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Artist Jenny Frison was asked to do an exclusive cover for ComiXology's SDCC exclusive Will Eisner's The Spirit Here we get to see the different roughs she came up with before choosing a final version and making an awesome cover Interesting to see she had almost everything already in mind just changed how much of[...]

You take one of the best cover artists in the industry, have him draw an iconic character from one of the most celebrated creators of all time, put it on a limited edition of the definitive price guide and have all the money go to a charity to help creators in need… that all sounds[...]

These include Will Eisner's The Spirit, The Shadow, The Avenger and more. JUSTICE, INC.: THE AVENGER #4 Cover: Francesco Francavilla Writer: Mark Waid Art: Ronilson Freire With Justice, Inc in shambles, the Avenger must face the Invisible Death alone in the skies over the Eastern Seaboard–and be willing to sacrifice his life to save his country from an[...]

They include the second issue of Will Eisner's The Spirit and the final issue of Warren Ellis' take on Project Superpowers: Blackcross. Justice, Inc.: The Avenger #3 Cover: Francesco Francavilla Writer: Mark Waid Art: Ronilson Freire The secret of the Invisible Death is revealed–but not before it claims one of Benson's own teammates in a tragedy that will[...]

Where the first four names are all providing covers for the first issue of Dynamite's latest relaunch, Will Eisner's The Spirit… Schkade is providing the interior art for the adventures and more so than the others, he has to live up to the bar set by the legendary artist From the looks of these initial[...]

The previously announced revival of Will Eisner's The Spirit by Dynamite has finally gotten an artist attached Already signed on to write the scripts is comic legend Matt Wagner Now you can add Dan Schkade for interior art with colors by Brennan Wagner There will also be covers for each issue by Eric Powell But[...]

While at the ComicsPro meeting, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund had an auction and among the items put up was a Matt Wagner page and sketch to go along

Dynamite has gotten the rights to publish all-new adventures featuring Will Eisner's legendary crime fighter Denny Colt, The Spirit And the series will be written by the award-winning comic creator Matt Wagner The new series will celebrate seventy-five years of The Spirit, and its #1 launch issue will feature cover artwork by Alex Ross, Eric Powell, and[...]

Fantagraphics, Top Shelf, Knockabout, Blank Slate, Self Made Hero, those are the kind of publishers you expect to find there. Well, now they have sold out to the man. Because they had done a deal with Dark Horse to list their graphic novels as well. Which means Dark Horse, which prided itself on its own independent digital app,[...]

Will Eisner Week is the first week of March this year, and retailers are getting discounts to stock up on relevant titles Aimed at promoting literacy, free speech and comic books as a whole, in the light of a greater variety of graphic novels available, the greater public awareness of comic books – or at[...]

More than twenty cities including, New York, San Francisco, Cambridge, Seattle, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, London, Glasgow, and Rio de Janeiro, will come together to celebrate Will Eisner Week 2015, this coming March Planned around the week of Eisner's March 6th birthday, the Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation, will present a series of events with[...]

Here are some of the highlights from these panels that could help you create your own publication. Joey Cavalieri I was surprised to see that Cavalieri was using old titles such as the pre-NuDC's The Spirit and Zatanna to illuminate his keynote speech of the day, rather than his recent work on Future's End, but then he[...]

As he has before, Will Eisner's iconic hero, The Spirit, is coming back to life This time being published by Dynamite Entertainment. Originally published in 1939 by Quality Comics, The Spirit is the story of a murdered cop named Denny Colt who was mysteriously brought back to life to fight crime. "Bringing The Spirit to Dynamite is a dream come true. [...]

But Kitchen was always "scrupulous about accounting", learning from his Print Mint experience, and paid a royalty higher than normal for Crumb, which he later realized that Crumb hadn't even noticed was a factor. The conversation then shifted to Kitchen's history with Will Eisner, who he met as a businessman in 1971, at one of the[...]

That's not to say the students knew the names Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, or Frank Miller, but they already had encountered many of the characters these creators had worked on. 2 Their knowledge of comics comes largely from the film industry. The greatest source of their comics knowledge, without question, was Hollywood While very few students had[...]

Segar, Bud Sagendorf, Frank Frazetta, Dean Yeagle, Jack Cole, Mort Walker, Bob Powell, Rube Goldberg, Thomas Nast, Chester Gould, Boody Rogers and Will Eisner There have also been Ernie Bushmiller, Matt Groening, Jules Feiffer, Al Capp, Mike Mignola, John Stanley, Bruce Timm, Steve Ditko, Wally Wood and many more luminaries! In the Alice book alone we[...]

Monday, March 3rd A Will Eisner Week event, "Will Eisner, Champion of the Graphic Novel" will be held in conjunction with the New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium at Parsons, The New School, 2 West 13th Street, New York, NY, in the Bark Room (off the lobby) from 7PM to 9PM Writer Paul Levitz (former president/publisher[...]

They call him The King for a reason. Will Eisner – Eisner, along with Kirby, defined and created what comic art should be He pushed the boundaries and experimented in ways no one else was and now everyone is doing The Spirit was ground breaking and Eisner was the first to popularize the term Graphic Novel[...]

Will Eisner, who was editing the section for the paper, was also writing and drawing the series during the early days, before handing the duties to some big name collaborators that included Jack Cole, Wally Wood, Joe Kubert, and Jules Feiffer And for the next seventy years, the Spirit would make appearances with multiple publishers[...]

Wow, is it Friday morning already?  Today's most-read post is about DC trades and GNs: DC Comics are looking to reduced their stock of the following books

To date, IDW's Artist's Edition format has reprinted the original artwork of the likes of Will Eisner, Dave Stevens, Wally Wood, David Mazzuchelli, Walter Simonson and John Romita Sr Big mainstream names in serious action comics. But I understand that at Wondercon, IDW are to announce a major diversion from that And it's one that's surprising[...]

Created in 1940 by artist Lou Fine and (presumed) writer Will Eisner, the Ray debuted in Smash Comics #14, cover-dated September 1940, making him Quality's second superhero, following Eisner's Uncle Sam The Ray's origin was far from deep, with the explanation for his powers being something to the effect of exposure to lightning and sunlight[...]

What happens when I take a break to play a little Goldeneye of an evening? They announce the Eisner nominations for 2011. This was the year for Archaia's

On the date of what would have been Will Eisner's 94th birthday, Bleeding Cool presents an unpublished interview from sixteen years ago. On Wednesday 5 July 1995, the legendary Will Eisner appeared in person to accept the honorary presidency of the Scottish Cartoonists and Comic Artist Members club. The club no longer exists, having been replaced long[...]

If it's March 6th where you are visit Google and you'll see a Google logo featuring Will Eisner's The Spirit and done in the style of his famous opening title pages The search engine giant also invited Scott McCloud to do a post on the subject of Eisner's legacy for his 94th birthday (and[...]