Will Eisner Quotes

#1. We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

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#2. A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

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#3. Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

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#4. Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

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#5. I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.

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#6. Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

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#7. [Before the Spirit] I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas [I wanted to aim for] a 55-year-old who had his wallet stolen on the subway. You can't talk about heartbreak to a kid.

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#8. As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.

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#9. Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from any real, personal life experience; this was all the residue of the accumulation of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, all the short-story writers that I'd been reading.

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#10. I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.

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