Reviews for Will Eisner: A Spirited Life

The average rating for Will Eisner: A Spirited Life based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-05-13 00:00:00 William Chou There were excellent stories in this book, but sometimes they were a little slow to appear. Way too much time was spent on the on the military jobs--good information but slow reading. Overall, good, but I would only recommend it to big Eisner fans.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-10-01 00:00:00 Jon Schneider I actually stopped reading this book halfway through. I found it dull, plodding, and directionless. Eisner himself recounted some of these stories himself in comic form in "The Dreamer" and "To the Heart of the Storm," both of which were recently reprinted in the excellent Life in Pictures collection. Here they're retold artlessly and uncritically. If it's true that cartoonists lead uninteresting lives compared to the subjects of most biographies, then it falls on the biographer to put their subjects' work and lives into historical or critical context. This book read like a report written by a disinterested high schooler. Needless to say, I would not recommend it.