Will Eisner was a multi-award-winning American cartoonist who created The Spirit. He was the writer of A Contract with God, To the Heart of the Storm, Invisible People, and Dropsie Avenue.

Eisner was a pioneering force in comics for over six decades, consequently, the comic industry's highest honor, the Eisner Award, was named for him. He was a multi-faceted artist who coined the term "sequential art" and was a pioneer of the graphic novel.

Will founded the American Visual Corporation in 1951, which published numerous official manuals in comic form, magazines and other instructional materials for the government, related agencies, businesses and schools. He was also an educator who taught classes for years at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and authored two definitive instructional books on the medium, Comics and Sequential Art and Graphic Storytelling.

Full or original name at birth: William Erwin Eisner

Date and place of birth: March 6, 1917, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.

Date, place and cause of death: January 3, 2005, at Florida Medical Center, Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, U.S.A.* (Complications from heart bypass surgery)

Marriage
Wife: Ann Louise Weingarten (m. June 15, 1950 - January 3, 2005) (his death)

Children
Son: John David Eisner
Daughter: Alice Carol Eisner

Parents
Father: Samuel Eisner
Mother: Fannie Eisner

* He did not die at "Florida Lakes Hospital" as one source erroneously claims.

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