Will Eisner: Conversations

Contents

vii CONTENTS Introduction ix Chronology xv The Only Real Middle-Class Crimefighter 3 Marilyn Mercer / 1965 Having Something to Say 8 John Benson / 1968 Will Eisner: Before the Comics 24 John Benson / 1973 An Interview with Will Eisner 33 Dave Sim / 1974 An Interview with Will Eisner 40 Jerry DeFuccio / 1976 Will Eisner Interview 47 cat yronwode / 1978 A Talk with Will Eisner 79 Ted White, Mitch Berger, and Mike Barson / 1983 Will Eisner 87 Dale Luciano / 1985 Mastering the Form: An Interview with Will Eisner 103 Ben Schwartz / 1988 viii contents A Cartoonist’s Cartoonist 108 Elinor Burkett / 1989 Getting the Last Laugh: My Life in Comics 113 Will Eisner / 1990 Will Eisner: The Old Man on the Mountain 121 Stanley Wiater and Stephen R. Bisette / 1993 Night of the Paper Noir 131 Peter DePree / 1996 Will Eisner’s Vision and the Future of the Comics 176 R. C. Harvey / 1998 Interview: Will Eisner 185 Tasha Robinson / 2000 Eisner Wide Open 196 Tom Heintjes / 2000 The Spirit of Comics! The Will Eisner Interview 205 Danny Fingeroth / 2003 Auteur Theory 220 Michael Kronenberg / 2004 Index 231 ...