Will Eisner

Imagination Meets Paper Opening a book is like unlocking a door to a limitless place where imagination comes to life. Raina Telgemeier illustrates this concept in her masterpiece, Ghosts. In this exceptional graphic novel, a girl named Cat moves to California with her family in hopes that the air by the sea will help her little sister, who suffers from a lung disease called Cystic Fibrosis, breathe. In California, imagination becomes a reality when Cat realizes that the town is full of Day of…

the value of the uncertainty and even surprises that occur when children formulate, execute, and manage their making/playing - as well as the possibility that the experience may foster one to visualize and imagine a personally meaningful purpose (Eisner, 2002; Root-Bernstein and Root-Bernstein,1999). It is plausible children may not realize their purpose without explicit scaffolding, or children may appear to be aimlessly playing. This notion may be unobservable or only temporary as children…

problem-solving skills” (Robertson). She then utilizes the words of Professor Elliot Eisner at Stanford University who says, “The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of the large lessons kids can learn from practicing the arts is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world” (Eisner). Instead of having students focus solely on academics, schools can allow…

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Volume 1: The Crucible. Vol. 1, Archie Comic Publications, Inc., 2016. Eisner, Will. “Comics & Sequential Art.” Comics & Sequential Art, www.floobynooby.com/pdfs/Will_Eisner-Theory_of_Comics_and_Sequential_Art.pdf. “Evil.” Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evil. Miller, Arthur. The crucible:…

comeuppance. Whether Eisner is just fictionalizing his memories seems irrelevant in the midst of so many images of violence (often coupled with sex and nudity). It was shown with a theme of escape, a place where those who suffered might see this as more than just a vacation. A place to start over in life, how luck wasn't on their side from the beginning. Wearing a mask to show others how faithful you are. From having a fake career to just finding someone that connects with you. Will Eisner…

comic medium. In this half semi-autobiographical work, Eisner illustrates and describes what 1930s New York City tenement life was like. While most of the short stories place the characters in the fictional 55 Dropsie Ave tenement or in the city itself, two stories, “Cookalein” and “A Contract with God,” are either set in natural spaces, or the outdoors play an important role in the construction and understanding of the story. In his work, Eisner pointedly uses natural elements to punctuate the…

These assumptions are what have led us to curriculum that does not take into account the multidisciplinary nature of the world. According to Eisner (2003, p. 6), we must “think outside of the box about how we select content and organize curricula for school programs” so that we may provide students with a wide variety of opportunities and allow for “understanding that otherwise would be absent”…

In late 1996, China’s leaders vehemently objected to Disney’s plans to distribute the movie ‘Kundun,’ Martin Scorsese’s film that told the story of Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and China’s brutal occupation of that nation. Following the film’s release in 1997, China’s leaders made threatening statements concerning Disney’s future in their markets. Disney held firm on its position on the movie. “Disney’s potential business in China is infinite. But Disney has to decide whether…

researcher’s unique strengths rather than on standardization and on uniformity. Investigators will do things in ways which make sense to them given the problem in which they are interested, the aptitude they possess and the context in which they work. (Eisner, 1991, p.169). Use of interpretive field research creates space for a relatively wholistic view of real contexts and attending to various features of professional experience. Focus on ordinary events in natural settings with an emphasis on…

it protects them (Dodds, par. 5). The American Academy of Pediatrics reports that condom availability has no impact on the amount of high school students having sex, but simply decrease the unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (Eisner, par.…