Will Eisner Portrait of a Sequential Artist (2007)

Arguably the most influential person in American comics Will Eisner as artist entrepreneur innovator and visual storyteller enjoyed a career that encomed comic books from their early beginnings in the 1930s to their development as graphic novels in the 1990s During his sixtyyearplus career Eisner introduced the nowtraditional mode of comic book production championed mature sophisticated storytelling was an early advocate for using the medium as a tool for education pioneered the nowpopular graphic novel and served as inspiration for generations of artists Without a doubt Will Eisner was the godfather of the American comic book