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...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 as a pioneer in the field of comics as educational material. Later, in 1978, his book "A Contract with God" appeared, published by a small press. Twenty-five years after this...
...TIME.comix: As you say in the introduction to "Fagin," you have your own history with stereotype, most particularly in the character Ebony White, a big-lipped, saucer-eyed African-American comedic sidekick to the Spirit. Although Ebony evolved with greater sensitivity in the latter half of the series' life, do you see "Fagin" as a kind of mea culpa...
...Eisner: I would deserve it. [Laughs] I would deserve that. As a matter of fact that probably would be a very worthwhile idea. I think more, if I were somebody else and were to undertake that, I would probably do something about his psychology. He lives with the Spirit, his engagement was solely tied up with the Spirit and I would probably touch on the slave mentality that he probably...
...Eisner: I once thought about it but I've left "The Spirit" and have gone off onto other things. My mention of Ebony in this book was something I felt I had to honestly do because if I didn't mention it somebody else would. But as far as the Spirit is concerned, I stopped doing "The Spirit" in '52 and when people ask me, Do I ever feel like doing it again, I say, "When I do, I lie down until the feeling goes away." If the "Fagin" book is successful I think there's more...
...much as the new spirit of cooperation suggests some measure of acceptance of a shared burden in Iraq - or perhaps, more correctly, a sense of shared consequences if Iraq remains unstable - the debate over political control in Baghdad is a reminder that neither side is willing to give ground on the positions that divided them so sharply before the war. The Bush administration insists that both the reasons for the invasion, and the strategy adopted, remain valid despite mounting domestic concern. But in the eyes of much of the international community, neither the U.S. case for invading Iraq...