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152 “I knew Will”: Interview with Jules Feiffer.
152 “I wasn’t training”: Heintjes, “Stage Settings: A new Spirit world.”
153 “One guy”: Ibid.
153 “We had other”: Tom Heintjes, “Stage Settings: Few regrets,” The Spirit #76 (CB).
154 “The differences”: Heintjes, “Stage Settings: Refried fiends.”
154 “He lied to me”: Interview with Ann Eisner.
155 “Saigon was like”: Will Eisner, introduction to Last Day in Vietnam (Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Comics, 2000), p. 5.
156 “He had a wife”: Interview with Ann Eisner.
156 Eisner as father: Interviews with Ann Eisner and Denis Kitchen.
156 “He did whatever”: Interview with Ann Eisner.
157 “He said”: Jon B. Cooke, “Just My Will: An Interview with Ann Eisner,” Comic Book Artist 2, no. 6 (November 2005).
157 “He didn’t cry”: Interview with Ann Eisner.
CHAPTER NINE: BACK IN THE GAME
159 Epigraph: Mike Jozic, “Will Eisner: The Godfather of Comics,” Meanwhile (online), interview conducted March 7, 2000.
159 “I want to invite”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
159 “Mr. Eisner”: Ibid.
160 “Come on down”: Jon B. Cooke, “Will Eisner: The Creative Life of a Master,” Comic Book Artist 2, no. 6 (November 2005).
160 “Never let it be said”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
161 “straight as they come”: Ibid.
161 “Had the pants”: Ibid.
163 “what may have been” and “publisher by default”: Ibid.
164 “In 1964”: Eisner, Will Eisner’s Shop Talk, p. 286.
164 “In 1968”: Ibid.
166 “Will Eisner wants to meet you”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
167 “I was impressed”: Denis Kitchen, “How I Met Will Eisner, Businessman,” Comic Buyer’s Guide, November 29, 1996; reprinted under the title “A Kindred Spirit” in Comic Book Artist 2, no. 6 (November 2005).
167 “To a buttoned-down type”: Will Eisner, as published in Dave Schreiner, Kitchen Sink Press: The First 25 Years (Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1994), p. 32.
168 “Will saw it”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
169 “To be successful”: Interview with Stan Lee.
169 Comix history: Interviews with Denis Kitchen, Paul Buhle, and Jay Lynch. Robert C. Harvey, The Art of the Comic Book; Matthew J. Pustz, Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1999).
169 “All the old meanings”: Gary Groth, “The Straight Dope from R. Crumb,” Comics Journal #121.
171 “That’s exactly”: Cooke, “Will Eisner: The Creative Life of a Master,” Comic Book Artist 2, no. 6 (November 2005).
171 “Enclosed is a sampling”: Letter from Denis Kitchen to Will Eisner, July 14, 1971.
171 “You are quite right”: Letter from Will Eisner to Denis Kitchen, July 27, 1971.
172 “He liked it”: Interview with Scott McCloud.
173 “Maurice is at work”: Letter from Will Eisner to Denis Kitchen, July 27, 1971.
173 “Send me a draft”: Denis Kitchen, “How I Met Will Eisner and Signed My First Contract,” Comic Book Artist 2, no. 6 (November 2005). The rest of the dialogue from this exchange is from this source.
174 “I had this notion”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
CHAPTER TEN: RESURRECTION
175 Epigraph: R. C. Harvey, “An Affectionate Appreciation,” Comics Journal #267.
176 “This is fun”: Letter from Will Eisner to Denis Kitchen, November 2, 1972.
177 “The Spirit seemed”: Cat Yronwode, “Will Eisner Interview (Part One),” Comics Journal #46.
177 “I’m gonna arrest”: and “For what”: Will Eisner, from the cover art in Snarf #3, Kitchen Sink Enterprises, 1973.
178 “Ebony White”: Will Eisner, “The Spirit,” The Spirit #1 (Underground Spirit), Kitchen Sink Enterprises, 1972.
179 “When the feature began”: Dave Schreiner, “Stage Settings: Killer ships, dogs, birds, and rays”: The Spirit #22 (CB).
181 “Stan wanted something”: Interview with Roy Thomas.
182 “I really wanted”: Interview with Stan Lee.
182 We had a long”: Harvey, “An Affectionate Appreciation.”
183 “I felt better”: “Catch the Spirit,” Four Color, January 1987.
183 “He thinks”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
183 “heartbroken”: Ibid.
184 “It is apparent”: Letter from Denis Kitchen to Will Eisner, October 16, 1973.
184 “We’ll do something