The Rice Dragon -- another beautifully drawn story of the Heap

Both the pencils and inks are from the marvelous Ernest Schroeder. Also of interest for its rather sympathetic portrayal of Japanese villagers so soon after the war.

From Airboy vol. 9 number 10 via Just a Pile of Old Comics.

Just because we haven't posted an L.B. Cole cover for a while

From the Four Color War

Eisner's Influences

http://comicartville.com/rareeisner.htm


"The early Man Ray films interested me tremendously. I used to go down to the New School and spend hours looking at these old Man Ray experimental films; and it gradually dawned on me that these films were nothing but frames on a piece of celluloid, which is really no different than frames on a piece of paper. And pretty soon, it became to me film on paper, and so obviously the influence was there."

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Yes, I do read more recent comics and here are two that impressed the hell out of me

Cartooning tips from the Oscar-winning Harman and Ising

From Crackajack #12, 13 and 14