In his later years, Kirby, who has been called " the William Blake of comics ", began receiving great recognition in the mainstream press for his career accomplishments, and in 1987, he, along with Carl Barks and Will Eisner, was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

These associates, made up of Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dawn Steel and Don Simpson would each go on and head up major movie studios of their own later in their careers.

In February 1919, Eisner was assassinated ; fearing that he might be the victim of a counter-assassination, Ludwig fled to Hungary, later moving on to Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

Eisner was always an open Republican as well as a Social-Democrat, joining the SPD in 1898, whereas for tactical reasons German Social-Democracy, particularly in its later stages, rather cold-shouldered anything in the shape of Republican propaganda as being unnecessary and included in general Social-Democratic aims.

" (" Kurt Eisner, who proclaimed the Bavarian republic on 8 November 1918 – later Prime Minister of the Republic of Bavaria – was murdered here on 21 February 1919.

Disney shareholders later sued Eisner and Disney's board of directors for awarding Ovitz such a large severance package.

Roy E. Disney first thought of a sequel to Fantasia in 1974, only to pitch the film to Disney chairman Michael Eisner ten years later.

Following Walt's death in 1966, his nephew Roy E. Disney thought of an update for Fantasia in 1974 and pitched the idea to Disney chairman Michael Eisner ten years later.

Kane also produced work through Eisner & Iger for two of the companies that would later merge to form DC Comics, including the humor features " Ginger Snap " in More Fun Comics, " Oscar the Gumshoe " for Detective Comics, and " Professor Doolittle " for Adventure Comics.

Doll Man was the lead feature of the anthology series Feature Comics through # 139 ( October, 1949 ), with Eisner writing the early stories under the pen name " William Erwin Maxwell ", and art contributed first by Lou Fine, and later by Reed Crandall.

The seven-page weekly series is considered one of the comic-art medium's most significant works, with Eisner creating or popularizing many of the styles, techniques, and storytelling conventions used by comics professionals decades later.

Examples include Michael Eisner ( who was President & COO of Paramount Pictures while Diller was Chairman & CEO of Paramount Pictures, who went on to become Chairman & CEO of The Walt Disney Company ), Dawn Steel ( future head of Columbia Pictures and the first woman to run a movie studio, who worked under Diller at Paramount ), Jeffrey Katzenberg ( head of PDI / DreamWorks Animation, principal of DreamWorks SKG, former head of Walt Disney Studios, and a head of production of Paramount under Diller ), Garth Ancier, President of BBC America, and Don Simpson, who was President of Production at Paramount under Diller and Eisner, was also included – he later went on to run a production company based on the Disney lot with Jerry Bruckheimer.

He was named president of Disney in 2000, and later succeeded Michael Eisner as chief executive in 2005, after a successful effort by Roy E. Disney to shake-up the management of the company.

After the revolution of November 1918, he served as Minister of Education under prime minister Kurt Eisner and later succeed him on 17 March 1919 as the first freely elected Bavarian Minister President.

Established in 1985 during the reorganization and subsequent re-incorporation of The Walt Disney Company following the arrival of then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner, the entity was formerly known as The Walt Disney Pictures Television Animation Group, the name was then later changed,

Robert Eisner suggested that for 1956-95 there was a zone from about 5 % to about 10 % unemployment between the low-unemployment realm of accelerating inflation and the high-unemployment realm of disinflation.

Quirky publications ranging from novels to film books by Leonard Maltin about John Landis, to comic related material such as a biography of Will Eisner, to health books.

Understanding Comics received praise from notable comic and graphic novel authors such as Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Garry Trudeau ( who reviewed the book for the New York Times ), and was called “ one of the most insightful books about designing graphic user interfaces ever written ” by Apple Macintosh co-creator Andy Hertzfeld.

Played by puppeteer Ali Eisner, Mamma Yamma teaches children about food-related subjects such as nutrition, table manners and basic mathematics, and also often incorporates celebrity and musical guests.

After numerous complaints about the revamped attraction, including a Disney stockholder who questioned CEO Michael Eisner about Figment's absence during the company's annual shareholders meeting, a modest 2002 refurbishment modified the 1999 version to add the dragon as a playful foil for Dr. Channing throughout the Imagination Institute tour.

The theme is reminiscent of a real-life episode described by Eisner about his being asked to draw for the publications.

On the afternoon of 7 November 1918, the first anniversary of the Russian revolution, Kurt Eisner of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany ( USPD ) addressed a crowd, estimated to have been about 60, 000, on the Theresienwiese ( current site of the Oktoberfest ).

The decision in Eisner v. Macomber, however, was not about wages, and the exception for stock dividends was narrow.

Magazine editor Tina Brown uses the phrase thematically in a 2005 Washington Post essay about the downfall of Harvard University president Larry Summers and the problems of Disney's former embattled CEO Michael Eisner.

In 2002, he contributed an interview to Panel Discussions, a nonfiction book about the developing movement in sequential art and narrative literature, along with Durwin Talon, Will Eisner, Mike Mignola and Mark Schultz.

His calling the book a " graphic novel ", Eisner said in that same address, came about on the spur of the moment:

According to an article in The Houston Chronicle, " The catalyst for Disney's braving the stage was an article by New York Times theater critic Frank Rich that praised Beauty and the Beast as 1991's best musical .... Theatre Under The Stars executive director Frank Young had been trying to get Disney interested in a stage version of Beauty about the same time Eisner and Katzenberg were mulling over Rich's column.

He is the editor of the Italian editions of important essays about comic art by Scott McCloud, Will Eisner and Benoit Peeters.

" In reference to his graphic novel Fagin the Jew, Eisner acknowledged parallels between Charles Dickens ' use of racial stereotyping for that character ( which Eisner criticized ) and Eisner's own portrayal of White, but asserted that his own work had not " capitalized on " the stereotype.

Ebony White is a fictional character from the 1940 comics series The Spirit, created by Will Eisner.

In a 1966 New York Herald Tribune feature by his former office manager-turned-journalist, Marilyn Mercer claimed, " Ebony never drew criticism from Negro groups ( in fact, Eisner was commended by some for using him ), perhaps because, although his speech pattern was early Minstrel Show, he himself derived from another literary tradition: he was a combination of Tom Sawyer and Penrod, with a touch of Horatio Alger hero, and color didn't really come into it ".

" Omaha " the Cat Dancer was nominated for Eisner Awards for Best Continuing Series, Best Black-and-White Series, and Best Writer / Artist in 1989 ; in 1991, the series received Eisner Awards for Best Black and White Series and Best Writer.

** Frank Miller won " Best Penciller / Inker, Black & White Publication " Eisner Award, for Sin City

President Bill Clinton and Disney President, Michael Eisner introduced the film from the White House to American audiences.

Life on Earth, by Wilson, E .; Eisner, T .; Briggs, W .; Dickerson, R .; Metzenberg, R .; O ' brien, R.

Capp was also inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2004.

All are called, generically, comic strips, though cartoonist Will Eisner has suggested that " sequential art " would be a better name.

Will Eisner popularized the term " graphic novel " when he used it on the cover of the paperback edition of his work A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories in 1978.

Writer-artist Will Eisner called him " the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books.

In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

Charges of a Jewish conspirational element in Germany's defeat drew heavily upon figures like Kurt Eisner, a Berlin-born German Jew who lived in Munich.

The series was a success, and in 1995 he won an Eisner Award for best continuing series.

Breck Eisner has been announced as the director of the remake.

* 1919 – Kurt Eisner, German socialist, is assassinated.

In 2007, Gumby was nominated for two Eisner Awards.

His first political hero was Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, the man who assassinated the Bavarian prime minister Kurt Eisner.

After the murder of the first republican premier of Bavaria Kurt Eisner in February 1919 by Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, the Bavarian Soviet Republic was proclaimed.

* 1917 – Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist ( d. 2005 )

Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.

* 1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

During this period, responsibility for running the studio passed from Eisner and Katzenberg to Frank Mancuso Sr. ( 1984 ) and Ned Tanen ( 1984 ) to Stanley Jaffe ( 1991 ) and Sherry Lansing ( 1992 ).

In the upheaval following the end of the war a disconcerted Pacelli sought Benedict XV's permission to leave Munich, where Kurt Eisner had declared a socialist republic, and he left for a while to Rorschach, and a tranquil Swiss sanatorium run by nuns.

* 7-Ib Eisner, 77, Danish artist.