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Will Eisner
Will Eisner (1917–2005) was an American cartoonist and writer regarded as one of the pioneers of American comic book art and a driving force behind the graphic novel format. He created the newspaper insert series The Spirit (1940–1952), a crime drama noted for its film-noir influenced style and unconventional visual storytelling, and later wrote A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories (1978), drawn from his own childhood in a New York tenement and widely credited with popularizing the te...