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The Will Eisner Companion

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I purchased this book the night before Will Eisner passed away so this book was even more meaningful to me when I read it.

This a great book to get if you like works written on comics creators. Why? If Will Eisner hadn't existed comics would be a very different medium today.

Graphic Novels might not exist, or might not be available for sale outside a comic shop if not for him.

Devices like the splash page might not have come to be if it were not for this man.

He gave Jack Kirby and many other industry notables some of their first professional assignments.

His list of accomplishments goes on and on. Eisner truly helped to shape the world of comic books as we know it.

This hardcover even contains a couple of his Spirit stories as well as many illustrations that show why this man was so talented.

They say that Jack Kirby was the King of Comics but if it wasn't for Eisner there might not have been the great Kirby works of the '60s and '70s. If it wasn't for Eisner many classic sequential art stories might have been told very differently.

If you like comics you owe it to yourself to pick up this book and other works by and about the amazing Will Eisner.

The book is very good but it isn't perfect. On the positive side it orgainizes and presents a pile of information in a lucid and straight forward manner. The sections on the Spirit are fairly comprehensive and I'm sure that I'm going to be using the A to Z listing for years to come. The section on Eisner's post-Spirit work does a nice job of informing old and new readers alike not only to content of the GN's but also to the wide variety of material that's available. However, there are a couple of things that come down on the negative side. Why was the typeface so small? For that matter why was the book so small to begin with? And I don't know about any one else but I found the index page to be so damn small that it was rendered useless. However, it still remains a usefull reference work for any Eisner fan.