Into the Eisenshpritz
Elif Batuman: Superheroes, 10 April 2008
Life, in Pictures: Autobiographical Stories
by Will Eisner.
Norton, 493 pp., £18.99, November 2007,978 0 393 06107 9 Show More
by Will Eisner.
Norton, 493 pp., £18.99, November 2007,
Misery Loves Comedy
by Ivan Brunetti.
Fantagraphics, 172 pp., £15.99, April 2007,978 1 56097 792 6 Show More
by Ivan Brunetti.
Fantagraphics, 172 pp., £15.99, April 2007,
“... The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, The X-Men and Doctor Strange, was born Stanley Martin Lieber. And the first issue of Superman was published, in 1938, by two young American Jews, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. As Michael Chabon wrote in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000), whose protagonists are loosely based on Siegel and ... ”