Will Eisner’s Final Story
January 11th, 2005It appears that the last thing Will Eisner wrote was a Spirit/Escapist crossover story for Michael Chabon’s quarterly comics anthology:
Before Eisner entered the hospital for his heart surgery, he finished one last story, set for publication in April by Dark Horse, in which The Spirit meets Chabon’s fictional brainchild, the Escapist, and the two characters wrestle with society’s need for superheroes and simple solutions in a complex age.
That issue of The Escapist (#6) should appear in April. In the meantime, issue #5 is scheduled for a 2/23 release and features contributions from Howard Chaykin, Jason Hall, Kevin McCarthy, Roy Thomas, Eric Wight, Paul Grist, Jeffrey Brown, David Hahn, Shawn Martinbrough, and others. [via]
January 11th, 2005 at 10:16 am
That sounds cool. It still need to get the second Escapist collection, come to think of it. B&N had tons of copies of the first one but I haven’t seen the second one anywhere.
January 11th, 2005 at 10:26 am
I’ve been buying them quarterly (in comics shops) because I find the individual issues easy to read. The trade paperback collections are a little cramped.
January 19th, 2005 at 1:46 am
That sounds great! I didn’t know they were actually drawing the Escapist, but I loved “Kavalier & Clay”!