#86 Will Eisner Week With Danny Fingeroth

ABOUT THE EPISODE

Author, editor, & historian Danny Fingeroth joins Sean to talk about Will Eisner Week. They discuss who Will Eisner is, what happens during Will Eisner Week, how people can participate in it, and the upcoming books that Danny is currently working on. 

ABOUT THE GUEST

Danny Fingeroth is a popular-culture critic and historian. His most recent book is 2019’s A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee, published by St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan, a well-reviewed biography of the controversial, pioneering Lee, the Jewish co-creator of Marvel’s most famous characters. The book—the first biography of Lee to appear after his death— was a Times of London and SyFy Book of the Year. 

A longtime executive editor and writer at Marvel Comics, where he ran the company’s Spider-Man line, Fingeroth is the author of other books including Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society and Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews Comics and the Creation of the Superhero. All three books are available as audiobooks read by the author.

Fingeroth has spoken on comics-related topics at Columbia University, the Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum, the San Diego Comic-Con, and many other venues. 

He is currently at work on books about iconic 20th Century figures Bob Dylan and Jack Ruby. The Ruby book will be published in the fall of 2023 by Chicago Review Press.

RESOURCES & LINKS

• Episode Page - “#86 Will Eisner Week With Danny Fingeroth”
• Will Eisner Week
• Danny Fingeroth’s Website
• BOOK - A Contract With God and Other Stories of Dropsie Avenue
• Join The Illuminicasters’ Discord
• Our Blog of Comics, Movies, & Series Reviews, Top 5 Lists, and Announcements
• Comic Watch
• The Captioned Life Show website

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