The unprecedented amount of attention being thrown Will Eisner’s way this year has raised an interesting issue on the WDWMagic.com boards: whose signature came first?
As Eisner’s biographer, I can’t say I know or that I remember asking Will. And I asked Andrew D. Cooke, who produced and director the Eisner documentary, Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist, and he didn’t know or ask either.
Anyone care to weigh in, here or there? Maybe Denis Kitchen knows?
March 5, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Perhaps there was a comic book style of writing. As all would have been initially handwritten, I’m sure stylisation or standards would have developed over time, as in the case of the handling of the ‘W’ and ‘i’.Jimmi Shah
March 5, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Perhaps there was a stylisation or lettering standard used within handwritten dialogue which had been developed over time. The ‘W’ and ‘i’ are similar but not the same. The Disney ‘i’, may have been a standard of a particular writer.artist who used it as a signature.