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209 “You get to know”: Schreiner, Kitchen Sink Press, p. 6.
210 “equal parts” and “It gave me”: Ibid.
211 “When I was reprinting”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
211 “He often referred”: Interview with James Vance.
212 He did it”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
212 “Don’t tell me”: Ibid.
212 “Dave would say”: Ibid.
213 “Just call me”: Paul E. Fitzgerald, “Every Picture Tells a Story,” Washington Post, June 3, 2004.
214 “worm’s-eye view”: Mike Barson, Ted White, and Mitch Berger. “… And I Threw In a Hat … ,” Heavy Metal, November 1983.
214 “We’re used to seeing”: Cat Yronwode and Maggie Thompson, “Will Eisner, Part II,” Golden Age of Comics #2 (1982).
214 “Once you get”: Dave Schreiner, “Stage Settings: Some ‘What If …’ stories,” The Spirit #28.
215 “Will Eisner never threw”: Yronwode and Thompson, “Will Eisner, Part II.”
217 “He was an amazing”: Interview with Tom Heitjes.
217 “What was interesting”: Ibid.
217 “I saw him”: Interview with Robert Pizzo.
218 “We were surprised”: Ibid.
218 “I have a house”: Interview with Ann Eisner. All other citations in this passage are from this source.
218 “He’d say”: Interview with John Walker.
219 “I’m not using”: Ibid. All other quotations in this passage are from this source.
220 “It’s the bear”: Ibid. All other quotations in this passage are from this source.
220 “stingy boss”: Jules Feiffer, introduction to Eisner, The Art of Will Eisner, p. 6.
220 “Oh, that’s true”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
220 “His brother must have”: Ibid.
221 “Despite being newly wed”: Interview with Eliot Gordon.
221 “I’m still offended”: Interview with Robert Weil.
221 “I wouldn’t say”: Interview with John Walker.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: A LIFE FORCE
223 Epigraph: Eisner and Miller, Eisner/Miller, p. 88.
223 “sands of the hourglass”: Interview with John Walker.
223 “The debate over”: Eisner, The Contract with God Trilogy, p. xviii.
224 “You, being only”: Will Eisner, A Life Force (Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1988), pp. 17–18.
224 “When Jacob talked”: Dave Schreiner, “Notes from the Perimeter,” Will Eisner’s Quarterly #6.
227 “We have two”: Ibid.
227 “Robert told me”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
227 “It’s really an uplifting”: Postcard from R. Crumb to Denis Kitchen, undated (postmarked August 4, 1988), as reprinted in Schreiner, Kitchen Sink Press, p. 86.
227 “Look at those gams”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
227 “He knew that Crumb”: Ibid.
228 Signal from Space: Eisner would use this title only once, for the color version of the book. He was never satisfied with the color version, and after signing on with DC, he reprinted it in black and white, restoring its original Life on Another Planet title.
229 “Eisner’s work”: Untitled press release, Ohio State University News, December 6, 1984.
229 “After all”: Will Eisner, “A Sunset in Sunshine City,” Will Eisner Reader (Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1991), unpaginated.
230 “That was his”: Interview with Ann Eisner.
230 “There was a silence”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
230 “Will, that’s not”: Ibid.
230 “He wanted her opinion”: Ibid.
231 “one more year”: Interview with Ann Eisner.
231 “To me, they were”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
231 “It was so funny”: Interview with Jackie Estrada.
231 “carbon monoxide fix”: Interview with Ann Eisner.
232 “Dave Schreiner and I”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
232 “At the end”: Barry Wolborsky, “An Interview with Will Eisner,” Gray Haven, n.d., online.
233 “We were so frustrated”: Interview with Denis Kitchen. Kitchen eventually wrote a lengthy annotative appendix to The Dreamer, providing the real names and stories behind Eisner’s novella, for Life, in Pictures, the posthumously published gathering of Eisner’s autobiographical works.
234 “I couldn’t find”: Jon B. Cooke, “Will Eisner: The Creative Life of a Master,” Comic Book Artist 2, no. 6 (November 2005).
235 “While each of”: Eisner, Comics and Sequential Art, p. xi. Eisner updated this book from the time of its publication until, finally, a posthumous edition