Will Eisner: A Comics Biography Join the Jewish Heritage Center and the Boston Comic Arts Foundation for a moderated conversation with Stephen Weiner and Dan Mazur about the life of Will Eisner, one of the most influential artists in the history of comics, and their work to record it through the most appropriate medium: a graphic novel!

As they do in Will Eisner: A Comics Biography, Weiner and Mazur will explore Eisner's Jewish immigrant roots and childhood in New York, how he started his own comics studio and business, the creation and publication of his beloved comic, The Spirit, and much more.
 

Stephen Weiner

Stephen Weiner has been writing about graphic novels since 1992 and spearheaded the movement to bring graphic novels into public libraries. His books include: 100 Graphic Novels for Public Libraries, The Will Eisner Companion, Will the Real Will Eisner Please Stand Up & Other Adventures in Comics, The 101 Best Graphic Novels, The Rise of the Graphic Novel (Introduction by Will Eisner), Analysis of BONE: a Closer Look at the Jeff Smith Graphic Novel Masterpiece, and Hellboy: the Companion. He is co-editor of the 7-volume series, Graphic Novels: A Critical Survey. His novel, Briandigo's Dagger, is available from Haverhill House Press. He lives outside of Boston.
 

Dan Mazur

Dan Mazur previous graphic novels are Lunatic (2020) and Hannabell Hobb and Her Horrible Heads (2021). His comics have appeared in numerous anthologies. His history book, Comics, A Global History: 1968 to the Present (2014, co-written with Alexander Danner) has been translated into seven languages. As a screenwriter, his credits include Brave New World (1998), Night of The Scarecrow (1995) and Virtual Nightmare (2000), as well as uncredited writing on John Carpenter’s Vampires and K-9. He is co-founder of MICE, the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo and the Boston Comics Roundtable.

Attendance is capped for this in person event; registration required.