it’s presentation of material and overall production.

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Will Eisner’s The Spirit: Artist’s Edition Arrives (Scoop)

Published on April 25, 2013 by in A Contract With God, comic book artists, Comic Book Writers, comic books, Comic Strips, Comics, Ebony White, The Spirit, Will Eisner
Will Eisner's The Spirit: Artist's Edition (IDW)

Will Eisner's The Spirit: Artist's Edition (IDW)

Will Eisner’s The Spirit: Artist’s Edition (IDW)

The latest and longest awaited volume in IDW Publishing’s Artist’s Edition series makes its debut this week as Will Eisner’s The Spirit: Artist’s Edition arrives in stores on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. One of the first announced in the series, this is the week that fans decide whether or not it was worth the wait (we vote “yes,” in case anyone’s asking).

Like the other offerings in the series, the pages have been scanned in full color at the original size from the original black-and-white artwork. This process shows everything from original corrections, paste-ups and editorial marks to aging of the art board in amazing detail. In the cases of older work such as this, these volumes have often provided the finest reproduction the art has ever received.

Though known to later generations for his long form work in graphic novels beginning with A Contract With God, Eisner’s work on The Spirit was done in short, complete stories. This created the chance for IDW’s Scott Dunbier, editor of their Artist’s Edition line among other projects, to highlight a wide selection of the master cartoonist’s work.

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The Anatomy of Expression: Will Eisner and ‘A Contract With God’ (ComicsAlliance.com)

Published on April 23, 2013 by in A Contract With God, comic books, Comic Strips, Comics, Graphic Novels, Will Eisner
A Contract With God by Will Eisner

By: Timothy Callahan

In 1978, the legendary Will Eisner released A Contract With God upon the world, a masterpiece that launched the graphic novel craze that would eventually compel your local Barnes & Noble to push aside mid-list Sidney Sheldon and Chuck Palahniuk novels to dedicate upwards of twelve feet of shelving to books like The Walking Dead Volume One, The Walking Dead Volume Two, Persepolis, and Superman: Earth One.

That’s the simple and untrue history of the graphic novel, and of A Contract With God in particular. Decades hence, we know more about how what we call the graphic novel came to be, what A Contract With God had to do with it, and how this seminal work was not always viewed with such esteem.


 

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Comics Underground celebrates the life of Will Eisner (slideshow 1 of 2) (Examiner.com)

Published on April 21, 2013 by in comic books, Comics, Graphic Novels, Will Eisner Week
Diana Schutz, Dark Horse Comics editor

Diana Schutz, Dark Horse Comics editor

Diana Schutz, Dark Horse Comics editor

By Christian Lipski

In honor of Will Eisner Week (the week of March 6th every year), Portland publisher Dark Horse Comics joined up with the Comics Underground live-reading event to present a tribute to the comic book legend. In a switch from the normal Comics Underground show, all the participants read from Eisner’s last book, Last Day In Vietnam.

Starting off the evening was Dark Horse editor Diana Schutz, who worked with Eisner on Last Day In Vietnam, Eisner’s recollections of his time as both a soldier and reporter in several wars. Schutz talked about her time with Eisner on the book, and was followed by the local comics talent that she invited to participate.

Brian Michael Bendis (Powers, Ultimate Spider-Man) read the first story in the book, a first-person perspective of a reporter who is shown around an encampment by a soldier on his last day.

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2013 Eisner Award Nominees Announced, led by Fatale, Hawkeye (The Beat)

Published on April 17, 2013 by in comic book artists, Comic Book Writers, comic books, Comic Strips, Comics, Graphic Novels, Will Eisner, Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
Eisner Awards 2013

Eisner Awards 2013

Eisner Awards 2013

Fatale, Book 2: The Devil's Business

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Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees 2013

Best Short Story
“A Birdsong Shatters the Still,” by Jeff Wilson and Ted May, in Injury #4 (Ted May/Alternative)
“Elmview” by Jon McNaught, in Dockwood (Nobrow)
“Moon 1969: The True Story of the 1969 Moon Launch,” by Michael Kupperman, in Tales Designed to Thrizzle #8 (Fantagraphics)
“Moving Forward,” by drewscape, in Monsters, Miracles, & Mayonnaise (Epigram Press)
“Rainbow Moment,” by Lilli Carré, in Heads or Tails (Fantagraphics)

Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)
Lose #4: “The Fashion Issue,” by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
The Mire, by Becky Cloonan (self-published)
Pope Hats #3, by Ethan Rilly (AdHouse Books)
Post York #1, by James Romberger and Crosby (Uncivilized Books)
Tales Designed to Thrizzle #8, by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics)

Best Continuing Series
Fatale, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
Hawkeye, by Matt Fraction and David Aja (Marvel)
The Manhattan Projects, by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra (Image)
Prophet, by Brandon Graham and Simon Roy (Image)
Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)

Best New Series
Adventure Time, by Ryan North, Shelli Paroline, and Braden Lamb (kaboom!)
Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain)
Fatale, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
Hawkeye, by Matt Fraction and David Aja (Marvel)
Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)

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