. . . "2005-01-03"^^ . . . "__NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none Will Eisner File:Will Eisner2.jpg Gallery Real Name William Erwin Eisner Pseudonyms Will Eisner; Carl Heck; Willis B. Rensie; W. Morgan Thomas; Erwin Willis; Wm. Irwin Employers [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: Staff]], [[|]][[Category: St"@en . . . . . . . . "New York"@en . . "2005"^^ . . . . . . . . "dessinateurs, sc\u00E9naristes, encreur"@fr . "1917"^^ . . . . . . . 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"6"^^ . . . "William Erwin Eisner"@fr . . . . . . . . "William Erwin \"Will\" Eisner was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series The Spirit was noted for its experiments in content and form. In 1978, he popularized the term \"graphic novel\" with the publication of his book A Contract with God. He was an early contributor to formal comics studies with his book Comics and Sequential Art . The Eisner Award was named in Eisner's honor, and is given to recognize achievements each year in the comics medium; he was one of the three inaugural inductees to the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.\nEarly life and career\n|thumb|left|Wow, What a Magazine! #3 (Sept. 1936): Cover art by a teenage Eisner.\nEisner was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Jewish immigrants. His parents provided a modest life for their son. His mother was from Romania and served as the more practical and realistic parent, firmly believing that her son\u2019s artistic tendencies would never amount to any kind of success in life. His father, an artist, was born in Vienna, Austria. He painted backdrops for Vaudeville and the Jewish theater but was also a semi-successful entrepreneur and, at one point, a manufacturer in Manhattan's Seventh Avenue garment district. Believing his son should value creativity and art, the elder Eisners instilled in him a sense of duality, a balance between business and art. \n\nEisner attended DeWitt Clinton High School. With influences that included the early 20th-century commercial artist J. C. Leyendecker, he drew for the school newspaper , the literary magazine and the yearbook, and did stage design, leading him to consider doing that kind of work for theater. Upon graduation, he studied under Canadian artist George Brandt Bridgman for a year at the Art Students League of New York. Contacts made there led to a position as an advertising writer-cartoonist for the New York American newspaper. Eisner also drew $10-a-page illustrations for pulp magazines, including Western Sheriffs and Outlaws.\n\nIn 1936, high-school friend and fellow cartoonist Bob Kane, of future Batman fame, suggested that the 19-year-old Eisner try selling cartoons to the new comic book Wow, What A Magazine! \"Comic books\" at the time were tabloid-sized collections of comic strip reprints in color. In 1935, they had begun to include occasional new comic strip-like material. Wow editor Jerry Iger bought an Eisner adventure strip called Captain Scott Dalton, an H. Rider Haggard-styled hero who traveled the world after rare artifacts. Eisner subsequently wrote and drew the pirate strip \"The Flame\" and the secret agent strip \"Harry Karry\" for Wow as well.\n\nEisner said that on one occasion a man who Eisner described as \"a mob type straight out of Damon Runyon, complete with pinkie ring, broken nose, black shirt, and white tie, who claimed to have 'exclusive distribution rights for all Brooklyn\" asked Eisner to draw Tijuana bibles for $3 a page. Eisner said that he declined the offer; he described the decision as \"one of the most difficult moral decisions of my life.\"\nEisner & Iger\n\n\nWow lasted four issues . After it ended, Eisner and Iger worked together producing and selling original comics material, anticipating that the well of available reprints would soon run dry, though their accounts of how their partnership was founded differ. One of the first such comic-book \"packagers\", their partnership was an immediate success, and the two soon had a stable of comics creators supplying work to Fox Comics, Fiction House, Quality Comics"@en . . . "March"@en . "3"^^ . . . . "87"^^ . . . "1917-03-06"^^ . . . . "USA"@en . "Will Eisner"@en . "Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, USA"@en . . "De nombreuses distinctions dans le domaine des comics"@fr . . "Comic Art; Kitchen Sink Press"@en . . . . "Lauderdale Lakes"@fr . . "William Erwin Eisner"@en . "January"@en . . . "Will Eisner est un auteur de bande dessin\u00E9e am\u00E9ricain n\u00E9 le 6 mars 1917 dans le borough new-yorkais de Brooklyn et d\u00E9c\u00E9d\u00E9 le 3 janvier 2005 \u00E0 Lauderdale Lakes (Floride), des suites d'un quadruple pontage coronarien."@fr . . . . . . . . . . . "Will Eisner"@fr . . . . . "Will Eisner"@fr . "Will Eisner; Carl Heck; Willis B. Rensie; W. Morgan Thomas; Erwin Willis; Wm. Irwin"@en . . . . "New York City"@en . . . . . "Male"@en . . . "Writer; Penciler; Inker; Cover Artist"@en . . . . . . . "Will Eisner est un auteur de bande dessin\u00E9e am\u00E9ricain n\u00E9 le 6 mars 1917 dans le borough new-yorkais de Brooklyn et d\u00E9c\u00E9d\u00E9 le 3 janvier 2005 \u00E0 Lauderdale Lakes (Floride), des suites d'un quadruple pontage coronarien."@fr . . "180"^^ . . . . . . . . "Will Eisner en 2001"@fr . .