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Eisner, Will was born on March 6, 1917 in New York City. Son of Samuel and Fannie (Ingber) Eisner.
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"There isn't a comics artists alive who hasn't benefited from Will Eisner's masterful work and formidable wisdom."―Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics In Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative, Will Eisner―one of the most influential comic artists of the twentieth century―lays out the fundamentals of storytelling and their application in the comic book and graphic novel. In a work that will prove invaluable for comic artists and filmmakers, Eisner reveals how to construct a story and the basics of crafting a visual narrative. Filled with examples from Eisner's work as well as that of artists like Art Spiegelman and R. Crumb, this essential work covers everything from the fine points of graphic storytelling to the big picture of the medium, including how to: • Combine words and images into seamless storytelling. • Wield images like narrative tools. • Master different types of comic book stories. • Write and illustrate effective dialogue. • Develop ideas that can be turned into dynamic stories.
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(Neste trabalho, Will Eisner combina critica social e lite...)
Neste trabalho, Will Eisner combina critica social e literaria, e busca dar ao personagem a complexidade que Dickens teria negligenciado. Forcado a cometer pequenos delitos para sobreviver, Fagin fica orfao ainda na infancia e ve todas suas chances de progredir na vida barradas pelo preconceito. Ao receptar joias roubadas, ele acaba suspeito de um assassinato e e condenado a dez anos de exilio e trabalhos forcados. Somente apos cumprir a pena e que Fagin volta a Londres e conhece Oliver Twist. Penultimo trabalho realizado por Eisner antes de morrer, o livro e um panorama das agruras e sucessos dos imigrantes judeus na Inglaterra do seculo XIX e um acerto de contas com o anti-semitismo de Dickens. Em Oliver Twist, ele apresenta Fagin como um estereotipo do judeu mesquinho e avarento - o que, segundo Eisner, ajudou a cristalizar o preconceito contra os judeus na cultura moderna. O autor expoe seu ponto de vista sobre a questao, no prefacio e no posfacio do livro, que ainda traz reproducoes de charges de famosos ilustradores do seculo XIX, selecionadas pelo autor.
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DESCRIPTION: Nota: En los titulos y nombres de autores, los marcos ortograficos han sido omitidos para facilitar las busquedas de Internet. Description del libro en espanol: Will Eisner, el maestro de la narrativa grafica, nos ofrece un nuevo album en el que despliega todo su arte para adaptar la vida de Fagin, el judio de Oliver Twist. Siguiendo la estela de obras como Las reglas del Juego o Contrato con Dios, Eisner nos presenta una nueva obra maestra donde se demuestra que el comic no tiene edad. Book Description in English: A new "Twist" on a Classic Story. . . Fagin the Jew brings new depth and insight to one of literature's most infamous characters, recasting Oliver Twist from the perspective of Fagin. With this work, Will Eisner proves himself once again to be not only a master of comic storytelling but also an incisive literary and social critic. The project was first conceived as an introduction to a pictorial adaptation of Oliver Twist, but as he learned more about the history of Dickens-era Jewish life in London, Eisner uncovered intriguing material that led him to create this new work. In the course of his research, Eisner came to believe that Dickens had not intended to defame Jews in his famous depiction. By referring to Fagin as "the Jew" throughout the book, however, he had perpetuated the common prejudice; his fictional creation imbedded itself in the public’s imagination as the classic profile of a Jew. In his award-winning style, Eisner recasts the notorious villain as a complex and troubled antihero and gives him the opportunity to tell his tale in his own words. Depicting Fagin’s choices and actions within a historical context, Eisner captures the details of life in London’s Ashkenazi community and brilliantly re-creates the social milieu of Dickensian England. Eisner's fresh, compelling look at prejudice, poverty, and anti-Semitism lends an extraordinary richness to his artwork, ever evocative and complex. Like the modern classics Maus and The Jew of New York, Fagin the Jew blends image and prose in an unforgettable exploration of history.
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Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist by Eisner, Will ( Author ) Paperback Jul- 2008 Paperback Jul- 01- 2008
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( An extraordinary autobiography story from a legend in A...)
An extraordinary autobiography story from a legend in American comics. A historical novel touching on prejudice, assimilation, and anti-Semitism, this sweeping saga takes us from New York in the eighteenth century to Vienna before World War I, and finally to America during the depression and World War II.
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“Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him.”―John Updike In Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood, Eisner graphically traces the social trajectory of this mythic avenue over four centuries, creating a sweeping panorama of the city and its waves of new residents, whose stories present an unending “story of life, death, and resurrection.”
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"An American storyteller, like Ray Bradbury, like O. Henry."―Neil Gaiman With an unparalleled eye for stories and expressive illustration, Will Eisner, the master and pioneer of American comics art, presents graphic fiction's greatest celebration of the Big Apple. No illustrator evoked the melancholy duskiness of New York City as expressively as Eisner, who knew the city from the bottom up. This new hardcover presents a quartet of graphic works (New York, The Building, City People Notebook, and Invisible People) and features what Neil Gaiman describes as "tales as brutal, as uncaring as the city itself." From ancient buildings "barnacled with laughter and stained with tears" to the subways, "humorless iron reptiles, clacking stupidly on a webbing of graceful steel rails," Will Eisner's New York includes cameo appearances by the author himself; several new illustrations sketched by Eisner, posthumously inked by Peter Poplaski; and three previously unpublished "out-takes"―a treasure for any Eisner fan, and sure to become a collectible. Introduction by Neil Gaiman.
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( Published quietly in 1978, Will Eisner's revolutionary ...)
Published quietly in 1978, Will Eisner's revolutionary literary work A Contract With God marked the invention of the modern graphic novel, took on a life of its own, and inspired a generation of "sequential artists." Will Eisner (1917–2005) saw himself as "a graphic witness reporting on life, death, heartbreak, and the never-ending struggle to prevail." The publication of A Contract With God when Eisner was sixty-one proved to be a watershed moment both for him and for comic literature. It marked the birth of the modern graphic novel and the beginning of an era when serious cartoonists could be liberated from their stultifying comic-book format. More than a quarter-century after the initial publication of A Contract With God, and in the last few months of his life, Eisner chose to combine the three fictional works he had set on Dropsie Avenue, the mythical street of his youth in Depression-era New York City. As the dramas unfold in A Contract With God, the first book in this new trilogy, it is at 55 Dropsie Avenue where Frimme Hersh, the pious Jew, first loses his beloved daughter, then breaks his contract with his maker, and ends up as a slumlord; it is on Dropsie Avenue where a street singer, befriended by an aging diva, is so beholden to the bottle that he fails to grasp his chance for stardom; and it is there that a scheming little girl named Rosie poisons a depraved super’s dog before doing in the super as well. In the second book, A Life Force, declared by R. Crumb to be "a masterpiece," Eisner re-creates himself in his protagonist, Jacob Shtarkah, whose existential search reflected Eisner’s own lifelong struggle. Chronicling not only the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of left-wing politics, Eisner combined the miniaturist sensibility of Henry Roth with the grand social themes of novelists such as Dos Passos and Steinbeck. Finally, in Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood, Eisner graphically traces the social trajectory of this mythic avenue over four centuries, creating a sweeping panorama of the city and its waves of new residents―the Dutch, English, Irish, Jews, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans―whose faces changed yet whose lives presented an unending "story of life, death, and resurrection." The Contract With God Trilogy is a mesmerizing, fictional chronicle of a universal American experience and Eisner’' most poignant and enduring literary legacy.
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("An American storyteller, like Ray Bradbury, like O. Henr...)
"An American storyteller, like Ray Bradbury, like O. Henry."—Neil Gaiman With an unparalleled eye for stories and expressive illustration, Will Eisner, the master and pioneer of American comics art, presents graphic fiction's greatest celebration of the Big Apple. No illustrator evoked the melancholy duskiness of New York City as expressively as Eisner, who knew the city from the bottom up. This new hardcover presents a quartet of graphic works (New York, The Building, City People Notebook, and Invisible People) and features what Neil Gaiman describes as "tales as brutal, as uncaring as the city itself." From ancient buildings "barnacled with laughter and stained with tears" to the subways, "humorless iron reptiles, clacking stupidly on a webbing of graceful steel rails," Will Eisner's New York includes cameo appearances by the author himself; several new illustrations sketched by Eisner, posthumously inked by Peter Poplaski; and three previously unpublished "out-takes"—a treasure for any Eisner fan, and sure to become a collectible. Introduction by Neil Gaiman.
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( This powerful graphic novel confirms Will Eisner as a m...)
This powerful graphic novel confirms Will Eisner as a master of the genre. In this classic graphic novel, Will Eisner’s pen cuts an expansive swath through all aspects of the human condition. A powerful portrayal of Jewish life in the New York City of Eisner’s youth, Minor Miracles encourages similar introspection as it examines how luck and coincidence converge in everyday life in ways that, in hindsight, seem miraculous.
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(This book is based on the course taught by Will Eisner at...)
This book is based on the course taught by Will Eisner at New York's School of Visual Art and it contains an accumulation of his ideas, theories and advice on the practice of graphic story-telling and the uses to which the comic book art form can be applied. It is designed to be a useful guide to the serious student, practicing professionals and involved teachers.
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(Presents two drawing textbooks "Comics and Sequential Art...)
Presents two drawing textbooks "Comics and Sequential Art" and "Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative". "Comics and Sequential Art" reveals the basic building blocks and principles of comics, including imagery, the frame, and the application of time, space and visual forms.
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(From his early newspaper comics to the sophisticated grap...)
From his early newspaper comics to the sophisticated graphic novels he produces today, Will Eisner has been a pioneering force in comics for more than sixty years. Ron Goulart, writing in Book World, declared, “A shrewd, thoughtful man, Eisner has always had a knack for deftly combining dialogue and images to tell his story,” and fellow graphic novelist Alan Moore simply said, “Eisner is the single person most responsible for giving comics its BRAINS.” And Amazon.com, which called him "the Elvis of comics," said, "It's fair to say that Eisner invented modern comic art." In FAGIN THE JEW, Eisner proves himself to be not only a master of comic storytelling, but also an incisive literary and social critic. This project was first conceived as an introduction to a pictorial adaptation of Oliver Twist, but as he learned more about the history of Dickens-era Jewish life in London, Eisner uncovered intriguing material that led him to create this new work. In the course of his research, Eisner came to believe that Dickens had not intended to defame Jews in his famous depiction. By referring to Fagin as “the Jew” throughout the book, however, he had perpetuated the common prejudice; his fictional creation imbedded itself in the public’s imagination as the classic profile of a Jew. In his award-winning style, Eisner recasts the notorious villain as a complex and troubled antihero and gives him the opportunity to tell his tale in his own words. Depicting Fagin’s choices and actions within a historical context, Eisner captures the details of life in London’s Ashkenazi community and brilliantly re-creates the social milieu of Dickensian England. Eisner's fresh, compelling look at prejudice, poverty, and anti-Semitism lends an extraordinary richness to his artwork, ever evocative and complex. Like the modern classics Maus and The Jew of New York, FAGIN THE JEW blends image and prose in an unforgettable exploration of history.
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Released to coincide with Will Eisner Week—the annual celebration of Eisner’s life and work—Last Day in Vietnam is now available in a handsome new hardcover edition! Last Day in Vietnam recounts the artist’s own experiences with soldiers engaged not only in the daily hostilities of war but also in larger, more personal combat. Some of the stories in this novel are comical, some heartrending, some frightening, yet all display the incredible insight into humanity characteristic of Eisner’s entire oeuvre. Printed with special sepia ink and in hardcover for the first time, this new edition gives this modern classic the literary presentation it deserves!
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( One of four extraordinary graphic novels celebrating th...)
One of four extraordinary graphic novels celebrating the Big Apple, from the master of American comics art. A haunting trio of stories about life’s forgotten shut-ins in the tradition of Kafka, Gogol, and Melville.
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(Comics luminary Will Eisner takes on literary giant Charl...)
Comics luminary Will Eisner takes on literary giant Charles Dickens, in this fascinating retelling of the life of Oliver Twist's Fagin! Imagining Fagin's impoverished childhood in the slums of London and his initiation into the criminal underworld, Eisner's story counters the anti-Semitism of Victorian literature as his gorgeous brushwork creates an evocative portrait of the era. * Now with Eisner's previously unused full-color cover art! * Foreword by Brian Michael Bendis! * Introduction by Dickens scholar Jeet Heer!
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Eisner, Will was born on March 6, 1917 in New York City. Son of Samuel and Fannie (Ingber) Eisner.
Student, Art Student's League, New York City, 1935.
President, American Visuals Corporation, since 1949;
president, North America Newspaper Alliance, 1962-1964;
president, Ednl. Supplements Corporation, 1965-1972;
executive vice president, Koster-Dana Corporation, 1962-1964;
Chairman of the Board, Croft Ednl. Services Corporation, since 1972.
Member faculty School Visual Arts, New York City, since 1973.
(Comics luminary Will Eisner takes on literary giant Charl...)
(Released to coincide with Will Eisner Week—the annual cel...)
(This book is based on the course taught by Will Eisner at...)
(Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from ...)
( Published quietly in 1978, Will Eisner's revolutionary ...)
((W/A) Will Eisner In Comics and Sequential Art, Will Eisn...)
(From his early newspaper comics to the sophisticated grap...)
(DESCRIPTION: Nota: En los titulos y nombres de autores, l...)
(Neste trabalho, Will Eisner combina critica social e lite...)
( "There isn't a comics artists alive who hasn't benefite...)
(Presents two drawing textbooks "Comics and Sequential Art...)
( One of four extraordinary graphic novels celebrating th...)
( “Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present ti...)
( This powerful graphic novel confirms Will Eisner as a m...)
( An extraordinary autobiography story from a legend in A...)
( An extraordinary autobiography story from a legend in A...)
(Fagin the Jew BY Eisner, Will ( Author ) { Hardcover } 2013)
( "An American storyteller, like Ray Bradbury, like O. He...)
("An American storyteller, like Ray Bradbury, like O. Henr...)
(Detailed instruction for storytelling through comics)
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Trustee International Museum Cartoon Art, 1994. Member Illustrators Society New York City, International Museum Cartoon Art (board of trustees), Scottish Cartoonist Society (honorary president), Svenska Serieaka demins Goteborg (diplomate), Princeton Club (New York City).
Married Ann Louise Weingarten, June 15, 1950. Children: John David, Alice Carol (deceased).