Will Eisner Quotes

• We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

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  Impossible, Problem, Ingenuity

  Will Eisner, John B. Cooke (2005). “Will Eisner”

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• Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a very old form of graphic communication. It began with the hieroglyphics in Egypt, it first appeared in a recognizable form in the Medieval times as copper plates produced by the Catholic church to tell morality stories.

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  Communication, Egypt, Ideas

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• En cuanto a mí, busco la excelencia. No tengo tiempo para envejecer.

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  Excellence, Pursuit, Pursuit Of Excellence

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• 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 are treated as independent disciplines, it seems valid. Actually, the are derivatives of a single origin and in the skillful employment of words and images lies the expressive potential of the medium.

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  Lying, Communication, Independent

  Will Eisner (2008). “Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

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  Giving, Support, Adults

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• 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.

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  Art, Long Ago, Feelings

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• I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.

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  Writing, Honest, Knows

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• Los superhéroes se dirigen sobre todo a jóvenes adolescentes preocupados por su virilidad. El medio tendrá que dirigirse más al contenido. . . . Veo a jóvenes de 22 años dibujar enormes Schwarzenegger, equipados con tachuelas de metal, presionando a una mujer casi desnuda contra sus corazas. Y pienso: "Pobre chica, eso tiene que ser frío".

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  Girl, Thinking, Years

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• Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

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  Rivers, Secret, Curiosity

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• 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 reading and the common cognitive disciplines. Indeed, it is this very voluntary cooperation, so unique to comics, that underlies the contract between artist and audience.

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  Reading, Unique, Artist

  Will Eisner (2008). “Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

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  Historical, Reason, Whole Life

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• Una de las claves de mi pensamiento siempre ha sido la creencia casi fanática de que lo que estaba haciendo era una forma de arte literario. Esa creencia se agravó por ego y necesidad, supongo que por una combinación de ambos.

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  Art, Thinking, Keys

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• [Before the Spirit] I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas [I wanted to aim for] a 55-year-old who had his wallet stolen on the subway. You can't talk about heartbreak to a kid.

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  Book, Kids, Kansas

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• 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 any real, personal life experience; this was all the residue of the accumulation of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, all the short-story writers that I'd been reading.

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  Real, War, Reading

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• 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.

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  Kids, Yellow, People

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