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286 “There were bad marriages”: Ibid, p. 2.
287 “We’ll pretend”: Ibid., p. 165.
287 “You show”: Letter from Dave Schreiner to Will Eisner, October 13, 2000.
287 “If Aron cheats”: Ibid.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: POLEMICS
289 Epigraph: David Hajdu, “Good Will,” Comic Book Artist 2, no. 6 (November 2005).
289 “proudest possessions”: Letter from Michael Chabon to Will Eisner, October 19, 1995.
290 “I want to understand”: Ibid.
290 “I interviewed”: Michael Chabon, from “Paying Homage,” Comic Book Artist 2, no. 6 (November 2005).
290 “I gave him”: Scott Tobias, “AV Club: Michael Chabon,” The Onion, November 22, 2000.
292 “Everybody needs validation”: Interview with Jules Feiffer.
292 “Writing with images”: Will Eisner, Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood (Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1995), unpaginated.
293 “Neighborhoods have life spans”: Eisner, Dropsie Avenue.
293 “We’re in a visual”: “Will Eisner,” The Onion (A.V. Club), September 27, 2000.
295 “Upon examining”: Will Eisner, foreword to Fagin the Jew (New York: Doubleday, 2003), p. 3.
295 “Actually I am not”: Letter from Will Eisner to Dave Schreiner, March 12, 2002.
296 “ ‘Tarry a bit’”: Eisner, Fagin the Jew, p. 5.
296 “A Jew is not”: Ibid., p. 114.
297 “This book was intended”: “The Grand Daddy of the Graphic Novel—A Talk with Will Eisner,” Bookselling This Week, October 22, 2003.
297 “One man”: Paul E. Fitzgerald, “Every Picture Tells a Story,” Washington Post, June 3, 2004.
299 “He was immediately”: Interview with Jon B. Cooke.
299 “He was incredibly gracious”: Interview with Andrew Cooke.
300 “This is an industry”: Interview with Jon B. Cooke.
300 “I was amazed”: Steven Lee Beeber, “Wrath of a Pulp Patriarch: Will Eisner Draws a Rebuttal to the Notorious ‘Protocols,’” New York Times, February 23, 2004.
302 “I remember being angry”: Will Eisner, preface to The Plot (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), p. 1.
303 “Am I trespassing”: David Hajdu, “Good Will.”
304 “I submitted his book’s”: Interview with Judith Hansen.
304 “We worked”: Interview with Robert Weil.
305 “I need your opinion”: Letter from Will Eisner to Dave Schreiner, August 21, 2008.
306 “Will’s quest”: Interview with Paul Levitz.
308 “We discussed”: Interview with Robert Weil.
308 “He was tired”: Ibid.
308 “Will be sending”: E-mail from Robert Weil to Denis Kitchen, January 3, 2005.
308 “It was about”: Interview with Ann Eisner.
309 “His seriousness”: Sarah Boxer, “Will Eisner, a Pioneer of Comic Books, Dies at 87,” New York Times, January 5, 2005.
309 “His final book”: Andrew D. Arnold, “A ‘Plot’ to Change the World,” Time, May 14, 2005.
310 “It is a testament”: Jonathan Dorfman, “Poison, Penned,” Boston Globe, June 26, 2005.
310 “an unprecedented, pioneering”: R. C. Harvey, “The Plot Uncovered,” Comic Book Artist 2, no. 6 (November 2005).
310 “In this whole process”: Will Eisner, Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative (New York: W. W. Norton, 2008), p. xi.
311 “I wish I had”: Interview with Peter Poplaski.
312 “I never felt”: Interview with Neil Gaiman.
312 “The wonder of Eisner”: Interview with Frank Miller.
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