{"id":478,"date":"2019-03-04T00:07:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T05:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/?p=478"},"modified":"2019-03-04T00:07:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T05:07:24","slug":"will-eisner-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/blog\/2019\/03\/04\/will-eisner-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Eisner Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bunch of my friends on facebook are calling this Will Eisner week to celebrate the man.<\/p>\n

In going over some old notebooks I came across some notes I took the one time I met and saw Will Eisner talk on a panel. This was at the 2004 Paradise Comics Toronto Comic Con. I was not yet recording panels so I only have the notes I scribbled down. The notes are faded and will be illegible soon so I’m putting them here to preserve them.<\/p>\n

The title of the panel was Graphic Novel Pioneers. On it was Will Eisner, Dave Sim and Chester Brown.<\/p>\n

\"2004

2004 Paradise Comics Toronto Comic Con – Graphic Novel Pioneers panel. Will Eisner, Dave Sim, Chester Brown<\/p><\/div>\n

Will Eisner starts off telling Dave Sim “We have to be very careful about what we say, there is an audience.”<\/p>\n

Eisner thinks a Graphic Novel is about the content, not page numbers.<\/p>\n

He thought readers were older and wanted to read something other than 2 mutants smashing each other.<\/p>\n

Eisner said the President of Ballantine Books was very impatient.<\/p>\n

Chester now accepts the Graphic Novel name. He didn’t before.<\/p>\n

Eisner calls some books graphic narrative.<\/p>\n

Al Capp told Eisner in 1945 he’d never make it, said he was to normal.<\/p>\n

Rube Goldberg told Eisner that comics wasn’t nothing but vaudeville and jokes.<\/p>\n

Spirit got 5 million in circulation, that was considered nothing then.<\/p>\n

Eisner talked about how comic strips had huge cultural impact among immigrants.<\/p>\n

Eisner said Superman had the same costume as strong man in circus.<\/p>\n

Eisner said the Spirit was supposed to be short stories. Eisner did Splash pages to get attention.<\/p>\n

Dave did Cerebus because of the direct market, the retailers took all the risk. He did things in Cerebus that he knew couldn’t do in Marvel\/DC. He had almost complete freedom and he pushed boundaries.<\/p>\n

Dave said he and the people in Beguiling (Popular Indy focused Comic Book store) thought Louis Riel was career suicide.<\/p>\n

Eisner thought undergrounds was literature because Denis Kitchen introduced him to them.<\/p>\n

Eisner sold his company and went into doing Graphic Novels.<\/p>\n

Dave said Cerebus + Star Reach was called Ground Level Comics.<\/p>\n

Eisner credits the undergrounds for the Graphic Novel.<\/p>\n

Eisner thinks the Editor should be the reader surrogate, tell him what doesn’t work and Eisner will fix it himself. He doesn’t want advice.<\/p>\n

Chester uses Seth as his “editor” to give him advice.\u00a0Sim did it all himself.<\/p>\n

Eisner used Dave Shiner, a friend, as an editor, he died recently. He now uses his wife Ann who never read comics prior to this.<\/p>\n

Eisner said doing comics is like sex. He doesn’t like talking about it while he’s doing it. After he’s finished, then he goes through it.<\/p>\n

Eisner starts writing with the ending. He writes a timeline, not the story.<\/p>\n

With Louis Riel, Chester did his work on panels with dialog at first, did stick figures if he didn’t think he would remember.<\/p>\n

\"Will

Will Eisner<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Dave

Dave Sim<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Chester

Chester Brown<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Will

Will Eisner and Chester Brown<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Will

Will Eisner talks to media<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bunch of my friends on facebook are calling this Will Eisner week to celebrate the man. In going over some old notebooks I came across some notes I took the one time I met and saw Will Eisner talk on a panel. This was at the 2004 Paradise Comics Toronto Comic Con. I was not yet recording panels so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,130,36,14],"tags":[478,81,157,446,194],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","category-creator-rights","category-creators","category-graphic-novels","tag-478","tag-chester-brown","tag-dave-sim","tag-paradise-comics-toronto-comic-con","tag-will-eisner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}