In Will Eisner: A Dreamer's Life in Comics, Michael Schumacher delves beneath Eisner's public persona to draw connections between his life and his art. Eisner's career spanned a remarkable eight decades, from his scrappy survival at the dawn of comics' Golden Age in the late 1930s to the beginning of the twenty-first century, when Pulitzers began going to graphic novels (a term Eisner is widely credited with creating). Schumacher's extensive research and interviews with Eisner's family, friends, and colleagues, as well as other comics creators who have built upon his work, create a detailed portrait of Eisner the man and Eisner the artist.
McCloud, in an incredibly
accessible style, explains the details of how comics work: how they're
composed, read and understood. More than just a book about comics, this gets to
the heart of how we deal with visual languages in general. "The potential
of comics is limitless and exciting!" writes McCloud. This should be
required reading for every school teacher. Pulitzer Prize-winner Art Spiegelman
says, "The most intelligent comic I've seen in a long time."
Will Eisner
"A landmark dissection and intellectual consideration of comics as a valid
medium."
James Gurney, Dinotopia
"McCloud is the McLuhan of comics."