Eisnershpritz News Archive

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Will Eisner's The Spirit: A Pop-Up Graphic Novel has been named as one of three finalists in the Graphic Novel Category.

The 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award winner will be chosen from the three finalists and one will receive the Benjamin Franklin Award during a ceremony during Book Expo America in NYC.

Buy The Spirit: A Pop-Up Graphic Novel

For more information visit the publisher, Insight Editions.

This week's homework assignment (only kidding) is to read one of Danny Fingeroth's books about comics. Danny was an Editor and Writer at Marvel for twenty years before putting out his own shingle. Danny developed Write Now! for TwoMorrows Publishing including the current Spring, 2009 issue with some great interviews and articles about Will Eisner.

Here are a couple of Danny's other recent books: