... " Who knows ," Eisner writes above a full-page drawing of swarming cockroaches, " why all the creatures of earth struggle so to live.

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

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

William Erwin " Will " Eisner ( March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005 ) was an American comic writer, artist and entrepreneur.

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!

He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1993 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1997.

He was posthumously inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1999.

Cole was posthumously inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1999.

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.

He was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 1996, and in 2005 he was inducted into the Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creators Hall of Fame for his contributions to comic books.

Foster was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1996 and the Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creators Hall of Fame for his contributions to comic books in 2005.

He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1991.

He was posthumously inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame ( 1993 ) and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame ( 1997 ).

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.

* Bill Willingham's Eisner Award-winning comic book series Fables, published by Vertigo Comics, features the Jungle Book's Mowgli, Bagheera and Shere Khan ; though their characterisation remains true to Kipling's stories, Willingham and artist Mark Buckingham also make oblique references to the 1967 Disney animation in dialogue and artwork.

He was inducted ( with Shuster posthumously ) into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993.

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.

Eisner is set to direct the film adaptation of the Mark Wheatley comic book Blood of the Innocent.

* The Spirit ( film ), a 2008 film based on the Eisner comic

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

Major Loop institutions include: the Community Music School, owned by Washington University in St. Louis ; the Craft Alliance, noted for its pottery studios and classes ; the Riverfront Times ; Vintage Vinyl ; The Pageant Concert Nightclub ; Tivoli Theater ; Cicero's Italian Restaurant & Entertainment Venue ; Fitz's Restaurant and Bottling Company ; Star Clipper, the Eisner Award-winning comic book store ; Brandt's Cafe and Red Carpet Lounge ; Headz n Threadz clothing shop ; the Melting Pot fondue restaurant ; and Blueberry Hill, a pub and restaurant that served as the engine for the revival of the Loop beginning in the 1970s.

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

Frazetta was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1999.

For the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics Carey went on to write the entire run of the Eisner Award-nominated comic book Lucifer, and issues 175 to 215 of Hellblazer, a run on that title only exceeded in length by Garth Ennis and Peter Milligan.

Among the many interviewed comic book creators were Chris Claremont, Will Eisner, Neil Gaiman ( who was twice selected as the fan-favorite guest in a viewership mail-in vote ), Bob Kane, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Scott McCloud, Frank Miller, and Alan Moore.

The term was coined in 1985 by comics artist Will Eisner in his book Comics and Sequential Art.

Roy Disney's efforts to oust Eisner from the company were chronicled by James B. Stewart in his best-selling book, DisneyWar.

* Comics & Sequential Art — a similar book by Will Eisner

In July 2012 Kochalka won the Eisner Award for his book Dragon Puncher 2: Dragon Puncher Island.

Will Eisner features Tijuana bibles in the first pages of his book The Dreamer, though nothing explicit is shown.

He was inducted into both the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996.

The following year, Kane began to work at Iger's subsequent studio, Eisner & Iger, which was one of the first comic book " packagers " that produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new medium during its late-1930s and 1940s Golden Age.

He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1988.

Comics and Sequential Art is a 1985 book by Will Eisner that provides an analytical overview of comics.

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.

He shared the 2005 Best Penciller / Inker or Penciller / Inker Team Eisner Award in a tie with artist John Cassaday for his work on the book.

The band took its name from the Popol Vuh, a manuscript of Quiché Maya kingdom, after watching Herzog's Fata Morgana ( in which Lotte Eisner reads parts of the Popol Vuh ).

Eisner continued to rewrite the script, which will be a summer blockbuster full of " action and excitement, but scary ".

In the early part of the 1990s, Eisner and his partners set out to plan " The Disney Decade " which was to feature new parks around the world, existing park expansions, new films, and new media investments.

Eisner then recruited his friend Michael Ovitz, one of the founders of the Creative Artists Agency, to be President, with minimal involvement from Disney's board of directors ( which at the time included Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier, the CEO of Hilton Hotels Corporation Stephen Bollenbach, former U. S. Senator George Mitchell, Yale dean Robert A. M. Stern, and Eisner's predecessors Raymond Watson and Card Walker ).

His resignation from the board in 1984, which occurred in the midst of a corporate takeover battle, was the beginning of a series of developments that led to the replacement of company president and CEO Ronald William Miller ( married to Walt's daughter Diane Marie Disney ) by Michael Eisner and Frank Wells.

While investors were attempting hostile takeovers of Disney with the intention on dismantling the company and selling off its assets, Roy organized a consortium of white knight investors to fend off the takeover attempts which led to Eisner and Wells being brought on.

In 2005, after disagreements between Disney's Michael Eisner and Pixar's Steve Jobs over the distribution of Pixar's films, Disney announced that they would be creating a new animation studio, Circle 7 Animation, to make sequels to the seven Disney-owned Pixar films ( which consisted of the films released between 1995 and 2006 ).

Eisner worried that the new story was too close in tone to Disney's 1997 film Hercules, which had performed decently but yet below expectations at the American box office.

In October 2005, it was announced that Eisner would direct a remake of the classic monster movie Creature from the Black Lagoon which was dropped in 2009 for unnamed reasons, and in February 2008 it was announced that he would direct The Crazies, a remake of the film of the same name, released in 2010.

Eisner was the author of various books and pamphlets, which include:

The actual attraction in Disney's Hollywood Studios is very similar to the plans for the equivalent that was proposed for Epcot, only, when newly-appointed CEO Michael Eisner saw the plans for the pavilion, he requested that, instead of placing the ride in an already existing park, it should be surrounded by a brand new theme park which extended the showbiz, Hollywood, and entertainment theme.

The Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award, which is presented annually at Comic-Con International during the Eisner Awards, is named after him.

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

Mohr managed to convince Eisner to let him host a talk show on ESPN entitled Mohr Sports which ran briefly in 2001 before being cancelled.

He illustrated covers for the comic book series Fables and The Umbrella Academy, for which he has won six Eisner Awards for " Best Cover Artist ".< ref name =" vert-fabl ">

* Jason ( comics ), a comic series by John Arne Sæterøy which has won several Eisner Awards

The next day, Eisner declared Bavaria a " free state " – a declaration which overthrew the monarchy of the Wittelsbach dynasty which had ruled for over 700 years, and Eisner became Minister-President of Bavaria.

His graphic novel, Sinking, which is the fictional autobiography of a schizophrenic, earned him an Eisner Award nomination.

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.

In 1993, Bissette co-edited with Stanley Wiater Comic Book Rebels: Conversations with the Creators of the New Comics ( Dutton, ISBN 1-55611-355-2 ), which featured interviews with such notable comics creators as Scott McCloud, Harvey Pekar, Dave Sim, Howard Cruse, Will Eisner, Peter Laird, Kevin Eastman, and R. Crumb.

In 1990, Darrow and Miller collaborated on the comic book Hard Boiled, a 3-part mini-series, for which they won the 1991 Eisner Award for Best Writer / Artist.