Plenty of Spirit Left

photo by Richard Patterson/NYT

I suspect Will Eisner hasn't actually invented the graphic history, as the Times claims, but I can't fault them for believing his new work, The Plot, worthy of attention. The artwork looks amazing, and the story of the full and utter debunking of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion deserves as wide an audience as possible.

(About twenty years ago, I found a couple Spirit reprints in a Smithsonian history of the comic strip and was immediately dazzled by Eisner's work. He's easily one of the most innovative artists in the medium.)