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> [A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/a-key-to-my-thinking-has-always-been-the-almost-fanatical-belief-that/)

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## More by Will Eisner

> [Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/before-world-war-ii-i-was-living-a-very-cloistered-existence-as-most/)

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> [Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/ive-spent-my-whole-life-working-in-a-medium-that-was-regarded-with/)

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> [We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/we-have-this-history-of-impossible-solutions-to-insoluble-problems/)

[Will Eisner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-eisner/)

> [ \[Before the Spirit\] I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas \[I wanted to aim for\] a 55-year-old who had his… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/before-the-spirit-i-had-been-producing-comic-books-for-15-year-old/)

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> [I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/i-want-to-point-out-to-adults-that-there-is-a-world-of-good-material/)

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> [ Still,\[...\] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon the convention… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/still-in-all-forms-of-comics-the-sequential-artist-relies-upon-the/)

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> [Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/humor-has-historically-been-tied-to-the-mores-of-the-day-the-yellow/)

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> [Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/comics-which-are-really-best-described-as-an-arrangement-of-images-in/)

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> [Superheroes are mostly aimed at young teen-age males concerned with their manhood. The medium will have to address itself more to content. . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/superheroes-are-mostly-aimed-at-young-teen-age-males-concerned-with/)

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> [I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/i-write-about-what-i-know-and-what-i-have-experienced-this-keeps-me/)

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> [A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/a-key-to-my-thinking-has-always-been-the-almost-fanatical-belief-that/)

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> [“You are learned in the Word of God--And if you know His Word, you know His Will.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/you-are-learned-in-the-word-of-god-and-if-you-know-his-word-you-know/)

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> [Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/thus-sped-by-currents-of-curiosity-afloat-the-swift-river-of-rumor-do/)

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> [“Living in a big city can be compared to existing in a jungle. One becomes a creature of the environment. The response to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/living-in-a-big-city-can-be-compared-to-existing-in-a-jungle-one/)

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> [The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. Sequential Art is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-eisner/the-term-comics-long-ago-became-obsolete-and-inaccurate-it-merely/)

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