{"id":8,"date":"2005-01-04T12:24:16","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T16:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=8"},"modified":"2005-01-04T12:24:16","modified_gmt":"2005-01-04T16:24:16","slug":"rip-will-eisner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/04\/rip-will-eisner\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Will Eisner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Eisner, who managed to be one of the most interesting artists working in comic books for two-thirds of a century, has died at the age of 87. I&#8217;m a little stunned&#8211;you don&#8217;t think of somewhat that vibrant dying so unexpectedly, regardless of his age&#8211;or at least I don&#8217;t. (At last year&#8217;s San Diego Con, he was one of the most animated, intellectually-engaged guests I saw on any panel.) And I&#8217;m on a business trip. So for the time being I&#8217;ll just point you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2005_01_04.html#009385\">Mark Evanier&#8217;s report<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbarrier.com\/Essays\/Eisner\/essay_Eisner.htm\">Mike Barrier&#8217;s essay on Eisner&#8217;s work<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Eisner, who managed to be one of the most interesting artists working in comic books for two-thirds of a century, has died at the age of 87. I&#8217;m a little stunned&#8211;you don&#8217;t think of somewhat that vibrant dying so unexpectedly, regardless of his age&#8211;or at least I don&#8217;t. (At last year&#8217;s San Diego Con, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/04\/rip-will-eisner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP Will Eisner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}