Will Eisner interviewed other important figures in comics back when Kitchen Sink had the property. These interviews would run in issues of The Spirit Magazine and the subsequent Will Eisner's Quarterly. The interviews were collected together in the book Shop Talk first published a decade ago. The book is made up transcripts of these interviews decorated with lots of artwork by the talents involved.
Here at the Internet Archive is an absolute treasure trove of these interviews as they were recorded. I had not heard the voices of most of these fellows and it gives them a bit more presence in my life for sure. To admire Gil Kane's artwork is great, but to actually hear him talk about his process is amazing. Likewise with the others such as Jack Kirby, C.C. Beck, Joe Simon, Harvey Kurtzman, Neal Adams, Joe Kubert and Joe Gill. There are hours and hours of information from the sources themselves, all of them deceased now.
Here are the individual Kitchen Sink magazine issues in which these interviews first appeared.
(Gil Kane)
(C.C. Beck)
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Some of those covers, especially the Spirit Magazine issue are just lovely. I really like Eisners art style at this,stage and as he got older. A true legend of the genre
ReplyDeleteI find it fascinating how the women change over the decades in his work. They change from slender femme fatales to more matronly dames, more reflective of reality. He never stopped growing it seemed.
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