#wil eisner

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The Spirit #10 Oct 1975

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The Spirit #9 Aug 1975

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"Yesterday's" Comic> Wonder Comics #1

BW's "Yesterday's" Comic> Wonder Comics #1

“Superman can take out a car, but I took down a plane! Surely I’ll be long remembered past the Golden Age.” Wonder Comics #1 Fox Feature Syndicate (May, 1939, apparently listed as Bruns Publications, scanned for Comic Book Plus) So…after looking at the credit for Blue Beetle #1 the Golden Age comics all seem to have multiple stories per issue, like Mystery Men Comics, so the heck with it. Golden…

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Yesterday (or very early this morning, depending on timezone), I saw that Aaron Diaz, writer and artist of Dresden Codak had said that Will Eisner was proof of how far a mediocre white man could go. You can see that post here.

I have never read Dresden Codak. I have no opinion of Aaron Diaz as a writer or artist. I knew he was a comic creator, and I thought the idea that he felt he could drag Wil Eisner was fucking ridiculous. Eisner’s work is legend because he was so in love with comics as a medium and strove to make them a real form of art. His books on how to create comics are still considered the top of the heap in learning how to tell stories sequentially. He invented the graphic novel as a form, and--of course--the biggest award in the industry in named after him because his work in the medium is fucking legend. 

So, I felt Aaron Diaz was wrong. Especially in regards to calling Eisner white. Eisner was not white. Eisner was a Jew in New York City in the early 1900s, and his life during that time influenced his work for the rest of his life. 

In short: to call him “mediocre” and a “white man,” made me think Aaron Diaz was just being a dick for reasons I couldn’t understand.

Today, Aaron Diaz apologized on twitter for “implying” (his word) that Eisner was a white man. I posted this:

Aaron Diaz has blocked me from his twitter. He can block whoever he wants whenever he wants; it’s his twitter. But I made one comment pointing out his softball apology, and I got blocked. I am officially unimpressed with Aaron Diaz. He has come off like someone who wants to say things to sound interesting but can’t take simple critique of his work. 

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Different ways of saying sorry.

(from "Comics and Sequential Art" by Will Eisner)