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.

And I put a mask on him and said 'Yes he has a costume!'"
The Spirit an initially eight- and later seven-page urban-crimefighter series ran with the initial backup features "Mr. They agreed that if we had a split-up in any way the property would revert to me on that day that happened. Rider Haggard-styled hero who traveled the world after rare artifacts.

He was an early contributor to formal comics studies with his book Comics and Sequential Art (1985). He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry and his series The Spirit (1940–1952) was noted for its experiments in content and form. William Erwin "Will" Eisner (March 6 1917 – January 3 2005) was an American cartoonist writer and entrepreneur.