Will Eisner, comics pioneer, dies

Will Eisner died Monday after heart surgery. He was 87 years old. Neil Gaiman offers an appreciation of the man. You can read Eisner's biography here.
Among his major works were A Contract With God, To the Heart of the Storm, and The Neighborhood: Dropsie Avenue. He was also the creator of the seminal hero character, The Spirit and one of the first, and probably most important, books on the art of creating comics, Comics and Sequential Art.