Ebook {Epub PDF} Will Eisner: A Spirited Life by Bob Andelman

Will Eisner, a spirited life by Andelman, Bob. Publication date Topics Biography: User Interaction Count: Will Eisner, A Spirited Life () by Bob Andelman is the first authorized biography that explores Eisner's amazing life, detailing a career that spanned seventy years. The biography features interviews with many of Eisner's contemporaries such as Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Neil Gaiman, Denis Kitchen, Jim Warren, Dave Sim, Denny O'Neil and Stan Lee. Bob Andelman is the author or co-author of 15 books, including his first biography, Will Eisner: A Spirited Life. Three of his co-authored books - Built From Scratch (written with the founders of The Home Depot), The Profit Zone (with Adrian Slywotzky) and Mean Business (with Albert J Dunlap, a new, updated edition was published in ) - were business bestsellers/5(11).

This beautifully illustrated biography explores the fascinating life of Will Eisner, detailing a career that exceeds six decades in which Eisner spearheaded the cause of comics for adult readers and created the first widely accepted graphic novel, A Contract with God. Eisner's influence has been felt by such diverse talents as Batman creator Bob Kane and Jack Kirby. When I was researching my biography, Will Eisner, A Spirited Life, one of the biggest surprises for me was learning that two extremely successful daily cartoonists, Ray Billingsley of "Curtis," and Patrick McDonnell of "Mutts," were once students of Eisner's at the New York School of Visual Arts. Eisner spoke highly of both men, and he developed an ongoing mentor-style relationship. Will Eisner: A Spirited Life. Buy at Amazon. Will Eisner, A Spirited Life () by Bob Andelman is the first authorized biography that explores Eisner's amazing life, detailing a career that spanned seventy years.. The biography features interviews with many of Eisner's contemporaries such as Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Neil Gaiman, Denis Kitchen, Jim Warren, Dave Sim, Denny O'Neil and Stan Lee.

Will Eisner: A Spirited Life by Bob Andelman The creator or co-creator of every major Marvel Comics character from Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four to the X-Men and the Hulk, Lee—born Stanley Lieber, himself a graduate of Eisner’s alma mater, DeWitt Clinton High School—was editor and publisher of the Marvel line in Bob Andelman's WILL EISNER: A SPIRITED LIFE is a superb study of a great literary genius. Drawing enormously from a vast wealth of previously unavailable resources, the M Press book is made all the finer by the biographer's decision to focus on the man and, in doing so, draws a more acute, highly intimate bead on the influential. Share69Tweet+1SharePin69 Shares (NOTE: The following is an excerpt from the only authorized Will Eisner biography, Will Eisner: A Spirited Life by Bob Andelman. I am sharing it today as a little-known Stan Lee story on the day we learned of Continue Reading →.