The Will Eisner Companion

The Will Eisner Companion
Author: N. C. Christopher Couch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The perfect introduction to the work of a comics legend, The Will Eisner Companion is a must-have celebration for new fans as well as old.

The Spirit

The Spirit
Author: Mark Cotta Vaz
Publisher: Titan Books (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Spirit (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9781845768324

Will Eisner’s classic comics character makes the leap to the screen in this spectacular new live-action movie written and directed by Frank Miller (Sin City, 300), and starring Gabriel Macht as The Spirit, Samuel L. Jackson as his psychotic arch-nemesis The Octopus, and Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson as alluring femmes fatales. In Central City, one man fights crime using nothing but his wits and his fists. He wears a mask, a suit and a fedora, and he is known only as The Spirit... This stunning volume, with director’s commentary, contains interviews with the cast and the crew, color photos & production art, and scores of Frank Miller sketches, plus excerpts from the screenplay.

The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel
Author: Stephen E. Tabachnick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2017-07-03
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1107108799

This Companion examines the evolution of comic books into graphic novels and the development of this art form globally.

The Love and Rockets Companion

The Love and Rockets Companion
Author: Marc Sobel
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2013-08-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1606995790

The Love and Rockets Companion: 30 Years (and Counting) contains three incredibly in-depth and candid interviews with creators Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez: one conducted by writer Neil Gaiman (Coraline); one conducted some six years into the comic’s run by longtime L&R publisher Gary Groth; and one conducted by the book’s author, spanning Gilbert’s, Jaime’s and Mario’s careers, and looking to the future of the ongoing series, with a follow-up conversation with Groth. This book has foldout family trees for both Gilbert’s Palomar and Jaime’s Locas storylines; unpublished art; a character glossary (which is handy, considering that Gilbert alone has created 50+ characters!); highlights from the original series’ anarchic letters columns; timelines; and the most wide-ranging Hernandez Brothers bibliography ever compiled, including album and DVD covers, posters and more.

Comics & Sequential Art

Comics & Sequential Art
Author: Will Eisner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1990
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780961472818

The author discusses his ideas and theories and provides instructions on the art of graphic storytelling.

Graphic Storytelling

Graphic Storytelling
Author: Will Eisner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780961472825

Examines the fundamentals of storytelling in comic book style and offers advice on story construction and visual narratives.

Heroes of the Comics

Heroes of the Comics
Author: Drew Friedman
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2014-09-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606997319

Featuring over 80 full-color portraits of the pioneering legends of American comic books, including publishers, editors and artists from the industry’s birth in the ’30s, through the brilliant artists and writers of behind EC Comics in the ’50s. All lovingly rendered and chosen by Drew Friedman, a cartooning legend in his own right. Featuring subjects popular and obscure, men and women, as well as several pioneering African-American artists. Each subject features a short essay by Friedman, who grew up knowing many of the subjects included (as the son of writer Bruce Jay Friedman), including Stan Lee, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Eisner, Mort Drucker, Al Jaffee, Jack Davis, Will Elder, and Bill Gaines. More names you might recognize: Barks, Crumb, Wood, Wolverton, Frazetta, Siegel & Shuster, Kirby, Cole, Ditko, Werthem… it’s a Hall of Fame of comic book history from the man BoingBoing.com call “America’s greatest living portrait artist!”

Hellboy

Hellboy
Author: Stephen Weiner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9781593076559

Includes character profiles, official timeline; literary heritage of Hellboy and more.

Will Eisner

Will Eisner
Author: Michael Schumacher
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2010-11-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1608190137

Depicts the artist's career over eight decades, from the dawn of comics' Golden Age in the late 1930s to the early 21st century when Pulitzers began being awarded to graphic novels, and features interviews with his family, friends and colleagues

Will the Real Will Eisner Please Stand Up and Other Adventures in Comics

Will the Real Will Eisner Please Stand Up and Other Adventures in Comics
Author: Stephen Weiner
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2018-01-10
Genre:
ISBN:

Will Eisner, Neil Gaiman, Scott McCloud and…Hellboy? In his new collection, Will the Real Will Eisner Please Stand Up? Award-winning author Stephen Weiner (The Will Eisner Companion, Hellboy: the Companion) writes about Will Eisner, Neil Gaiman, Scott McCloud, and the NECON conference of 1998. Other pieces include a history of Weiner’s avocation as a comics’ librarian/historian, comics and an exceptional child, and an outtake from Hellboy: the Companion.