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...close-up view of the spellbinding Fuhrer (this was the original Springtime for Hitler), still enthralls with the artful precision of its editing craft. A wily 101 at her death, Riefenstahl outlived most of her critics but not her reputation; for 60 years, she was blackballed from the medium she helped define. Last year she completed a new movie, Underwater Impressions. It has yet to be shown at any major film festival. --By Richard Corliss
...TIME.comix: At this past Eisner Awards ceremony in San Diego, Neil Gaiman (author of the new book "The Sandman: Endless Knights"), gave a keynote speech that painted a rosy picture of the state of the comics medium. Afterwards you bounded on to the stage and said, "We're almost at the top of the mountain!" Can you elaborate...
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...
...Eisner: It's a very conscious thing. The transition can best be characterized by the fact that "The Spirit" represented a youthful interest in demonstrating my artistic skills. Plus, the medium I was working in, newsprint, required a strong, solid line that enclosed color. Also my reader at that time was a younger reader. Now I'm aiming at an adult. An adult has sufficient life experience that they can supply the background where I have a blank area. Another element in the change is that I feel the story has far more importance now than when I was working...
...Eisner: I struggled to improve the gestures and acting of the characters. One of the biggest problems in this medium is the difficult time in developing what I call internalization. You take a superhero scene where the character is doing something but you don't know what he's feeling internally. It's only the body posture, the gestures, which enable you to determine what he's really thinking. ? I worked more on the business of gestures and postures, what you call the "acting," than I did on anything else in this book. That's because for this story...