Will Eisner -- artist, storyteller, entrepreneur -- played a central role in comics from the Golden Age to the Computer Age. During his career, Eisner reinvented sequential art and himself to overcome obstacles and create new media. A combination of idealist and realist, he led the way and helped create the comics and graphic novels that we know today. Learn about Will Eisner from those who personally knew and worked with him. Join moderator
Charles Brownstein (executive director of the CBLDF, author of
Eisner/Miller),
Denis Kitchen (artist, author, publisher, Eisner's agent and longtime friend),
Paul Levitz (writer, former president/publisher of DC Comics),
Scott McCloud (artist, author, theoretician about comics and sequential art),
Diana Schutz (executive editor, Dark Horse Comics), and
Jeff Smith (writer/cartoonist,
Bone, Rasl) to learn more about the "Father of the Graphic Novel."
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