Will Eisner's Death
Born (Birthday) March 6, 1917
Death Date January 3, 2005
Age of Death 87 years
Cause of Death Surgical Complications
Profession Cartoonist
The cartoonist Will Eisner died at the age of 87. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
American-born cartoonist and Entertainment legend that established the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.
His father was also an artist.
Eisner, who sustained a heart attack and then a cancer diagnosis in 2018, announced in August restructuring his Hales Corners-based businesses but said he would remain involved on a daily basis.
Quotes
"Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you’re different in a society, you’re funny.
"I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form – in this medium – and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.
"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 of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.