{"id":30546,"date":"2024-09-15T10:22:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T10:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=30546"},"modified":"2024-09-15T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T10:22:38","slug":"will-eisners-hawks-of-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2024\/09\/15\/will-eisners-hawks-of-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Eisner\u2019s Hawks of the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Will Eisner<\/strong> & various (Kitchen Sink Press\/Dark Horse)
\nISBN: 978-1-56971-427-0 (DH HB) 978-0-87816-023-5 (Kitchen Sink TPB)<\/p>\n

In case you didn\u2019t know, it\u2019s my favourite global holiday next week – International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Fill yer big floppy boots, me \u2018earties!<\/em><\/p>\n

This book includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> produced in less enlightened times.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s pretty much accepted today that Will Eisner was one of the absolute prime creative forces that shaped the comic book industry, but still many of his milestones escape public acclaim in the English-speaking world. This dynamic and pivotal treasure trove is one long overdue for fresh efforts and digital immortality.<\/p>\n

From 1936 to 1938 Eisner worked as a jobbing cartoonist in the comics production firm known as the Eisner-Eiger Shop, creating a wave of strips to be published in both domestic US and foreign markets. Using among others the pen-name Willis B. Rensie he wrote and drew the sadly unfinished saga of a mysterious early American adventurer known only as \u201cThe Hawk\u201d, who sailed the 18th<\/sup> century Caribbean seas with his piratical band. Intellectual and a dreamer, the freebooter had been taken as a slave, and now dedicated his life to destroying the slave trade and punishing injustice.<\/p>\n

With a stalwart yet wholesomely scurvy crew of stock characters at his back, this charismatic blend of Robin Hood<\/strong>, Sir Francis Drake and the Count of Monte Cristo<\/strong> captivated readers all over the world in single-page instalments of swashbuckling thrills delivering spectacular bravura art and narrative ingenuity: appearing in newspapers and weekly magazines as far apart as England, South America, France, and Australia.<\/p>\n

After years as a lost classic, it was first curated and gathered into an awesome collected edition (measuring 376 x 270) by the diligent and dedicated Dennis Kitchen, thanks mainly to happenstance and the good graces of another comics legend, Al Williamson. The illustrator had been a huge fan of the strip when it ran in Paquin<\/em><\/strong> – a weekly strip anthology magazine he\u2019d avidly read growing up in Bogota, Colombia.<\/p>\n

Decades later, now a revered professional artist, Williamson acquired an almost complete run of publisher\u2019s proof sheets – in Spanish – which, when translated and re-lettered, formed the basis of this volume. Fellow well-wishers in France, England and Australia also contributed pages resulting in an (almost) complete run.<\/p>\n

Seemingly lost again, Hawks of the Seas<\/strong> was re-issued in 2003 by Dark Horse as part of their Will Eisner Library (although at a more modest and bookshelf-friendly size than the tabloid-scaled KSP edition) and remains a fascinating insight into this creator\u2019s imaginative power, moral and philosophical fascinations and spellbinding ability to tell a great story with magical pictures. It\u2019s also a thumping good tale of action, suspense, and buccaneering derring-do that will captivate kids of all ages, so let\u2019s PUH-LEASE have some savvy publisher makes the necessary moves soon.<\/p>\n

Sod and keelhaul Jack Sparrow<\/em>: get on the trail of The Hawk…
\n\u00a9 1986 Kitchen Sink Press. 2003 Will Eisner. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Will Eisner & various (Kitchen Sink Press\/Dark Horse) ISBN: 978-1-56971-427-0 (DH HB) 978-0-87816-023-5 (Kitchen Sink TPB) In case you didn\u2019t know, it\u2019s my favourite global holiday next week – International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Fill yer big floppy boots, me \u2018earties! This book includes Discriminatory Content produced in less enlightened times. It\u2019s pretty … <\/p>\n

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