January 3, 2006
Will Eisner’s Passing One Year Later
The comics great Will Eisner passed away one year ago today; it seems he shares a date of passing with Andre Franquin. That's the kind of thing you notice with the persepctive that develops over time. You also notice how the legacy begins to settle into place, and it's a sign that the comics field is being covered in a more respectful, thorough fashion that most of what I remember seeing the last 12 months praised his prodigious talent and recognized him as a graphic novel pioneer without getting caught up in the details of one of comics nerdiest credit tussles, that of where the graphic novel came from. I was also happy to see in a Dave Sim interview (I can't remember where, or if he was interviewer or interviewee) the reintroduction of how hard
A Contract With God hit a certain generation of cartoonists, not for the format, but for its tone and execution.
Eisner biographer Bob Andelman wrote in his
A Spirited Life e-newsletter this morning about the one-year anniversary, and noted the following projects for 2005:
* the biography
*
The Contract With God Trilogy, from WW Norton.
*
The Best of the Spirit, DC Comics
*
The Spirit Archives Volume 17, DC Comics
* a special issue of
Comic Book Artist
* a day of Eisner-related programming at the International Comic Arts Festival
* dual documentaries debuting at least in part at Comic-Con International.
* Eisner's first museum art showing at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
*
The Plot, WW Norton
* a staging of
Dropsie Avenue in Brazil
It seems somehow fitting that the first year after Eisner's passing would feature enough activity for any two living cartoonists.
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