Media Release -- MoCCA and The Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation are proud to announce that, as part of Will Eisner Week, 2012, they will be presenting a panel discussion entitled "Will Eisner: Making the World Safe for Graphic Novels." The panel will consist of comics legends Paul Levitz (who will also moderate) and Dennis O'Neil, who knew and worked with Eisner, longtime Eisner agent Judith Hansen, and Columbia University Comics Librarian Karen Green. The panel, organized by Will Eisner Week Planning Committee chair Danny Fingeroth, will discuss Eisner's creative and business accomplishments and legacy, and his continuing impact on the world of sequential art, from the 1930s to the present.

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Media Release -- Why and how did the guy who invented and conquered entertainment comics and then spent 25 successful years creating educational comics reinvent himself, the medium of sequential art, and the comics industry itself through his innovation in the literary and autobiographical graphic novel and his endless advocacy for comics as an art form?

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Media Release -- The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art – MoCCA – and The Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation are proud to announce that, as part of Will Eisner Week, 2011, they will be presenting a screening of the award-winning Documentary "Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist," followed by a special panel with the film's makers, Andrew D. Cooke and Jon B. Cooke. The panel will be moderated by Danny Fingeroth, MoCCA's SVP of Education and co-curator of Will Eisner's New York: From the Spirit to the Modern Graphic Novel exhibition, currently on view at MoCCA.

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Media Release -- The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art – MoCCA – is proud to announce that work by an astonishing roster of top cartoonists from across a span of seven decades will be on display as part of the Will Eisner's New York: From The Spirit to the Modern Graphic Novel exhibition that opens March 1st at MoCCA.

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Media Release -- The Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award, presented under the auspices of Comic-Con International: San Diego, is given to an individual retailer who has done an outstanding job of supporting the comics art medium both in the community and within the industry at large.

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Media Release -- Wouldn't you love to see your favorite comics retailer receive coveted Will Eisner "Spirit of Comics" Retailer Award? Now's your chance to help them by nominating them for the 2010 Award online. Remember, past winners are not eligible. Get complete details for Guidelines and Judging Criterion on our website. It only takes a few minutes of your time to help recognize the outstanding retailer in your community. The deadline for submissions is April 16, 2010. The award will be presented at the gala Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards at Comic-Con International on Friday, July 23, 2010.

The first week of March will mark the inaugural Will Eisner Week, a celebration of Will Eisner's legacy in graphic novel literacy and free expression. A collaborative project of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, The Will & Ann Eisner Family Foundation, and a variety of comics institutions, Will Eisner Week is chaired by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design's Assistant Professor Barbara Schulz. Will Eisner Week will be celebrated this year from March 1 to March 7, commemorating the 92nd anniversary of Eisner's birth.

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