Neop2Lemus's Journal: R.I.P. Will Eisner

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Will Eisner was one of those artists whose talent I just couldn't get my mind around.

He was good, so good, that whenever I'd glance at a page of his work I'd be stuck on it for several minutes marveling at his knowledge of exactly how to draw the shadows and where to place them, and at the expressiveness in his characters, and how he could sweep you across a complex sequence of panels, spread like figure eights across some page, without the aid of anything as base as arrows and still never have you skip a panel, keeping the story flowing rapidly.

His work was infinitely ahead of the 'tights & capes super-heros' and like another work, Maus, which was to follow his work decades later, actually transcended the comic book genre.

R.I.P. Will (1917-2005)

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