윌 아이스너

소개

윌 아이스너는 미국의 만화가였다. 1917년 3월 6일에 태어나서 2005년 1월 3일에 사망했는데, 만화를 문학 작품 수준으로 끌어올렸다는 평가를 받는다.

William Erwin Eisner was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series The Spirit (1940–1952) was noted for its experiments in content and form. In 1978, he popularized the term "graphic novel" with the publication of his book A Contract with God. He was an early contributor to formal comics studies with his book Comics and Sequential Art (1985). The Eisner Award was named in his honor and is given to recognize achievements each year in the comics medium; he was one of the three inaugural inductees to the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.