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185 “Just think”: Yronwode, “Will Eisner Interview (Part Two),” Comics Journal #47.
186 “Jim had a different”: Jon B. Cooke, “A Spirited Relationship,” Comic Book Artist 2, no. 4 (1999).
186 “circus colors”: Andelman, Will Eisner: A Spirited Life, p. 199.
186 “Over my dead body” and “The cover”: Cooke, “A Spirited Relationship.”
CHAPTER ELEVEN: A CONTRACT WITH GOD
187 Epigraph: Mike Barson, Ted White, and Mitch Berger. “… And I Threw In a Hat … ,” Heavy Metal, November 1983.
187 “Are you kidding”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
187 “There is no doubt”: Denis Kitchen, journal entry, July 5, 1974.
188 “If I devoted”: Letter from Will Eisner to Denis Kitchen, December 9, 1976.
188 “I would expect”: Letter from Denis Kitchen to Will Eisner, April 8, 1977.
189 “rather lightweight”: Letter from Will Eisner to Denis Kitchen, March 16, 1977.
189 “It was a hodgepodge”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
190 “They had to”: Interview with Ann Eisner.
191 “I said to him”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
192 “I always read”: Interview with Batton Lash.
192 “In the catalogue”: Maggie Thompson, “Will Eisner,” Golden Age of Comics #2.
193 “I had been dealing”: Will Eisner, Comics and Sequential Art (New York: Poorhouse Press, 1985), p. xii.
193 “paint-splattered” and “one of amusement”: Interview with John Dilworth.
193 “He appeared to be”: Ibid.
194 “sort of like”: Interview with Batton Lash.
194 “He was interested”: Ibid.
194 “One day, he said”: Interview with David Mandel.
195 “He taught us”: Interview with John Walker.
195 “If you screwed up”: Ibid.
195 “In the process”: Barson et al., “… And I Threw In a Hat …”
196 “If I don’t”: Ibid.
196 “The creation of this story”: Eisner, The Contract with God Trilogy, p. xvi.
196 “My grief”: Ibid.
198 “In the telling”: Will Eisner, A Contract with God (New York: Baronet Press, 1978), unpaginated.
199 “Every one of the”: Cat Yronwode, “Will Eisner Interview (Part Two),” Comics Journal #47.
200 “a combination of”: Eisner, The Contract with God Trilogy, p. xviii.
200 “a story built around”: Ibid., p. xvii.
200 “in a wine-soaked” and “With this book”: Ibid., p. xvi.
200 “a Park Avenue publisher” and “No offense, Denis”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
200 “I looked at it”: “Will Eisner,” The Onion (A.V. Club), September 27, 2000.
200 “It’s a graphic novel”: Jon B. Cooke, “Will Eisner: The Creative Life of a Master,” Comic Book Artist 2, no. 6 (November 2005). All other direct quotations from this conversation are from this source.
201 “I thought I had invented”: Will Eisner, “Keynote Address from the 2002 ‘Will Eisner Symposium.’”
201 “limited term,” “graphic literature,” and “graphic story”: Andrew D. Arnold, “The Graphic Novel Silver Anniversary,” Time, November 14, 2003.
202 “The drawings without”: Harvey, The Art of the Comic Book, p. 106.
203 “Whatever the graphic novel”: Ibid., p. 109.
203 “Graphic novels”: Stephen Weiner, Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel (New York: Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine, 2003), p. xi.
203 “Eisner is credited”: Interview with Michael T. Gilbert.
204 “Eisner was one”: N. C. Christopher Couch, “Will Eisner and the Graphic Novel: The Semiotics of Publishing,” unpublished essay.
205 “When Eisner turned”: Ibid.
205 “a near masterpiece”: Dennis O’Neil, “Winners & Losers: Harsh Memories from Will Eisner,” Comics Journal #46.
205 “What did you do”: R. C. Harvey, “Will Eisner on the Future of Comics,” Comic Book Artist 2, no. 6 (November 2005). All direct quotations in this passage are from this source.
CHAPTER TWELVE: OUTER SPACE, THE CITY—NO LIMITS
207 Epigraph: Maggie Thompson, “Will Eisner,” Golden Age of Comics #2.
208 I’m gonna let it happen”: Cat Yronwode, “Will Eisner Interview (Part Two),” Comics Journal #47.
208 “There has been”: Letter from Denis Kitchen to Will Eisner, May 11, 1979.
208 ”In view of information”: Letter from Will Eisner to Denis Kitchen, May 16, 1979.
208 “I knew instinctively”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
209 Dave Schreiner: Interviews with Denis