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100 “Our fights were always”: Interview with Jules Feiffer.
101 “the left intellectual”: Jules Feiffer, Backing into Forward (New York: Doubleday, 2010), p. 53.
102 “Kanegson was brilliant”: Dave Schreiner, “Stage Settings: Looking in memory’s closet,” The Spirit #33 (CB).
102 “To me, lettering”: Tom Heintjes, “Stage Settings: The Spirit at work and play,” The Spirit #61 (CB).
102 “There’s always been”: Dave Schreiner, “Stage Settings: Summer in the studio,” The Spirit #34 (CB).
102 “the first visible hippie”: Maggie Thompson and Cat Yronwode, “Will Eisner, Part II,” Golden Age of Comics #2.
102 “I said”: Ibid.
103 “I was always faced”: Dave Schreiner, “Stage Settings: Summer in the studio.”
103 “I don’t think”: Interview with Jerry Grandenetti.
104 “It will take you”: Will Eisner, “Ten Minutes,” The Spirit, September 11, 1949.
104 “That was mine”: “Jules Feiffer Talks About The Spirit,” Panels #1 (summer 1979).
105 “The philosophy”: Maggie Thompson, “Will Eisner,” Golden Age of Comics #2.
105 “really a Spirit story”: Feiffer, Backing into Forward, p. 68.
106 “It goes like this”: Tom Heintjes, “Stage Settings: Toys, time, love and death,” The Spirit #48 (CB).
106 “baptism of reality”: Dave Schreiner, “Stage Settings: The beginnings of a roll,” The Spirit #20 (CB).
106 “We’ll have a little”: Ibid.
106 “I caught your stuff”: Ibid.
107 “I always harbored”: Ibid.
107 Fredric Wertham and comics censorship: Bart Beaty, Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005), pp. 155–164; Goulart, Great History of Comic Books, pp. 268–274; Hajdu, The Ten-Cent Plague, pp. 250–295; Jones, Men of Tomorrow, pp. 270–277; Amy Kiste Nyberg, Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1998), pp. 53–128.
108 “We found”: Judith Crist, “Horror in the Nursery,” Collier’s, March 29, 1948.
109 “Wertham was a nest”: Hajdu, The Ten-Cent Plague, p. 99.
110 “the greatest intellectual”: Marya Mannes, “Junior as a Craving,” New Republic, February 17, 1947.
110 “the marijuana of the nursery”: John Mason Brown, “The Case Against Comics,” Saturday Review of Literature, March 20, 1948.
111 “This is a public service”: Will Eisner, “The Spirit’s Favorite Fairy Tales for Juvenile Delinquents: Hänzel und Gretel,” The Spirit, July 13, 1947.
111 “This was before”: Schreiner, “Stage Settings: The beginnings of a roll.”
114 “I walked a tightrope”: Tom Heintjes, “Stage Settings: The Spirit that almost wasn’t,” The Spirit #52 (CB).
116 “The stories with her”: Tom Heintjes, “Stage Settings: The guarding of the change,” The Spirit #69 (CB).
116 “The thing about women”: Will Eisner, “Thorne Strand and … The Spirit,” The Spirit, January 23, 1949.
116 “When I did”: Tom Heintjes, “Stage Settings: Back in the U.S.A.,” The Spirit #58 (CB).
117 “It was the first time”: Dave Schreiner, “Stage Settings: Some of the great ones,” The Spirit #35 (CB).
117 “Do not weep”: Will Eisner, “The Story of Gerhard Shnobble,” The Spirit, September 5, 1948.
119 “I had been wanting”: Dave Schreiner, “Stage Settings: Looking in memory’s closet,” The Spirit #33 (CB).
119 “You didn’t need”: Will Eisner, “Reminiscences and Hortations,” transcribed by Steve Freitag, edited by Gary Groth, Comics Journal #89.
119 “I guess I could be”: Tom Heintjes, “Stage Settings: On the road again …” The Spirit #54 (CB).
120 “Baseball Comics was”: Dave Schreiner, “Rube Rooky triumphant,” Baseball Comics #1 (Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1991).
CHAPTER SEVEN: ANN
122 Epigraph: Will Eisner, in the documentary Will Eisner: Profession: Cartoonist, produced and directed by Marisa Furtado de Oliveira and Paulo Serran, Scriptorium, 1999.
123 Will Eisner and Ann Weingarten: Interviews with Ann Eisner, Carl Gropper, and Allan Gropper; Blake Bell, I Have to Live with This Guy (Raleigh, NC: (TwoMorrows Books, 2002); Jon B. Cooke, “Just My Will,” Comic Book Artist 2, no. 6 (November 2005).
123 “Did you promise