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

[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.