Will Eisner passed on

[RoadWarriorYajuta]

RIP to one of Comics true visionaries. The spirit is one of the few Golden Age comics that has stood the test of time and is as breath taking today as it was when it was released. www.willeisner.com/
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[Xenorama ™]

i'm glad i got to meet him when i did. he was a great man. RIP Will.

[Torgaman]

I saw him on the HISTORY channel talking about how he created the Spirit.Basically at first he was going to be a straight detective hero.But the editor wanted a costumed hero since they were big back then.So to save face at the last minute Eisner drew a mask and gloves on him and presto the Spirit was born.

[celamowari]

One of the true greats has passed on. Not much else I can say.

[Shonokin]

A brilliant man with a brilliant career and a great influence to so many artists and writers. He was one of the true legends of comics and art in general.

I was bummed to hear of his passing, but he's certainly someone who had a full life. Besides The Spirit he has written/drawn a TON of graphic novels about everything from science fiction to living through wars to family power struggles in New York.

I had just finished reading Name of the Game last Friday and was wondering what Will was doing now.

[Preston]

What also impressed me was the fact that Will Eisner also created the superhero, the DOLLMAN who had the superpower of super-shrinkage. I have been a long-time fan of the other size-shrinking hero THE ATOM but it was later on that I discovered that DOLLMAN was the first with that superpower. I first discovered DOLLMAN when I had bought that JUSTICE LEAGUE issue where the JLA encountered the superhero group from an alternate Earth. Then came those classic reprints of DOLLMAN as illustrated by the Golden-Age great, Lou Fine. As is the case with that studio's other heroes, the DOLLMAN was limited to stories about gangsters. Even so, DOLLMAN had a Rogues Gallery of his own in that the villain the UNDERTAKER made more than one appearance. It disappoints me that only a few of the DOLLMAN stories were reprinted. I would have liked to see any other villains who made multiple-appearances just as the UNDERTAKER did.

[BaronVonMacheimer]

oddly, my local newspaper carried a full page story on his passing and how much he contributed to not just comics, but literature as a whole.
and remember---i live in a town with only TWO stoplights!!!
same thing happened when Dee Dee Ramone died, and his contributions to the music world.
and yet---the local paper only gives a paragraph or two about the killings of major political figures. strange indeed.
(they did, however, devote several column spaces to an incident last week involving a sodomy charge against a local man and a miniature hore---I KID YOU NOT!!! )