Will Eisner

Quotes

• “Born and brought up in New York City and having survived and thrived there, I carry with me a cargo of memories, some painful and some pleasant, which have remained in the hold of my mind. I have an ancient mariner’s need to share my accumulation of experience and observations. Call me, if you will, a graphic witness reporting on life, death, heartbreak and the never-ending struggle to prevail…or at least to survive.”
• “Mathieu Golovinski was born in the Simbirsk region of Russia in 1865 during the reign of the Romanov dynasty. His family, a part of the fading Russian aristocracy, provided him with a fragile social standing. He grew up in a leisured environment typical of families of that class. His father, Basil Golobinski, died,however, when Mathieu was 10 years old.”
• “Adolf Hitler, while spending three years in jail for the Beer Hall Putsch, writes his famous book “Mein Kampf.””
• “1934 Bern, Switzerland The Trial”
• “1945 As the Allies rummages through documents in the wreckage of defeated Germany, evidence of the influence of the “Protocols” was found by American Intelligence.”
• “2004 The Protocols of Zion is still sold in bookstores around the world”

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Key facts

Born

William Erwin Eisner , ( 1917-03-06 ) March 6, 1917, New York City, U.S.

Died

January 3, 2005 (2005-01-03) (aged 87), Lauderdale Lakes, Florida , U.S.

Area

Cartoonist , Publisher

Pseudonym

William Erwin Maxwell

Notable works

The Spirit A Contract with God Comics and Sequential Art

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Wikidata facts

Official website

willeisner.com

Image

Will Eisner (San Diego Comic Con, 2004).jpg

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