Eisner wrote and directed the film, Jake ’ s Booty Call, an animated feature length film based on a short on Romp. com and distributed by National Lampoon.

Commissioned by Disney and Michael Eisner for the New York Philharmonic's Millennium Celebration, he wrote Four Seasons, an oratorio for chorus and orchestra celebrating various aspects of the months.

Eisner wrote a companion volume to Comics and Sequential Art, Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative, which was published in 1996.

Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn visited, " Michael Eisner, who suggested I write the book and bought it, always took my call ", while " Dick Zanuck was always there, Tom Hanks would write to me, Bert Fields would send his books, and Barry Kemp wrote long letters.

Eisner also wrote Firestarter 2: Rekindled for SCI FI ( now known as Syfy, which was produced in 2002.

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.

Eisner also drew $ 10-a-page illustrations for pulp magazines, including Western Sheriffs and Outlaws.

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 ".

Wow editor Jerry Iger bought an Eisner adventure strip called Captain Scott Dalton, an H. Rider Haggard-styled hero who traveled the world after rare artifacts.

This vigorous opposition, unusual in major public corporations, persuaded Disney's board to strip Eisner of his chairmanship and give that position to George J. Mitchell.

* Spirit ( comics ), title character of the comic strip The Spirit by Will Eisner

At the same time, Michael Eisner had purchased the rights to the popular Belgian comic strip Marsupilami.

Writers included Al Aronowitz, George Barkin, Ann Louis Barsach, Chip Berlet, Steve Bloom, Michael Bloomfield, Victor Bockris, William S. Burroughs, Mark Christensen, Ed Dwyer, Bruce Eisner, David Enders, Thomas King Forcade, Andrew Kowl, Bruce Jay Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman, Kinky Friedman, Steven Hager, Debbie “ Blondie ” Harry, J. Hoberman, Mark Jacobson, David Katz, Paul Krassner, Dean Latimer, Carlo McCormick, Barry Miles, Cookie Mueller, Glenn O ' Brien, Joey Ramone, Ron Rosenbaum, Jerry Rubin, Luc Sante, Larry “ Ratso ” Sloman, Terry Southern, Peter Stafford, Richard Stratton, Teun Voeten, Andy Warhol, Andrew Weil, Mike Wilmington, Robert Anton Wilson, and Frank Zappa.

* 1992: Eisner Award, Best Comic Strip Collection, for The Revenge of the Baby-Sat

* 1992: Eisner Award, Best Comic Strip Collection, for Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons

In 1995 he won the Eisner Award for " Best Serialized Story " for his 12-chapter work " The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck ".

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

Category: Eisner Award winners for Best Writer / Artist

In 2007, Gumby was nominated for two Eisner Awards.

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.

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.

The series received the Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story in 1996 for " I Dream of You " as well as the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award for Best Comic Book in 1997.

In 1992 he became the first Mexican ever to win the Eisner Award for his work in Groo the Wanderer, along Mark Evanier.

Category: Eisner Award winners for Best Writer / Artist

Don Rosa earned the Will Eisner Award in 1995 for this work.

Eisner said that on one occasion a man who Eisner described as " a Mob type straight out of Damon Runyon, complete with pinkie ring, broken nose, black shirt, and white tie, who claimed to have ' exclusive distribution rights for all Brooklyn " asked Eisner to draw Tijuana bibles for $ 3 a page.

In 1936, high-school friend and fellow cartoonist Bob Kane, of future Batman fame, suggested that the 19-year-old Eisner try selling cartoons to the new comic book Wow, What A Magazine!

Disney chairman Michael Eisner stated " I don't think either side thought Toy Story would turn out as well as it has.

American and British comic books are not as well represented in the French and Belgian comics market, probably due to the differences in comic traditions between these countries, although the work of Will Eisner is highly respected.

Public rifts grew between the animation staff and management, as well as between Michael Eisner and Roy E. Disney.

When he proposed the show in a meeting with Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, the idea was well received except for the character of Kit Colby.

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.

His main influences are Fred and André Franquin as well as Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, Will Eisner, Hugo Pratt and John Buscema.

Astro City and its creators have won a number of Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards, the American comic industry's equivalent of science fiction's Hugo Awards, as well as several Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards.

As well as many extracts, including examples of splash pages ( an Eisner trademark ), this chapter includes several complete stories and chapters:

In 1994, with Marvels, he won Best Finite Series / Limited Series Eisner Award and the Best Continuing or Limited Series Harvey Award ; as well as the Harvey Award for Best Single Issue or Story ( for Marvels # 4 ) in 1995.

He won the Best Single Issue / Single Story Eisner three years in a row from 1996 – 1998, as well as in 2004.

Busiek won the Best Continuing Series Eisner Award in 1997 – 1998, as well as the Best Serialized Story award in 1998.

The series won the 2002 Harvey Awards for Best Writer, Best Artist and Best Continuing Series, and the 2003 Harvey Award for Best Artist, as well as the 2001 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story, and the 2002 and 2004 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series.

Most decisions, however, were made by the WDFA President, who officially reported to Disney but who in practice also reported to the Disney's studio chairman as well as its corporate chairman and CEO, Michael Eisner.

Lee first rose to prominence in the industry for his work on Marvel's Namor the Sub-Mariner, Inhumans ( for which he won an Eisner Award ), and The Sentry, as well as his creator-owned character Hellshock at Image Comics.

The stories are semi-autobiographical, with Eisner drawing heavily on his own childhood experiences as well as those of his contemporaries.

In his introduction to the book's 2001 reissue, Eisner further revealed that the tragic inspiration for that choice of subject, as well as the inciting incident in the book's title story, grew out of the 1970 death of his leukemia-stricken teenaged daughter, Alice.

Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, October 17, 2005: " ever leaving well enough alone is apparently a principle for Eisner.

In 2008 The Boys was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series as well as a GLAAD Media Award, and is now under development through Kickstart Entertainment and Original Film for Columbia Pictures.

The writer-artist ( e. g. Will Eisner, Frank Miller, Darwyn Cooke ) typically combines the two roles of writer and penciler, but can also incorporate the role of inker as well.

Rosa created numerous sequels to Barks's stories as well as a 12-part series on " The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck ," which won Rosa two Eisner awards.