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Though Will Eisner jokes about being "in denial" about his age, 86, it seems he must be denying it somehow. Having worked in comics for about 65 years, ever since high school, Eisner continues to produce nearly a full book a year, making him more productive than many artists one quarter his age. In addition he appears in San Diego every year to hand out the comics industry awards named in his honor. Creator of the groundbreaking "The Spirit," a comic supplement that appeared in newspapers from 1939 to 1952, Eisner went on to a 25-year career...
Will Eisner: What I meant was that at this moment in time people who are working in this medium have reached the point where we are beginning to receive, I wouldn't say approbation, but certainly a kind of respect for what we're doing. Over the years comic artists, people who were engaged in this business, were regarded with a great deal of contempt and it's only in this last two years that, for example, the libraries have begun to accept the material as legitimate reading. In fact in 1984 I did a five-page article...
...travelogue that rarely hits the road. Sofia Coppola has a witty touch with dialogue that sounds improvised yet reveals, glancingly, her characters' dislocation. She's a real mood weaver, with a gift for goosing placid actors (like Johansson, who looks eerily like the young James Spader) and mining a comic's deadpan depths. Watch Murray's eyes in the climactic scene in the hotel lobby: while hardly moving, they express the collapsing of all hopes, the return to a sleepwalking status quo. You won't find a subtler, funnier or more poignant performance this year than this quietly astonishing turn...
...article about the popularity of graphic novels and the serious topics they explore [BOOKS, Aug. 25], writer Lev Grossman showed an incredible lack of respect for comic-book writers and artists. His comment that graphic novels are underestimated because they "look just like their less evolved forebears, comic books" was insulting. Comic books, even the ones about superheroes, deserve far more respect. And they can be just as visually creative and well written as the rather pretentious "adult" graphic novels described in his report. MICHAEL W. LIMBERG Burbank, Calif...
...Stand-up comic, TV host, auteur?Takeshi Kitano has never been shy about meeting a challenge. With each movie in his ultra-violent oeuvre, the 56-year-old Kitano has raised the critical stakes to become one of Japan's best filmmakers. Along the way, he's defined an original film persona, that of "Beat" Takeshi, the artful gangster. But in his newest movie, Zatoichi, a don't-call-it-a-remake of one of the country's longest-running and best-loved film series, and which opened last Saturday in Japan, Kitano is facing the biggest challenge...