The Will Eisner 1997 Shoot Interview by David Armstrong

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David Armstrong interviewed Golden Age great and Graphic Novelist, Will Eisner in 1997 on set at San Diego Comic Con about the early history of comic books, comic strip reprints, his entry into comics, WOW What A Magazine!, his partnership with Jerry Iger, the growing concept of early comic books with original material, starting the Eisner and Iger shop, partnering with Everett M. Arnold at Quality Comics on the Spirit Newspaper Insert, departing the Iger shop, serving in World War 2, its effect on his storytelling and starting PS Magazine.
Interview conducted, recorded and copyrighted to David Armstrong.
Remastered, edited, timestamped and postproduction by Alex Grand.
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📜 Chapters
00:00 When start drawing
00:58 Influence of father
03:42 Mother's influence, failure of father as painter
04:11 Influences - Early Silent Film
05:13 Getting into the comics - Eastern Color
06:59 Comic strip reprints - Dick Tracy
07:52 WOW What a Magazine
08:47 Jerry Iger
10:50 Scott Dalton character
11:10 The concept of comic books was growing
13:09 Starting "Eisner & Iger"
16:00 Hiring the artists on salary
18:32 Everett M. Arnold - Quality Comics
19:31 Henry Martin - The Spirit Newspaper Insert
21:09 Stockholder agreement - Selling the half of business to Iger
22:50 Three-way partnership with Arnold & Martin
23:32 Artists from Eisner & Iger
24:23 No social life
25:21 World War 2 advanced my storytelling
27:10 Using comics as a teaching tool - PS Magazine
27:54 Storytelling and culture changed by the war
30:56 Outro
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@ardathbey4150 Жыл бұрын

I miss Will and his wife Ann very much... we met in 1982... and stayed good friends until his passing... this video was refreshing to watch... thank you.

@DelightLovesMovies Жыл бұрын

Will Eisner's Invisible People is one of the most tragic and beautiful stories I ever read.

@comicguy9611 Жыл бұрын

So amazing to think that back in the 20's & 30's we have some much talent. Eisner style was great.

@rickytoddbotelho9555 Жыл бұрын

The man whose style became the peak of excellence to me the first time I saw it. Someone I met and followed around until he signed my autograph book. That looked at me and said ' I was a very persistent young man 👞' ♥️ this guy forever and ever. The man who invented the way we think about the 'comic book '

@fredrik241 Жыл бұрын

I remember reading and loving The Spirit when I myself was a 12 year old cretin from Sweden. It was run in the locally popular Fantomen (The Phantom) and it became one of my favourite secondary stories. I loved the stylish, self assured and confident art work which I think you could say was even post modern in style. It felt very fresh even if it was probably a few years old when I read it. I'm sure it influenced me somewhat into doing my job today which is in visuals (vfx) for movies. Thank you Will Eisner for sharing these stories and this youtube channel too!

@dwaynemuth8775 Жыл бұрын

Excellent interview ! I’ve been reading Will’s Spirit through Warren and later the mid70’s at Kitchen Sink! I didn’t know it the time but Will showed me the rich world of narrative stories and WE are all the better for it ❤👍🎯😎 Godspeed to Will Eisner!💎

@ComicBookHistorians Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@marcuskelligrew9186 Жыл бұрын

Wow! To hear Wiil’s voice after all these years. I had him as a teacher at SVA for three years. A great man!

@PimpfDM92 Жыл бұрын

Awesome to hear the great Will Eisner. Great job remastering all those video interviews.

@ComicBookHistorians Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@cha5 Жыл бұрын

Will Eisner, Jack Kirby and Carl Barks were three of my all time favorite comic artists, I had first discovered Eisner’s The Spirit as a kid in Jules Fieffer’s book The Great Comic Book Heroes which I first discovered as a kid back in the 1970’s, a lot of the Golden Age superhero stories that book reprinted were memorable, but Eisner’s The Soirit really was like nothing else I had ever seen before, I didn’t start collecting them until Kitchen Sink started reprinting them back in the 1980’s and then I collected the DC Spirit Archives and some of the earliest original 1940’s Sunday Spirits and Golden Age issues of Police Comics which reprinted some of the Suday Soirits as well, Eisner himself was kind enough to sign several of those back issues at Comic-Con International during the early 2000’s for me and he was an unforgettable man to talk to as well on topics from Lou Fine and Reed Crandall and almost anything else and was always fun to watch during the Eisner Awards presentations and I still miss him.