Will Eisner

Will Eisner (March 3, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an acclaimed American comics writer and artist who is considered one of the most important contributors to the development of the medium. He is known for the cartooning studio he founded, his highly influential series The Spirit, his use of comics as an instructional medium for the U.S. military, his leading role in establishing the graphic novel as a form of literature with his book A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories, and his educational work about the medium as exemplified by his book Comics and Sequential Art.

Instructional materials

Eisner was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942, leaving The Spirit to be continued by other creators until his return to civilian life in 1945. In the service, he introduced the use of comics for training personnel in the publication Army Motors. He formed American Visuals Corporation in 1948 to produce instructional materials for the government, related agencies, and businesses. One of his longest-running jobs was P*S, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly, a digest-sized, largely comics-format magazine for the US Army that he started in 1951, and continued to work on until 1970.

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U.S. Army - 1942 - 1948

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