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Will Eisner, of whom I spoke in my very first blog post, has passed away at the age of 87 of complications from heart surgery.

The debt that modern comics storytelling owes to Eisner cannot be underestimated — there’s a reason the comic industry’s versions of the Academy Awards are called the Eisners — both in form and in presentation (the concept of the “graphic novel” was largely his brainchild).

To the end, Eisner had “a hunger to conquer the medium – to achieve the impossible dream kind of like a Don Quixote of the comics.”

His was a hunger that nourished comic readers the world over.

Goodbye, Will.