Will Eisner, 1917-2005

photo by Richard Patterson/NYT

Warren Ellis is the first I've seen to report that comics legend Will Eisner has died following a quadruple bypass just before Christmas. Eisner is most famous for creating the masked vigilante character The Spirit, but the full extent of his contributions to the medium encompasses so much more.

The Plot, his graphic novel-length investigation into the origins of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, is on Norton's spring schedule. You can learn more about it from interviews Eisner gave last year to the Washington Post and the New York Times.