Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner

The Eisners are presented annually before a packed ballroom at San Diego Comic-Con, America's largest comics convention. The 'Oscars' of the Comic Industry are called The Eisner Awards, and named after Will Eisner. This was followed by almost 20 additional graphic novels over the following 25 years. In 1978, Will Eisner wrote 'A Contract with God,' the first modern Graphic Novel. The textbooks that he wrote were based on his course and are still bestsellers. Will Eisner taught Sequential Art at the New York School of Visual Arts for 20 years. After the war this continued as the Army's 'PS Magazine' which is still being produced today. Mystic, Uncle Sam, Blackhawk, Sheena, and countless others.ĭuring World War II, Will Eisner used the comic format to develop training and equipment maintenance manuals for the US Army. In a career that spanned nearly eight decades - from the dawn of the comic book to the advent of digital comics - Will Eisner was truly the 'Father of the Graphic Novel' and the 'Orson Welles of Comics.' He broke new ground in the development of visual narrative and the language of comics and was the creator of The Spirit, John Law, Lady Luck, Mr. By the time of his death on January 3, 2005, Will Eisner was recognized internationally as one of the giants in the field of sequential art, a term he coined. Fully updated and revised to reflect current practices and technology, including a section on digital media, this introduction to the art of comics is as valuable a guide as it was when first published.Will Eisner was born on Main Brooklyn, New York.

He addresses dialogue, anatomy, framing, and many other important aspects of the art form. Eisner reveals here the fundamentals of graphic storytelling. Adapted from Eisner's landmark course at New York's School of Visual Arts, Comics and Sequential Art is an essential text filled with invaluable theories and easy-to-use techniques. Here, in his classic Comics and Sequential Art, he refines the art of graphic storytelling into clear, concise principles that every cartoonist, comic artist, writer, and filmmaker meeds to know. Will Eisner is one of the twentieth century's great American artists, a man who pioneered the field of comic arts. ' Comics and Sequential Art is a masterwork, the distillation of Will Eisner's genius to a clear and potent elixir.'-Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner