{"id":7066569,"date":"2026-09-25T11:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/som2nypost.com\/uncategorized\/international-journal-of-comic-art-blog-graphic-novel-review-2\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:23:08","slug":"international-journal-of-comic-art-blog-graphic-novel-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/som2nypost.com\/?p=7066569","title":{"rendered":"International Journal of Comic Art blog: Graphic Novel Review"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Reviewed by Edward Whatley, Professor of Library Science, Russell Library, Georgia College & State University<\/span><\/p>\n

Stephen Weiner and Dan Mazur. Will Eisner: A Comics
\nBiography<\/i>. NBM Graphic Novels, 2025. ISBN: 9781681123578. $29.99. https:\/\/nbmpub.com\/products\/will-eisner<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The early life and
\ncareer of the late Will Eisner have been chronicled extensively in biographies
\nsuch as Will Eisner: A Spirited Life<\/i> and Will Eisner: A Dreamer\u2019s
\nLife in Comics<\/i>.\u00a0 <\/span>Eisner himself discussed
\nhis formative years in numerous interviews and authored autobiographical
\ngraphic novels that portrayed his life and world during those times: specifically,
\nThe Dreamer<\/i>\u00a0(<\/span>Princeton, Wisconsin: Kitchen Sink Press, 1986)\u00a0and <\/span>To the Heart of The Storm<\/i>.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>The title under review here, <\/span>Will Eisner:
\nA Comics Biography <\/i>by Stephen Weiner and Dan Mazur, is also told via
\nEisner\u2019s chosen medium of the graphic novel.<\/span>\u00a0
\n<\/span>While Weiner and Mazur did not have the advantage of being present for
\nthe events they are portraying, their account of Eisner\u2019s early life and career
\noften seems more objective and honest than Eisner\u2019s own idealized portrayal of
\nhimself and his times.<\/span><\/p>\n

A brief prologue chronicles the early lives of Eisner\u2019s immigrant
\nparents Fannie and Sam, their marriage, and the births of their sons Will
\n(1917) and Julian (1921).\u00a0 <\/span>Chapter one
\nbegins in 1925 with the Eisners engaged in what was becoming a familiar routine:
\nmoving out of their apartment in the middle of the night to avoid the landlord.
\nIn their depiction of the Will\u2019s nomadic childhood, Weiner and Mazur
\neffectively establish how the conflicting worldviews of his parents shaped Will
\nown psyche. Sam encouraged Will\u2019s creative inclinations but was not an
\neffective breadwinner.\u00a0 <\/span>Fannie was constantly
\ncomplaining that the family\u2019s modest circumstances were the result of Sam\u2019s
\nlack of practicality. As a witness to this ongoing marital conflict, Will
\ngradually internalized and reconciled these points of view, becoming both an
\naccomplished creator and an astute businessman. Weiner and Mazur\u2019s skillful and
\naffectionate depiction of how this process played out in Will\u2019s mind and in his
\nactions and choices is what makes Will Eisner: A Comics Biography<\/i> such
\nan enjoyable story.<\/span><\/p>\n

Weiner uses dialogue very efficiently to reveal much about a
\ncharacter in a few words while Mazur\u2019s impressionistic drawing style also shows
\nmuch about a character in a few lines. The characters all talk, move, and emote
\nin ways that bring them to life on the page and would likely have impressed
\nEisner himself. \u00a0<\/span>The creators also
\nprovide informative history lessons on topics such as pulp magazines, Superman,
\nand even how comics were printed in the 1930s. \u00a0<\/span>These interludes serve to give modern readers
\na better understanding of the early days of comics, an era that is now almost a
\nfull century in the past. <\/span><\/p>\n

Longtime Eisner fans will already be familiar with many of
\nthe events in Will Eisner: A Comics Biography<\/i>. As mentioned above,
\nEisner covered much of the same ground in his autobiographical graphic novels The
\nDreamer<\/i> and To The Heart of the Storm<\/i>. But while The Dreamer<\/i>
\nin particular suffered from a mawkish sentimentality, Weiner and Mazur are
\ninterested in providing a more honest portrayal of their subject and his world.\u00a0 <\/span>This is perhaps most evident in their
\nhandling of the court case of DC vs. Victor Fox.\u00a0 <\/span>Victor Fox was a publisher who wanted to cash
\nin on the Superman craze by hiring the Eisner and Iger shop to create a similar
\ncharacter named Wonder Man.\u00a0 <\/span>Eisner designed
\nthe character and produced the story to Fox\u2019s specifications.\u00a0 <\/span>DC Comics promptly sued Fox for copyright
\ninfringement. Fox instructed Eisner to claim under oath that Wonder Man was
\nEisner\u2019s own idea.\u00a0 <\/span>In Eisner\u2019s portrayal
\nin The Dreamer<\/i> of the events that followed, he took the stand and told
\nthe truth, thus losing the case for Fox (fig. 1). In the years since the
\npublication of The Dreamer,<\/i> transcripts of the court case have become
\navailable to the public and they reveal that Eisner did in fact comply with
\nVictor Fox\u2019s instructions to claim that Wonder Man was Eisner\u2019s own creation. \u00a0<\/span>Eisner even claimed to have never read
\nSuperman while working on Wonder Man (fig. 2).\u00a0
\n<\/span>Eisner made this claim despite having received a submission for Superman
\nfrom Siegel and Schuster before the character appeared in Action Comics.\u00a0 <\/span>So at worst, Eisner\u2019s telling of the story
\nwas untruthful.\u00a0 <\/span>At best, he was
\nmisremembering events.\u00a0 <\/span>But in either
\ncase, his account of the story was completely inaccurate.\u00a0 <\/span>Weiner and Mazur, however, used the court
\ntranscripts as the basis for their version and readers therefore get a more accurate
\naccount of events.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fig. 1<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fig. 2<\/span><\/p>\n

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While Eisner\u2019s portrayal of himself in The Dreamer<\/i> is
\nthat of a rather guileless romantic, Will Eisner: A Comics Biography<\/i>
\ngives us a more believable (and probably more accurate) view of the young
\nEisner.\u00a0 <\/span>To his credit, he was an
\nenthusiastic advocate for the potential of comics as a valid medium for the
\ntelling of mature stories. But in Weiner and Mazur\u2019s hands, Eisner also
\nharbored a somewhat peevish resentment for the superhero genre.\u00a0 <\/span>He displayed no reservations about working in
\nother formulaic genres, reserving his disdain solely for costumed
\ncharacters.\u00a0 <\/span>As Weiner and Mazur infer, this
\nmay have been the result of his declining to publish Superman (and forfeiting
\nthe potential financial windfall) when he had the chance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eisner is also shown to sidestep his self-professed commitment
\nto comics as a true literary form and instead embrace some of the more
\nunfortunate pop culture tropes of the time, specifically in his early portrayal
\nof the Spirit\u2019s African American assistant\/sidekick Ebony White. When
\nconfronted with complaints that Ebony was a caricature, Eisner\u2019s response is
\nsimply, \u201cWell of course he\u2019s a caricature \u2013 it\u2019s a comic strip.\u00a0 <\/span>How else do they expect me to draw a Black
\nsidekick?!\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Though Eisner began to portray Ebony with more
\nsensitivity in the post-war Spirit stories, the character\u2019s basic design and
\nspeech patterns remained the same, ensuring a strip which was visionary in many
\nrespects would always appear dated in its portrayal of one of the principal
\ncharacters.<\/span><\/p>\n

None of this is to say this Will Eisner biography reads like
\na hit piece or that Eisner is presented as an unlikable person.\u00a0 <\/span>Eisner was a tireless advocate for comics as
\na legitimate art form, a singularly innovative practitioner, and an ambitious
\nbut scrupulous businessman. All these qualities are present in Wiener and
\nMazor\u2019s handling of their subject.\u00a0 <\/span>The book
\ncovers Eisner\u2019s post Spirit life and work in a breezy manner, giving the most
\nattention to the events leading to his creation of A Contract with God <\/i>and
\nhis struggle to find a publisher.\u00a0 <\/span>Jeff
\nsmith provides an affectionate afterward that highlights how Eisner served as a
\nsource of encouragement and inspiration to younger creators.<\/span><\/p>\n

Will Eisner A Comics Biography<\/i> will be an enjoyable
\nand informative reading experience for both longtime Eisner fans and those
\nseeking an accessible introduction to the man and his work.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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