The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. Sequential Art is a mo…

- Will Eisner

Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a very old form of graphic communi…

- Will Eisner

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

- Will Eisner

Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world …

- Will Eisner

Superheroes are mostly aimed at young teen-age males concerned with their manhood. The medium will have to address itself more to content. . . . I se…

- Will Eisner

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.

- Will Eisner

[Before the Spirit] I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas [I wanted to aim for] a 55-year-old who had his wallet stole…

- Will Eisner

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

- Will Eisner

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out o…

- Will Eisner