Brad Bird's test animation for Will Eisner's The Spirit

The Treatment podcast: Brad Bird and Elvis Mitchell talk Will Eisner!

Brad Bird's test animation for Will Eisner's The Spirit

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Gary Kurtz, Will Eisner, Brad Bird (I think)

I knew that Disney Pixar animator Brad Bird tried and failed to get an animated version of Will Eisner’s The Spirit produced several years ago, but couldn’t get an interview with him to get the details when I wrote Will Eisner: A Spirited Life, a biography by Bob Andelman. So it was quite cool to hear him fill in the details in this podcast/radio conversation with Elvis Mitchell on KCRW’s “The Treatment.” Didn’t realize Mitchell, who is a consulting producer on The CW’s Black Lightning was himself such an Eisner fan!

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Bob Andelman @andelman (Twitter)

Bob Andelman is the host and producer of Mr. Media® Interviews. He is also the author or co-author of 15 books, including The Wawa Way with Howard Stoeckel, Building Atlanta with Herman J. Russell, Fans Not Customers with Vernon W. Hill, founder of Commerce Bank and Metro Bank UK, Mind Over Business with Ken Baum, The Consulate with Thomas R. Stutler, The Profiler with Pat Brown, Built From Scratch with the founders of The Home Depot, The Profit Zone with Adrian Slywotzky, Mean Business with Albert J. Dunlap, and Will Eisner: A Spirited Life. Click here to see Bob Andelman's Amazon Central author page. He is a member in good standing of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (member page).