Not necessarily by dint of his talent, although that was undeniable, but by his unswerving dedication, belief and contribution to the medium. If there was such a thing as royalty in comics, Eisner was it. There was however one notable exception, Will Eisner.īorn in 1917 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of an Austrian father and a Romanian mother, Eisner’s career in comics spanned almost seventy years.
The “superhero” genre continued as a comics staple and its artists and writers for the most part did not stray from their chosen and proven format. By then, the comics industry, like most everything else, had felt the changes wrought by the Sixties and its underground culture. Mad continues to be published, although its heyday waned in the early 1970s.
Neuman, kept smirking from the front cover. More than once the comic landed itself in legal disputes which went as far as the Supreme Court, but Mad always seemed to have the last laugh and its mascot, the freckled, ever-grinning and instantly recognizable Alfred E. Its tone of irreverence held nothing sacred Republicans, Democrats, hippies, Vietnam, the media, big business everything and everybody was fair game. (photo credit: Courtesy)Ĭomics artists today still remark on the influence Mad exerted on them.
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