Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel

Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him. * John Updike * What Will did was and is timeless. * Neil Gaiman * Will Eisner is, and remains, one of my precious idols. * Frank Miller * "He was the greatest. * Harvey Kurtzman * Will Eisner is a national treasure. * Jules Feiffer * Will Eisner is the heart and mind of American comics. * Scott McCloud * Eisner is the single person most responsible for giving comics its brains. * Alan Moore * Eisner was unique in feeling from the start that comic books were not necessarily this despised, bastard, crappy, lowbrow kind of art form, and that there wasa potential for real art. * Michael Chabon * This is the book that Will Eisners life and career deserve . . . informative and entertaining, and belongs in every library collection. * ICv2 *

Paul Levitz, the former President and Publisher of DC Comics, has edited, written and produced hundreds of award-winning comics over his 35-year career, and is the author of the Eisner Awardwinning book 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking (Taschen, October 2011). Levitz lives in New York City, where he currently teaches writing and media at Columbia University, Pace University, and Manhattanville College. Brad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inner Circle, The Book of Fate and seven other bestselling thrillers including The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel, The Millionaires, The Zero Game, The Book of Lies and his newest, The Fifth Assassin. In addition to his fiction, Meltzer is one of a handful of authors to have books on multiple bestseller lists: non-fiction (History Decoded), advice (Heroes for My Son and Heroes for My Daughter), childrens books (I Am Amelia Earhart and I Am Abraham Lincoln) and even graphic novels (Identity Crisis and Justice League of America), for which he won the prestigious Eisner Award. He is also the host of the History Channel television show Decoded, as well as Lost History. You can find him at BradMeltzer.com and @bradmeltzer.