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It would be hard to imagine any creators who have more greatly affected their chosen medium than Will Eisner and Frank Miller have influenced the world of comics and graphic novels. Often misunderstood, but enduringly enjoyed by people from all walks of life, the comic book has in recent years been recognized as a "legitimate" art form by cultural institutions ranging from Harvard University to the Smithsonian, from The New Yorker to the Art Institute of Chicago. Now, culture-curious readers and life-long fans of the comics medium are invited to read along as two of the medium's greatest contributors-legendary innovator and godfather of sequential art Will Eisner, and the modern master of cinematic comics storytelling, Frank Miller-discuss one on one in an intimate interview format, the ins-and-outs of this compelling and often controversial art form. Eisner/Miller is profusely illustrated and features rare, behind-the-scenes photos of Eisner, Miller, and other notable creators.
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MILLER: One of the things I like about comics is that they are part of pop culture. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The only negative thing I have to say about this book is that it has inspired me to spend considerable amounts of money investigating the work of both key players (I had never read Eisner before, what an oversight) and the people they enthuse about: Neil Adams, Wallace Wood e.t.c...
The book is fantastically readable with well-placed illustrations throughoout providing insight into the comics industry and methods of production in a unique men, in that both men are near unique as mainstream writer-artists and original creators. Both of them have done it all.
The banter between the two great men is fantastic to observe, Miller painfully deferring to Eisner's years on more than one occasion and both arguing at cross purposes on multiple occasions to amusing effect.
All in all you won't find a better portrait of the two men and the industry they work in. By far the best of any book about comics around.
The book is fantastically readable with well-placed illustrations throughoout providing insight into the comics industry and methods of production in a unique men, in that both men are near unique as mainstream writer-artists and original creators. Both of them have done it all.
The banter between the two great men is fantastic to observe, Miller painfully deferring to Eisner's years on more than one occasion and both arguing at cross purposes on multiple occasions to amusing effect.
All in all you won't find a better portrait of the two men and the industry they work in. By far the best of any book about comics around.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Interesting and Informative Thoughts from Eisner and Miller, Two Leaders of the Comics Industry!
3 Aug 2006
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If you like either Will Eisner or Frank Miller, you will likely enjoy this book. I have been a fan of Will Eisner since the 1970s Warren Magazine reprint series of THE SPIRIT! I am not a big fan of Frank Miller, (his work is too violent and raunchy for me), but Frank and Will together have plenty of interesting insights during this extended conversation between the two comics legends.
The book is nearly 350 pages of text and b/w photos and artwork! It is a real page-turner if you enjoy comics and/or Miller and Eisner! I read it all in a single weekend, well spent time and money.
In fact, the book itself was recorded over a weekend, in Florida, at Eisner's home and office, then went through a transcription and a couple of rounds of approvals, updates, corrections, and such.
The book came out after Will Eisner passed away. Frank Miller writes a nice 2005 Introduction, kidding about Eisner's love of argument, because supposedly that is what old Jewish men love to do, argue. It is a friendly, joking introduction, and Eisner would have enjoyed it, judging by other comments inside this book.
Throughout the book, they talk and argue about many topics: other friends and acquaintances from the comics industry and fun anecdotes, how the business started and evolved, how to break-in for a newcomer (or maybe not how anymore), art and page composition, color versus black & white, working methods of operation, inking, washes, character and story creation, who else's work they admire and why, zipatone, the Comics Code Authority and the 1950s witch hunts against EC and comics, the history of pre-comics and pre-comics characters, etc.
Eisner prefers to pencil and finish a completely inked page of a story, then on to the next page; while Miller likes to do mass quantities of penciled pages, then mass quantities of basic inked pages, then mass quantites of fine tuned, detailed inking to finish the pages.
Miller hates the size and shape format of standard comics, which we learn is derived from the size of standard press room sheets, from the 1930's, or so. Eisner discusses how THE SPIRIT format was based on the standard newspaper insert sizes of those times, way back then.
Actually, after reading this book, I found Frank Miller to be a little more substantial in my opinion, not just all about gratuitous sex and violence like his SIN CITY comics; while I was a little disappointed with Will Eisner's careless remarks about his religious viewpoint, which seems to come off as negligible, from my reading of this book.
It's a nice, intelligent read for any adult comics fan! It reminds me of the extremely long, in-depth interviews from Fantagraphics and their COMICS JOURNAL, (but without the overtly hostile, liberal overloadings that downgrade the COMIC JOURNAL, to me). This book is from Dark Horse Books, and I'd like to see more of this type of stuff from Dark Horse--in-depth but more balanced than the COMICS JOURNAL's stuff.
All and all, this is a worthy purchase and read for any grown up comics fans, and I would be interested in buying more of this type of book from Dark Horse, if and when they decide to do a similar book with different professionals featured.
The book is nearly 350 pages of text and b/w photos and artwork! It is a real page-turner if you enjoy comics and/or Miller and Eisner! I read it all in a single weekend, well spent time and money.
In fact, the book itself was recorded over a weekend, in Florida, at Eisner's home and office, then went through a transcription and a couple of rounds of approvals, updates, corrections, and such.
The book came out after Will Eisner passed away. Frank Miller writes a nice 2005 Introduction, kidding about Eisner's love of argument, because supposedly that is what old Jewish men love to do, argue. It is a friendly, joking introduction, and Eisner would have enjoyed it, judging by other comments inside this book.
Throughout the book, they talk and argue about many topics: other friends and acquaintances from the comics industry and fun anecdotes, how the business started and evolved, how to break-in for a newcomer (or maybe not how anymore), art and page composition, color versus black & white, working methods of operation, inking, washes, character and story creation, who else's work they admire and why, zipatone, the Comics Code Authority and the 1950s witch hunts against EC and comics, the history of pre-comics and pre-comics characters, etc.
Eisner prefers to pencil and finish a completely inked page of a story, then on to the next page; while Miller likes to do mass quantities of penciled pages, then mass quantities of basic inked pages, then mass quantites of fine tuned, detailed inking to finish the pages.
Miller hates the size and shape format of standard comics, which we learn is derived from the size of standard press room sheets, from the 1930's, or so. Eisner discusses how THE SPIRIT format was based on the standard newspaper insert sizes of those times, way back then.
Actually, after reading this book, I found Frank Miller to be a little more substantial in my opinion, not just all about gratuitous sex and violence like his SIN CITY comics; while I was a little disappointed with Will Eisner's careless remarks about his religious viewpoint, which seems to come off as negligible, from my reading of this book.
It's a nice, intelligent read for any adult comics fan! It reminds me of the extremely long, in-depth interviews from Fantagraphics and their COMICS JOURNAL, (but without the overtly hostile, liberal overloadings that downgrade the COMIC JOURNAL, to me). This book is from Dark Horse Books, and I'd like to see more of this type of stuff from Dark Horse--in-depth but more balanced than the COMICS JOURNAL's stuff.
All and all, this is a worthy purchase and read for any grown up comics fans, and I would be interested in buying more of this type of book from Dark Horse, if and when they decide to do a similar book with different professionals featured.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Amazing book
14 July 2006
Format:Paperback
Its a great book, interesting gossip. A complaint in some reviews is that it emphasizes too much the business of comics, but in the end, the oral history of comics is extremely illuminating on how the industry has developed into what it is. Its an intruiging read, well worth the $20 I spent at the comic shop!
Fascinating!
13 April 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is essentially a book length trascript of a conversation between two legends of comic bookdom, Will Eisner and Frank Miller. They discuss everything from their story telling styles to comics history (and even an exremely technical discussion of coloring techniques). Full of interesting facts and artistic principles. These two guys know what they're talking about and LOVE their medium! My only complaint is that I wished it was twice as long!
You want to know how much I liked this book? I was thrilled when Miller was describing his thought process when he wrote Sin City...and I hate Sin City!
Highly recommended.
You want to know how much I liked this book? I was thrilled when Miller was describing his thought process when he wrote Sin City...and I hate Sin City!
Highly recommended.
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