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

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

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

- 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

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

- 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

Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from any real, persona…

- Will Eisner

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

- Will Eisner

Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon the conventi…

- Will Eisner