Attached Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48732-2005Jan4.html

This is turning into a sad year and it has barely started. Will Eisner died after quadruple heart bypass surgery on the 3rd. His comics are legendary, but what is perhaps more important is how he thought about "sequential art" and his books about comic creation. We who are storytellers and animators will especially miss his unique vision. ***** "His later works were reviewed by the New York Review of Books, which once noted that with Mr. Eisner, "the comics medium becomes something naturalistic, wry, introspective, and literate -- that is, in the comics universe, something truly otherworldly." "