COMIC ARTIST

Will Eisner

1917 - 2005

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William Erwin Eisner (; March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series The Spirit (1940–1952) was noted for its experiments in content and form. In 1978, he popularized the term "graphic novel" with the publication of his book A Contract with God. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Will Eisner has received more than 893,217 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Will Eisner is the 38th most popular comic artist (down from 27th in 2019), the 2,133rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,786th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Comic Artist.

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  • 890k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Will Eisner ranks 38 out of 226. Before him are Cabu, Yoshihiro Togashi, Hirohiko Araki, Winsor McCay, Katsuhiro Otomo, and Shigeru Mizuki. After him are Philippe Honoré, Caran d'Ache, Shotaro Ishinomori, Guillermo Mordillo, Gosho Aoyama, and Charles Addams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Will Eisner ranks 90. Before him are Louis Zamperini, Yukio Tsuda, Ko Arima, Hirokazu Ninomiya, Nikolai Ogarkov, and Otto Kittel. After him are Zhang Chunqiao, Jean Rouch, Atle Selberg, Harold Garfinkel, Augusto Roa Bastos, and Buddy Rich. Among people deceased in 2005, Will Eisner ranks 74. Before him are Charly Gaul, Dana Elcar, Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, Ba Jin, Richard Pryor, and Yao Wenyuan. After him are Zhang Chunqiao, Vincent Schiavelli, Augusto Roa Bastos, Cicely Saunders, Annette Stroyberg, and Urie Bronfenbrenner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Will Eisner ranks 2,133 out of 20,380. Before him are Jim Parsons (1973), Jennifer Beals (1963), John Cusack (1966), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Andrea M. Ghez (1965), and Chris Pratt (1979). After him are George Smith (1941), Richard Bull (1924), Vera Farmiga (1973), Roger Ailes (1940), Robert Hansen (1939), and Bernard Malamud (1914).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, Will Eisner ranks 10. Before him are Matt Groening (1954), Jack Kirby (1917), Bob Kane (1915), Steve Ditko (1927), Don Rosa (1951), and Winsor McCay (1867). After him are Charles Addams (1912), Bill Finger (1914), Frank Miller (1957), Charles M. Schulz (1922), Jerry Siegel (1914), and E. C. Segar (1894).

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