His seriousness helped bring mainstream attention to works like Art Spiegelman's "Maus" and Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis." As Mr. Couch put it: "He drew on everything from Theodore Dreiser to the Talmud. He brought American literary naturalism to the comics. And he kept publishing these books until everybody woke up and said, 'Wow, these are books! This is an art form! We should take this seriously!' "
Art Spiegelman called Mr. Eisner, "a giant, a pioneer, a dynamo."
In an interview on www.powellsbooks.com, Michael Chabon noted that Joe, one of the heroes of his novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," shares some features with Mr. Eisner. "Right from the beginning, he saw comics as art. He didn't have any compunction about it. He wasn't apologetic. He didn't have that 'yeah, sorry, I draw comics' kind of attitude that almost every other artist at the time did."
Mr. Eisner wrote two books on comic art, "Comic and Sequential Art" (1985) and "Graphic Storytelling" (1996). Recently, Dark Horse Press published Mr. Eisner's "Last Day in Vietnam," a collection of the military battle stories he wrote in Korea and Vietnam. In 2000, DC Comics started publishing "The Spirit Archives," a multivolume edition of the full run of the comic. And this spring W.W. Norton will release Mr. Eisner's last work, a graphic history titled "The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." [thanks to Sharon]
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