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257 “At first”: Interview with Ann Eisner.
257 “I felt that”: Ibid.
258 “Dave and Will”: Interview with Jackie Estrada.
258 “It is to me”: Eisner, Will Eisner’s Shop Talk, p. 284.
258 “We mail out”: Interview with Jackie Estrada.
260 “We’ve got to get”: Ibid.
260 “You know, you get”: Sarah Boxer, “Will Eisner, a Pioneer of Comic Books, Dies at 87,” New York Times, January 5, 2005.
260 “the most influential”: Will Eisner, introduction to City People Notebook (Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1989), p. 4.
261 “While it is true”: Letter from Will Eisner to Dave Schreiner, June 29, 1988.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE HEART OF THE MATTER
262 Epigraph: “AV Club: Will Eisner,” The Onion, September 27, 2000.
262 “standing naked”: Shawna Ervin-Gore, “Will Eisner,” Darkhorse News, n.d., online.
262 “When I was younger”: Ibid.
263 “To write about”: Henrik Andreassen, “Timeless Insights: An Interview with Will Eisner,” Seriejournalen #19 (spring 1995); reprinted in Comic-Con International, 2005.
263 “When I showed”: Ervin-Gore, “Will Eisner.”
264 “I think it’s”: Letter from Dave Schreiner to Will Eisner, July 19, 1989.
264 “on the whole”: Ibid.
264 “Would you consider”: Ibid.
265 “Ambiguity and ambivalence”: Letter from Dave Schreiner to Will Eisner, August 1, 1989.
265 “Enclosed”: Letter from Will Eisner to Dave Schreiner, September 4, 1990.
265 “In 1942”: Letter from Dave Schreiner to Will Eisner, September 10, 1990.
265 “My major misgiving”: Ibid.
265 “This is your strongest”: Ibid.
266 “My gratitude”: Eisner, To the Heart of the Storm, p. 2.
266 “schmaltzy,” “melodramatic,” and “a vivid”: “To the Heart of the Storm,” Publishers Weekly, March 22, 1991.
266 “This is an outstanding”: Don Thompson, “Graphic-Album Autobiography Catches Era’s Spirit,” Comics Buyer’s Guide, March 29, 1991.
267 “is a major skill”: Will Eisner, Invisible People (Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1993), p. 10.
267 “I grew up”: Ibid., p. 9.
268 “In relating”: Ibid., p. 85.
268 “I expect I’ll be”: Letter from Will Eisner to Dave Schreiner, November 5, 1991.
268 “You have to let”: Letter from Dave Schreiner to Will Eisner, January 31, 1992.
268 “Still flailing”: Letter from Will Eisner to Dave Schreiner, December 26, 1991.
271 “I developed”: “AV Club: Will Eisner.”
271 “After I finish”: Tom Heintjes, “Interview with Will Eisner,” HA (Hogan’s Alley), n.d.
272 “mausoleum”: Christopher Irving, “A Whole Lotta Spirit,” Richmond Comix (online), n.d.
273 “to be sure”: Ibid.
273 “It was a little”: Tom Heintjes, “Interview with Will Eisner.”
273 “I did not”: Interview with Neil Gaiman.
274 “He was determined”: Ibid.
274 “I had this”: Ibid.
275 “I’m coming to”: R. C. Harvey, “Will Eisner on the Future of Comics,” Comic Book Artist 2, no. 6 (November 2005).
276 “It was pure, unadulterated”: Interview with Frank Miller.
276 “I didn’t know”: Interview with Denis Kitchen.
277 “As you know”: Letter from Will Eisner to Dave Schreiner, May 12, 1999.
277 “I see no”: Letter from Will Eisner to Dave Schreiner, August 26, 1999.
279 “The stories in this work”: Will Eisner, Minor Miracles (New York: DC Comics, 2000), p. 1.
279 “These orders guide”: Interview with Diana Schutz.
280 “It’s an innovation”: Ervin-Gore, “Will Eisner.”
280 “It only works”: Harvey, “Will Eisner on the Future of Comics.”
280 “I wanted to keep”: Ervin-Gore, “Will Eisner.”
282 “ ‘A Purple Heart for George’”: Eisner, Last Day in Vietnam, p. 1.
283 Eisner and Miller: Interviews with Frank Miller, Charles Brownstein, Diana Schutz, and Mike Richardson.
283 “It didn’t go”: Interview with Mike Richardson.
283 “It was mild”: Interview with Frank Miller.
284 “I’ve been concerned”: Letter from Will Eisner to Dave Schreiner, June 30, 1998.
284 “I know this will lead”: Letter from Dave Schreiner to Will Eisner, July 18, 1998.
285 “strong book”: Letter from Dave Schreiner to Will Eisner, October 13, 2000.
286 “crude and noisy” and “intelligent,