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One of the seminal American comic artists. He also did training guides for the U.S. Army during WW2.

TAMARAC, Fla. — What do you do 25 years after creating a new artistic genre? If you are Will Eisner, you do the same thing again in your late 80's. "A Contract With God," set in the tenements of his Bronx youth and published in 1978, established Mr. Eisner as the father of the graphic novel. Now he has taken the adult comic-book format a step further, with a graphic history that applies his dark, 1930's-style illustrations to real events of a century ago. This latest work, called "The Plot," tells the story behind the creation of "The Protocols of...

I found this interesting image at the U.S. Army Logistics Command's PS Magazine site today. If you're an Army veteran (or an Army brat!) you know PS -- it's the world's only monthly comics magazine dedicated to the maintenance and upkeep of military vehicles and equipment in the field. Click over to the official PS Magazine website and note the locale of the flea-bitten GI depicted in Joe Kubert's cover for the January issue: the "field" is depicted as a sandy desert, where sunscreen and sand-flea repellent are necessary and from where soldiers are encouraged to write home. Sound like...