Will Eisner Passes Away

[filkertom]

Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn. Sontag, Chisholm, Freas.

Now Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit.

News and bio at Newsarama.

Damn.

Comments

[nubianamy.livejournal.com]

Ouch. That's quite a loss. =(

Geez...

[romlc475.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going home from work early sick to my soul.I don't think we can say "Damn" enough lately for the mounting losses...:(

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

I knew it was bound to happen eventually. I'd hoped to have him autograph my copies of his graphic novels but I knew there wasn't much chance.

I still have much of his stuff to read, though, and I am thankful for that. Hey, he made it to his 90s and kept drawing pretty much the whole time.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

"Damn" is not the word...

I'm not sure a fitting word even exists.

[wayward-va.livejournal.com]

I get this weird feeling that a lot of good people who wanted to see the twenty-first century took a look and decided it was not a place they could live. Foolish, I know, but it's the vibe that runs thru all this. Good people have seen the future and decided it was not for them.

I think it was Yogi Berra who said "The future isn't what it used to be."

-----wayward

Well, if ya need some cheering up, Tom...

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

David Simpson, the guy I told you about, who makes that "I Drew This" comic... He'll be giving a concert in Aye-Squared this Wednesday...

"I'll be playing at the open mic at the Alley Bar in Ann Arbor. (It's on Liberty Ave., just across from Starbucks--not the Starbucks by Borders, the other Starbucks.)
It's Wednesday night at 9, though it's unlikely I'll be all that punctual."

You two have SO got to meet! And if you need to break the ice, just bring your guitar along and play "Happy Conception Day". He'll like you already!

Re: Well, if ya need some cheering up, Tom...

[firedrake-mor.livejournal.com]

Oh, now THERE's a synergy which could be truly scary!

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

Insert Carlin's Seven Words Here.

I knew he'd just recently had a quadruple bypass done -- as has my father -- but this still comes as a nasty surprise.

I can only imagine what Scott McCloud's reaction was.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

May his Spirit live forever! 8'-(

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Additional: Neil Gaiman has a really nice tribute blog already:

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2005/01/will-eisner-1917-2005.asp

[skull-leader3.livejournal.com]

I interviewed my friend Will Eisner a few year ago, at the Chicago Humanities Festival. At one point I asked him why he kept going, why he kept making comics when his contemporaries (and his contemporaries were people like Bob Kane -- before he did Batman -- remember) had long ago retired and stopped making art and telling stories, and are gone.

He told me about a film he had seen once, in which a jazz musician kept playing because he was still in search of The Note. That it was out there somewhere, and he kept going to reach it. And that was why Will kept going: in the hopes that he'd one day do something that satisfied him. He was still looking for The Note...

Will Eisner was better than any of us, and he kept working in the hope that one day he'd get it right.

A very class act...may we all be able to live up to that example, in our own ways.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's it, I officially declare that 2005 sucks, I don't care if we're only five days in.