tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post7707324001749724775..comments2024-03-28T16:55:49.068+00:00Comments on CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: RECOMMENDED READING: WILL EISNER'S THE SPIRIT - BY DARWYN COOKE...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-68781692696567918192022-04-11T06:06:03.203+01:002022-04-11T06:06:03.203+01:00I'm often surprised at which posts attract loa...I'm often surprised at which posts attract loads of comments, a handful of comments, or none at all. B. It's difficult if not impossibly to predict with any degree of accuracy. I'll add the DC Spirit Archives to the list (not sure, but I may have the first one), but there's a helluva lot of stuff on that list.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-9746873317960579862022-04-11T05:28:15.154+01:002022-04-11T05:28:15.154+01:00I’m surprised that this post attracted so few comm...I’m surprised that this post attracted so few comments. I’m a massive Darwyn Cooke fan, and loved these 12 Spirit comics he did (plus the Batman team-up), and I picked up the hardback books a few years back. Reading the Cooke version inspired me to pick up the first 5 editions of the hardback Spirit archives which I picked up at $3 each in a second hand shop in DeKalb, Illinois a few years back. Great stuff - and they filled in a massive gap in my knowledge of comics history. I really recommend those Spirit archive editions from DC if you can get them.baggseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01126205345158158957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-15569806363932986482016-07-23T10:26:41.743+01:002016-07-23T10:26:41.743+01:00I really must catch up on the Eisner material one ...I really must catch up on the Eisner material one day, PC. I think everything gets collected nowadays, but apart from New Frontier and the Graphic Ink book, the collections of Darwyn's work are quite slim volumes. Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-24376085628656382242016-07-23T08:28:59.189+01:002016-07-23T08:28:59.189+01:00Aaaaand the shopping list grows ever longer! I hav...Aaaaand the shopping list grows ever longer! I have been a long-time fan of Eisner's the Spirit (not so much of his later scratchily-drawn real-life tenement stories), my first introduction via the colour Harvey reprints. Imagine my surprise on finding that the originals were all in black and white, which I did on reading and collecting all 16 of the Warren reprint issues (with a coloured one in each issue). Being a bit of a Film Noir fan by that stage (mid '70s) the noir stylings of his art had added appeal even beyond his brilliant 7 page 'short stories' and character studies. Darwyn seems to have been quite prolific judging by all of the collections out there,Philip Crawleynoreply@blogger.com