Will Eisner Quotes
- Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon the convention of…
- Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant…
- Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a very…
- 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 more…
- Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.
- Superheroes are mostly aimed at young teen-age males concerned with their manhood. The medium will have to address itself more to content. . . .…
- I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.
- 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…
- I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this…
- Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from…
- As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.
- We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.
- Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they…
- Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.