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sigma7 ([personal profile] sigma7) wrote2005-01-04 10:52 am

Rest in peace, Will Eisner

Newsarama has learned that comic legend Will Eisner died Monday evening, due to complications from heart surgery performed on December 22nd. Eisner had undergone quadruple bypass surgery, and was last reported to be recovering well.

It's impossible to adequately describe the man and his accomplishments and his influences. This bit approaches it:

That's why, when Eisner handed the 2002 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story (Amazing Spider-Man #30-35: " Coming Home " ) to writer J. Michael Straczynski and artists John Romita Jr. and Scott Hanna, Straczynski thrust the award in the air and remarked, " You know, you get the Emmy, you don ' t get it from ' Emmy. ' You win the Oscar, you don ' t get it from ' Oscar. ' How freakin ' cool is this? "

[identity profile] kitblonde.livejournal.com 2005-01-05 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no! ODB, Jerry Orbach, and now Will Eisner? And yet Fred Durst is still alive, and I bet Rob Liefeld will live to be a million.
*grump*

[identity profile] sigma7.livejournal.com 2005-01-05 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
No kidding. I don't like the time I've spent living in an Orbach-less world. It fills me with fear and dread.

And yet Paris Hilton is still alive.