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1 “The city, to me”: Cooke, “Will Eisner: The Creative Life of a Master.”
2 “a kerosene miner”: Eisner, “Art and Commerce.”
4 “Julian”: Eisner, Heart of the Storm, p. 9. The other citations in this passage are from this source.
9 “From those pulps”: Cooke, “Will Eisner: The Creative Life of a Master.”
9 “I grew up”: John Benson, “Will Eisner: Having Something to Say,” Comics Journal #267.
11 “As always”: Eisner, “Art and Commerce.”
11 “Seeing people”: Ibid.
11 “He had been a dress-cutter”: Interview with Stan Lee.
12 “Your father isn’t”: Bob Andelman, Will Eisner: A Spirited Life (Milwaukie, OR: M Press, 2005), p. 114.
12 “I got there”: Dave Schreiner, “Stage Settings: Drawing from Experience,” The Spirit #24 (CB).
14 “We couldn’t afford”: Interview with Nick Cardy.
15 Eisner at DeWitt Clinton High School: Eisner’s earliest published work, including cartoon strips, single-panel illustrations, paintings, and sketches, many published in the Clintonian, Eisner’s high school paper, were reprinted in Will Eisner’s The Art of Will Eisner, edited by Cat Yronwode (Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1982), and Will Eisner, Edge of Genius (New York: Pure Imagination Pubishing, 2007).
15 “Garry is so proud”: Interview with Stan Lee.
17 “[it] represented”: Eisner, Art of Will Eisner, p. 7.
17 “She had an aunt”: Eisner, Edge of Genius.
17 “My mother stepped in”: Cooke, “Will Eisner: The Creative Life of a Master.”
18 “She was extremely shocked”: Ibid.
18 Ham Fisher meeting: Tom Heintjes, “Stage Settings: Harried holidays,” The Spirit #64 (CB); R. C. Harvey, “Untitled Homage to Will Eisner,” Comic Book Artist 2, no. 6 (November 2005).
19 “I almost fainted”: Heintjes, “Stage Settings: Harried holidays.”
19 “What kind of pen”: Harvey, “Untitled Homage.”
20 “One of the difficulties”: Danny Fingeroth, “The Will Eisner Interview,” Write Now! #5.
21 “They buy from everybody”: Andelman, Will Eisner: A Spirited Life, p. 36.
CHAPTER TWO: A BUSINESS FOR THIRTY BUCKS
22 Epigraph: Maggie Thompson, “Will Eisner,” Golden Age of Comics #2.
22 Eisner/Iger meeting: Will Eisner, The Dreamer (Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1986), pp. 9–10.
23 “I went up”: Interview with Nick Cardy.
23 “I don’t have time”: R. C. Harvey, “The Shop System: Interview with Will Eisner,” Comics Journal #249.
23 “Excuse me”: Ibid.
24 Early comics history: Ron Goulart, Ron Goulart’s Great History of Comic Books (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1986); Davd Hajdu, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America (New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2008); Gerald Jones, Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book (New York: Basic Books, 2004); Coulton Waugh, The Comics (New York: Macmillan, 1947), Will Eisner, “Getting the Last Laugh,” New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1990.
24 “counter-cultural, lowbrow”: Jones, Men of Tomorrow, p. 62.
26 Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson: Alter Ego 3, no. 88 (August 2009) devoted most of its issue to Wheeler-Nicholson, with interviews with Christina Blakeney (his granddaughter), Douglas Wheeler-Nicholson (his son), Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson Brown (his granddaughter), and Antoinette Wheeler-Nicholson (his daughter). Not only did the interviews supply readers with information about this unusual character in comics’ history, they also dealt with some of the myths and misconceptions, repeated in books and interviews (including Eisner’s The Dreamer) for more than a half century. Dennis O’Neil, a writer and editor at DC, admitted that his thinking about Wheeler-Nicholson had been shaped by the standard, long accepted characterization of the major, but that thinking changed after he saw the Wheeler-Nicholson issue of Alter