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

More of Dave Berg's Merton

"The Case for Comic Books" from the people who brought you Mister Mystery

Mister Mystery had some of the most lurid covers of the pre-code horror era (and that's a high bar to clear). Whether that gives their defense of the industry more weight or less is a matter I'll leave up for discussion.

From Mad's Dave Berg -- Meet Merton

Though Dave Berg will always be remembered for The Lighter Side, most fans have forgotten that he was already a prominent comic book artist as early as the mid-Forties.

From 1953