Will Eisner Tribute in Google Logo
I love the daily logos that Google manages to come up with to spark their search pages. it seems that they find the most wonderful things to design logos around. Today, the 6th of March, 2011, is no different. Today's logo features Will Eisner's comic creation 'The Spirit', and is done in the style of the openening pages from the series. Today marks what would have been his 94th birthday.
Taken from Google's official blog, Scott McCloud writes:
"Eisner influenced comics in dozens of ways. In the ‘40s, Eisner’s The Spirit—a seven-page newspaper feature—introduced an arsenal of visual storytelling techniques still used generations later, and provided an early testing ground for future comics stars including Jack Kirby and Jules Feiffer. (The Spirit also began a tradition of pictorially-integrated logos—inspiring today's snazzy rooftop doodle!)
Eisner was one of the first cartoonists to understand the power of visual education, and wrote eloquently about the process of making comics in Comics and Sequential Art (1985) andGraphic Storytelling (1996). As early as 1941, he publicly advocated treating comics as a distinct literary and artistic form, and—nearly four decades later—was instrumental in the rise of the graphic novel in America, beginning with A Contract with God in 1978."
Most people, outside of comic fans, would not have any clue who this man was. That would include me! But thanks to Google, I now know who he was. Thanks Google!
