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€ ³Will Eisner¹s John Law² Update € Dave Gibbons on ³The Year of Will Eisner² € Will Eisner in the News € Will Eisner¹s Personal Appearances € Will Eisner Links ³Will Eisner¹s John Law² UPDATE Official merchandise, gifts & collectables are now available in the John Law Store, Go to http://www.johnlaw.us.com and click the 'Store' link on the front page! Gary Chaloner also says that ³What Nubbin Knew...,² a brand new LAW adventure, updates with new episodes on http://www.moderntales.com on Wednesday! Chaloner also established a Will Eisner area called ³The Junktion² on his personal web site for general Eisner posts and discussion... and for news and updates on John Law: http://junktion.garychaloner.com. DAVE GIBBONS ON ³THE YEAR OF WILL EISNER² Subscribers to the Will Eisner listserv, eisner-l@yahoogroups.com, already read this, but artist Dave Gibbons (Watchmen, The New Adventures of The Spirit), wrote in to compliment Gary Chaloner on the John Law book and the Will Eisner Companion from DC. ³It¹s a great time to be an Eisner fan,² Gibbons said. WILL EISNER IN THE NEWS A Shrinking Drawing Board for Cartoonists The Washington Post (12-12-2004) By Mary Ellen Slayter What do you get when you cross "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and Isaac Bashevis Singer? You get cartoonist Barry Deutsch's latest project, an online comic book called Hereville, about "the magical adventures of a 12-year-old Hasidic girl fighting monsters." Deutsch, 36, is best known as the creator of the left-wing political comic strip "Ampersand," which began in the Portland State University student newspaper in the late 1990s. The weekly strip won two Oregon Newspaper Association awards and the Charles M. Schulz award for college newspaper cartoonists. While Deutsch, of Portland, got his start with political cartoons, he has mostly moved on to other things, including the Hereville contribution to Girlamatic.com, a subscriber-based online comic magazine. He still draws a regular political cartoon for Dollars & Sense, a leftist economics magazine. Deutsch works eight to 20 hours a week on cartoons, more if you include research. (He also works as a wedding coordinator.) Deutsch has taken numerous college-level art classes, including a few at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he studied with Will Eisner, "one of the greatest cartoonists of all time." (Eisner created the venerable "Spirit" comic published in newspapers from 1940 to 1952. World War II veterans may also recognize him as the hand behind cartoons distributed by the government to boost soldiers' morale.) The pursuit of a career in comics is arduous, Deutsch said. "Right now, the comics industry is in terrible shape. Many of the most talented cartoonists out there -- people like [fellow Girlamatic cartoonist] Jenn Manley Lee . . . have never earned a full-time living as a cartoonist. There's no longer an infrastructure to support more than a tiny number of up-and-coming cartoonists, which is unfortunate, because the talent base out there is enormous." Review: Will Eisner¹s John Law: Dead Man Walking By Tom Russo Entertainment Weekly (12-17-04) There's a reason that writer/artist Gary Chaloner's take on the titular one-eyed, two-fisted cop feels retro: Comics legend Eisner actually introduced the character in 1948 in a short-lived bid to expand his signature franchise, THE SPIRIT (the new book reprints Eisner's handful of original LAW tales). Save for drawing a flash of skin here or penning a mild obscenity there, Chaloner faithfully strives to recapture Law's quaint brand of gee-willikers noir. Still, a prologue skillfully depicting racism in Law's world will make you wish Chaloner had strayed more. Grade: B No matter the season, comics make the perfect gift By William J. Dowlding Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (12-19-04) bdowlding@journalsentinel.com Let's take a look at some of the best books this season: The Goon (Dark Horse, $2.99 each) is one of my favorite mags - offbeat, funny and a bit scary, with a preoccupation with zombies. Eric Powell's series is a breath of fresh air and an Eisner Award winner. The namesake of that award - Will Eisner - is one of the grand old men of comics. He created and produced The Spirit in the 1940s with such innovative storytelling techniques that the entire series is being reprinted as part of DC's prestigious Archives line of hardcover books (most $49.95). DC also has many of his other titles in its catalog and even the new The Will Eisner Companion ($19.95) to help explain it all. Another Eisner Award winner is Fables (DC Vertigo), presenting a reality in which the characters of fairy tales live among us. The latest collection, "March of the Wooden Soldiers," is a gem, with involving stories and beautifully rendered art. It's also a bargain, reprinting nine issues (239 pages) for $17.95. Read the rest of the story: http://www.jsonline.com/enter/books/dec04/284963.asp If you¹d like to subscribe to Will Eisner: A Spirited Life eNewsletter, send an e-mail to subscribe@aspiritedlife.com |