Tag Archive | "Will Eisner"

Eisner and the Best Of PS Magazine

Monday, August 1, 2011

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Coming in September – The Best Of Will Eisner’s P.S. Magazine. The link between Eisner’s Spirit and his later work, an instructive series designed and executed with wit, flair and, of course, great skill. This was pretty much a must buy anyway for a lot of people but I can only imagine these words from [...]

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Steranko goodness and damned fine cover art

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

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Paul Tobin is running a favourite cover artist countdown on his blog, with the great Steranko at #9, which gives us a good excuse to borrow one of the covers Paul’s celebrating and share it on here – any excuse for some fab Steranko art (thanks to Dave Gibbons for the link): (Steranko puts Nick [...]

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A Contract With God – the movie….

Sunday, August 1, 2010

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Missed this a week ago, but Heidi has all the news you need (or at least the full PR copy anyway). Will Eisner’s seminal graphic novel A Contract With God is heading to the big screen. “Legendary comic book master Will Eisner’s groundbreaking graphic novel “A Contract with God” is being adapted into a live [...]

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Will Eisner Week

Saturday, January 16, 2010

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From the Will Eisner.com website: “Join us in an ongoing celebration promoting graphic novel literacy, free speech awareness, and the legacy of Will Eisner. The second annual celebration of Will Eisner’s contribution to comics and American culture and is offered as a springboard to advance education of comics and graphic novels in all communities around [...]

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Paul Pope on Will Eisner and design… Eddie Campbell on Eisner’s missing period…

Sunday, October 4, 2009

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Bit of an Eisner-a-thon right now: Paul Pope has a blog post on the late, great Will Eisner concentrating on some of his design work, as featured in Baseline magazine. (The issue in question is from 1990 and will set you back £40 here). Click on the picture for a bigger version via Pope’s website [...]

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Spirit en Fraincais….

Sunday, August 23, 2009

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And isn’t that just gorgeous? Our very own Wim at his Ephemerist blog points this one out. A beautiful cover image by Thierry Martin for a French Spirit magazine coming in 2010. If the rest of the mag has that quality of art expect to see more of it here. (illustration © Thierry Martin)

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