Neil Gaiman Reports Will Eisner’s Passing
Will Eisner, the man who gave Jack Kirby his start is dead at the age of 87. Neil Gaiman tells a little of what Eisner meant to him.
I was woken up this morning, with the news that Will had died last night, aged 87, and I’ve let a few friends know, and already had to speak to one journalist about who Will was and what he did (”It’s as if Orson Welles had made Citizen Kane and redefined what you could do in film, and then carried on making movies until now,” I said, wishing I could come up with a better analogy, and knowing that that didn’t explain it. And I didn’t mention how proud he was of any of us who did good comics — how much he cared about the medium — or how glad I am that I got to tell him that I wouldn’t have written comics if it wasn’t for him. There’s a reason that the Oscars of comics are the Eisner Awards.)
Eisner created the graphic novel that Gaiman has done so well with.
Entertainment | Larry D. Burton | 05 January 2005 |
