Will Eisner: A Spirited Life by Bob Andelman

ShareTweet+1SharePin0 SharesWho knew this was going to be such an interesting week for cartooning and comic strip news? Not me. And not when I invited Alan Gardner to be my guest today. Alan is the editor of the wildly popular… Continue Reading →

ShareTweet+1SharePin0 SharesHere’s a fun blog post, in which Brian Cronin shows that Will Eisner & Co. presciently predicted the bombing of Pearl Harbor in National Comics No. 18—which was published in November 1941 and, obviously, produced many months before that…. Continue Reading →

ShareTweet+1SharePin0 Shares“The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics” Edited by Paul Gravett(Running Press, softcover, $17.95) Earlier this year, there was quite a stir of attention (and appropriately so) for author David Hajdu’s latest book, “The Ten Cent Plague: the Great… Continue Reading →

ShareTweet+1SharePin0 Shares“The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics” Edited by Paul Gravett(Running Press, softcover, $17.95) Earlier this year, there was quite a stir of attention (and appropriately so) for author David Hajdu’s latest book, “The Ten Cent Plague: the Great… Continue Reading →

ShareTweet+1SharePin0 SharesThanks to comic book blogger Tony Z, you can read the entire “Wonder Man” comic from May 1939, written and drawn by Will Eisner. He’s posted the pages—reproduced from microfiche—on his new “Golden Age Heroes” blog. (EDITOR’S NOTE 9/2/08–YIKES!… Continue Reading →