He made what living he could painting backdrops for vaudeville and the Jewish theater. There he found getting work difficult, as his English skills were poor. To avoid conscription in the army, he moved to New York before the outbreak of World War I. He aspired to be an artist, and as a teenager painted murals for rich patrons and Catholic churches in Vienna. The Eisner Award was named in his honor and is given to recognize achievements each year in the comics medium he was one of the three inaugural inductees to the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.ġ917–1936: Early life Family background Įisner's father, Shmuel "Samuel" Eisner, was born March 6, 1886, in Kolomyia, Austria-Hungary (present-day Ukraine), and was one of eleven children. He was an early contributor to formal comics studies with his book Comics and Sequential Art (1985). In 1978, he popularized the term " graphic novel" with the publication of his book A Contract with God. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series The Spirit (1940–1952) was noted for its experiments in content and form. William Erwin Eisner (Ma– January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur.
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