Books read in 2019 # 110-111 - Will Eisner
Dec. 3rd, 2019 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marlowe1110. Will Eisner: The Centennial Celebration, based on the exhibitions of Le Mussee De La Dessinee and the Society of Illustrators - This is a coffee table book and as most coffee table books, this is a book where you can find all the greatest hits but also certain discoveries like the attempts in the 1970s to update the Spirit and make him more adult for the Kitchen Sink Press material. There's not enough material on Eisner's graphic novels but the panels from Contract With God are still beautiful. This goes up to the final work that Eisner did which was for the tie-in to Kavelier and Clay. Eisner quite liked the book and obviously the book liked Eisner since Chabon referred to the era when one of the artists was telling the stories of the hero from different perspectives and playing with the narrative (one of the reasons why Spirit is still fun to read when many of the Golden Age comics are boring). So this is a beautiful book yada yada. Nothing much else to say.
111. The Lost Works of Will Eisner - for completists only. It's great that these comics were found but beyond the historical curiosity of reading the newspaper strips that Eisner did before The Spirit, there's nothing to recommend them. They are just the foibles of a fat guy who rarely speaks and runs into problems like getting his pants stolen at a restaurant that tells patrons to watch their hats and coats. That's it. That's the joke.
111. The Lost Works of Will Eisner - for completists only. It's great that these comics were found but beyond the historical curiosity of reading the newspaper strips that Eisner did before The Spirit, there's nothing to recommend them. They are just the foibles of a fat guy who rarely speaks and runs into problems like getting his pants stolen at a restaurant that tells patrons to watch their hats and coats. That's it. That's the joke.
