50bookchallenge #4/50: Shop Talk, Will Eisner

As a long-time fan and some­times cre­ator of comics, I found this col­lec­tion of inter­views with piv­otal fig­ures in the his­to­ry of the form to be fas­ci­nat­ing. If inter­views with per­son­al heroes of mine like Neal Adams and Joe Kubert wer­ent enough, there were sur­pris­es such as Phil Seul­ing, who for­ev­er changed the dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tem. To top it all off, each of the inter­views was con­duct­ed by anoth­er of my heroes of the form, Will Eis­ner. Put Eis­ner and Gil Kane in a room togeth­er and they com­pare notes about com­po­si­tion, ren­der­ing, and artis­tic work­flow. Joe Simon talk­ing with Eis­ner is like a his­to­ry lesson.

This is great stuff, but only if you’re real­ly into comix. Well, I am.