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  <name><![CDATA[Will Eisner]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[WILL EISNER was born William Erwin Eisner on March 6, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York. By the time of his death on January 3, 2005, following complications from open heart surgery, Eisner was recognized internationally as one of the giants in the field of sequential art, a term he coined.

In a career that spanned nearly seventy years and eight decades — from the dawn of the comic book to the advent of digital comics — he truly was the 'Orson Welles of comics' and the 'father of the Graphic Novel'. He broke new ground in the development of visual narrative and the language of comics and was the creator of The Spirit, John Law, Lady Luck, Mr. Mystic, Uncle Sam, Blackhawk, Sheena and countless others.

One of the comic industry's most prestigious awards, The Eisner Award, is named after him. Recognized as the 'Oscars' of the American comic book business, the Eisners are presented annually before a packed ballroom at Comi-Con International in San Diego, America's largest comics convention.

Wizard magazine named Eisner &quot;the most influential comic artist of all time.&quot; Michael Chabon's Pulitzer-prize winning novel Kavalier and Clay is based in good part on Eisner. Also in 2002, Eisner received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Federation for Jewish Culture, only the second such honor in the organization's history, presented by Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman.

An authorized biography, Will Eisner: A Spirited Life by Bob Andelman, was published in 2005.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Brooklyn, New York</hometown>  <born_at>03/06/1917</born_at>  <died_at>01/03/2005</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue]]></title>
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  <published>2005</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Contract With God]]></title>
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  <published>1978</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Comics &amp; Sequential Art]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Will Eisner]]></name>
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  <published>1985</published>  
  
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        <book id="33478">
  <title><![CDATA[The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Will Eisner]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Will Eisner's New York: Life in the Big City: New York, The Building, City People Notebook, Invisible People]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Will Eisner]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Best of the Spirit]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Will Eisner]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Will Eisner]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Eisner/Miller]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Miller]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Invisible People]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Will Eisner]]></name>
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        <book id="60244">
  <title><![CDATA[To the Heart of the Storm]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Will Eisner]]></name>
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