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Welcome to Season 3 of Storytelling with Seth This is Episode 2! March 1-7 is Will Eisner Week. Who was Will Eisner? He was one of the first comic book artists and the creator of the syndicated newspaper comic strip The Spirit. He also created one of the first graphic novels. 'A Contract with God defined the graphic novel format and cemented it as the potential of comics to be regarded as Art. Or what Eisner termed "sequential art." You can learn more by visiting http://www.willeisner.com Who is Danny Fingeroth? Danny is is the Chair of Will Eisner Week. Danny started as a comic book writer for Marvel. He later became the group editor for the Spider Man books. He is a teacher of comics and gives presentations on Will Eisner around the country. You can learn more about him at http://dannyfingeroth.com He is the author of the book A Marvelous Life about Marvel legend Stan Lee. You can buy your copy here https://www.amazon.com/Marvelous-Life-Amazing-Story-Stan/dp/1250133904 For more information about Andrew Kunka and the letters between Will Eisner and Jack Katz about the graphic novel you can use this link https://muse.jhu.edu/article/651961 To Learn about Jack Katz and The First Kingdom you can listen to my three conversations with Jack here on Storytelling with Seth or check out his book The First Kingdom by visiting this link https://www.goodreads.com/series/115187-the-first-kingdom Learn more about how Will Eisner's work was compared to Film Noir by using this link http://filmnoirfoundation.org/noircitymag/Will-Eisner.pdf Learn about the story of Gerhard Shnobble copy this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTEO-FdFfi8 If you share this episode please use the tag #WillEisnerWeek To Contact Seth Singleton On Social Media Instagram https://www.instagram.com/seththewriter/ Twitter https://twitter.com/1MoreSingleton Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SethSingletonStoryteller/ Website https://sethsingletonstoryteller.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/seth-the-storyteller/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seth-the-storyteller/support