In a career that spanned nearly seventy years and eight decades—from the dawn of the comic book to the advent of digital comics—he truly was the 'Orson Welles of comics' and the 'father of the Graphic Novel'. He broke new ground in the development of visual narrative and the language of comics and was the creator of The Spirit, John Law, Lady Luck, Mr. Mystic, Uncle Sam, Blackhawk, Sheena and countless others."}Bookscape | Will eisner