Visual craftsman and comic author Will Eisner is generally viewed as the dad of the realistic novel. In 2011, this a la mode Google doodle respected what might have been his 94th birthday celebration by joining a 3D comic-style delivering of the Google logo with Eisner's character The Spirit; an investigator from past the grave.
WILL EISNER was conceived by William Erwin Eisner on March 6, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York. When of his passing on January 3, 2005, following complexities from open heart medical procedure, Eisner was perceived globally as one of the goliaths in the field of successive craftsmanship, a term he authored.
In a lifelong that traversed almost seventy years and eighty years — from the beginning of the comic book to the coming of computerized funnies — he really was the 'Orson Welles of funnies' and the 'father of the Graphic Novel'. He kicked off something new in the improvement of visual account and the language of funnies and was the maker of The Spirit, John Law, Lady Luck, Mr. Spiritualist, Uncle Sam, Blackhawk, Sheena, and innumerable others.
One of the comic business' most esteemed honors, The Eisner Award, is named after him. Perceived as the 'Oscars' of the American comic book business, the Eisners are introduced every year prior to a pressed assembly hall at Comi-Con International in San Diego, America's biggest funnies show.
Wizard magazine named Eisner "the most compelling comic craftsman ever." Michael Chabon's Pulitzer-prize winning novel Kavalier and Clay is situated in acceptable part on Eisner. Additionally, in 2002, Eisner got a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Federation for Jewish Culture, just the second such honor in the association's set of experiences, introduced by Pulitzer-prize-winning sketch artist Art Spiegelman.
An approved memoir, Will Eisner: A Spirited Life by Bob Andelman, was distributed in 2005. Another memoir, Will Eisner: A Dreamer's Life in Comics by Michael Schumacher has been delivered in 2010 by Bloomsbury.