Eisner, Will Filmography

• The Spirit
  2008, role: writer
• Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Caveman: V.T. Hamlin & Alley Oop
  2005, role: actor
• Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked
  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Comic Books & Superheroes
  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Iron Giant
  1999, role: miscellaneous crew
• Comic Book Confidential
  1988, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Masters of Comic Book Art
  1987, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Spirit
  1987, role: writer
• Sheena
  1984, role: writer
• The American Comic Strip
  1978, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Blackhawk: Fearless Champion of Freedom
  1952, role: writer

Famous quotes by Will Eisner:

"Memory is a very amorphous thing. It is selective and shaped by emotion . . . people are constantly in pursuit of the details of their past because it is from that they determine their own identity upon which they can base their strategy of survival."

"Superheroes are mostly aimed at young teen-age males concerned with their manhood. The medium will have to address itself more to content. . . . I see 22 year olds draw massive Schwarzenegger types, outfitted with metal studs, pressing a mostly naked woman to their breastplates. And I think "Poor girl, that's got to be cold.""

"All professionals should teach at some time in their career because they are obliged to pass on what they have learned."

"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 accurate description of the form. I first suggested it because I believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field."

"It's very important for me to maintain contact with the reader, because I'm writing to someone, and I'm desperately eager to achieve believability."

"In the beginning of the century, in 1900, the newspapers in this country began running comic strips, and they were called jokes or funnies. The word comics developed later, but it is that that began to give the name - the ambience of comics - the feeling of being a frivolous kind of art-form."

"I did not have the dreams that the other artists working with me had, of 'moving uptown,' becoming an illustrator or a gallery painter, or those others who said, 'I'm going to go uptown and be a writer, I'm going to work for The New Yorker one day and escape this ghetto.' For me, there was no escape."

"The work we do is as demanding as any of the great painters because nothing that happens on the page of a comic is accidental. It has to be imagined first in your mind before you do it. Those of us who know something about the art of painting know that working on a canvas, very often a lot of serendipitous things happen that work to the advantage of the painter ultimately."

"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."

"I've spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons."

"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 Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny."

"I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out."