Editing Will Eisner (section)

==Death==
Eisner died January 3, 2005, in [[Lauderdale Lakes, Florida]], of complications from a quadruple [[Coronary artery bypass surgery|bypass surgery]] performed December 22, 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/scoop_article.asp?ai=7363&si=121 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050418055800/http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/scoop_article.asp?ai=7363&si=121 |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 18, 2005 |title=Gemstone Publishing: ''Industry News'' (January 7, 2005): "In Memoriam: Will Eisner" |publisher=Scoop.diamondgalleries.com |access-date=February 2, 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://www.sfwa.org/news/weisner.htm "Will Eisner (1917–2005)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821161735/http://sfwa.org/news/weisner.htm |date=August 21, 2007 }}, ''SF&F Publishing News'', Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, January 4, 2005. Retrieved 2011-02-02 [https://web.archive.org/web/20150222014528/http://www.sfwa.org/archive/news/weisner.htm WebCitation archive].</ref> DC Comics held a memorial service in Manhattan's [[Lower East Side]], a neighborhood Eisner often visited in his work, at the [[Angel Orensanz Center|Angel Orensanz Foundation]] on Norfolk Street.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080618102907/http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/public/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=34&s=259&ai=48748&ssd=3/19/2005&arch=y ""DC Comics Celebrates Will Eisner"], "Scoop" (column), Gemstone Publishing, Inc. / Diamond International Galleries, March 19, 2005. Retrieved 2011-02-02.</ref>

Eisner was survived by his wife, Ann Weingarten Eisner, and their son, John.<ref>Gravett, Paul. [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jan/08/guardianobituaries.books "Obituary: Will Eisner: He pioneered American comic books, and established the graphic novel as a literary genre"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', January 8, 2005. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130326031104/http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/jan/08/guardianobituaries.books WebCitation archive].</ref><ref>Boxer, Sarah. [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/05/books/05eisner.html "Will Eisner, a Pioneer of Comic Books, Dies at 87"], ''The New York Times'', January 5, 2005.</ref><ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1480482/Will-Eisner.html Obituaries: Will Eisner], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', January 6, 2005.</ref> In the introduction to the 2001 reissue of ''A Contract with God'', Eisner revealed that the inspiration for the title story grew out of the 1970 death of his [[leukemia]]-stricken teenaged daughter, Alice, next to whom he is buried. Until then, only Eisner's closest friends were aware of his daughter's life and death.