Editing Will Eisner (section)

==Awards and honors==

Eisner has been recognized for his work with the [[National Cartoonists Society]] Comic Book Award for 1967, 1968, 1969, 1987 and 1988, as well as its Story Comic Book Award in 1979,<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.reuben.org/ncs-awards/division-awards/#comic|title= Division Awards Comic Books|year= 2013|publisher= [[National Cartoonists Society]]|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130121103443/http://www.reuben.org/ncs-awards/division-awards/#comic|archive-date= January 21, 2013|url-status= live|access-date= December 16, 2013}}</ref> and its [[Reuben Award]] in 1998. In 1975, he was awarded the [[Inkpot Award]] and the second [[Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot| title = Inkpot Award| date = December 6, 2012}}</ref>

He was inducted into the [[Academy of Comic Book Arts]] Hall of Fame in 1971, and the [[Kirby Award|Jack Kirby Hall of Fame]] in 1987. The following year, the [[Eisner Award|Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards]] were established in his honor. In 2015, Eisner was posthumously elected to the [[Society of Illustrators]] Hall of Fame.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2015 Hall of Fame Inductee: Will Eisner|url=https://www.societyillustrators.org/will-eisner|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506232406/https://www.societyillustrators.org/will-eisner|archive-date=May 6, 2017|access-date=May 23, 2018|publisher=[[Society of Illustrators]]|language=en}}</ref>

Comics by Will Eisner are archived in the James Branch Cabell Library of [[Virginia Commonwealth University]].<ref>{{cite web|title=2017 News {{!}} Will Eisner Week|url=https://www.library.vcu.edu/about/news/2017/new-online-gallery-honors-comic-artist-great-will-eisner.html|website=VCU Libraries|access-date=29 March 2017}}</ref> VCU's James Branch Cabell Library has served as the repository for the [[Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards]] since 2005. Each year following [[Comic-Con]], nominated and award-winning titles are donated to the library's Special Collections and Archives and made available to researchers and visitors. Approximately 1,000 comic books, graphic novels, archival editions, scholarly titles, and journals are included in the VCU library's expansive Comic Arts Collection.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Eisner Awards: the Oscars of the Comics Industry · VCU Libraries Gallery|url=https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/eisner-awards|website=gallery.library.vcu.edu|access-date=29 March 2017}}</ref>

On the 94th anniversary of Eisner's birth, in 2011, [[Google]] used an image featuring the Spirit as its logo.<ref>Seifert, Mark. [http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/03/06/google-celebrates-will-eisners-94th-birthday-with-the-spirit-google-logo/ "Google Celebrates Will Eisner's 94th Birthday with the Spirit Google Logo"], [[Rich Johnston#Bleeding Cool|BleedingCool.com]], March 6, 2011.</ref><ref>Archive of [https://web.archive.org/web/20110307010718/http://www.google.com/ Google March 6, 2011, main page]</ref>

With [[Jack Kirby]], [[Robert Crumb]], [[Harvey Kurtzman]], [[Gary Panter]], and [[Chris Ware]], Eisner was among the artists honored in the exhibition "Masters of American Comics" at the [[Jewish Museum (New York)|Jewish Museum]] in New York City, from September 16, 2006, to January 28, 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=Exhibitions: Masters of American Comics|url=http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/Comics|access-date=August 10, 2010|publisher=The Jewish Museum|archive-date=May 11, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511174819/http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/Comics|url-status=deviated}}. .</ref><ref>Kimmelman, Michael. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/arts/design/13comi.html "See You in the Funny Papers"](art review), ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 13, 2006.</ref> In honor of Eisner's centennial in 2017, [[Denis Kitchen]] and John Lind co-curated the largest retrospective exhibitions of Will Eisner's original artwork, shown simultaneously at The Society of Illustrators in New York City and Le Musée de la [[Bande dessinée|Bande Dessinée]] in [[Angoulême|Angoulême, France]]. Both exhibitions were titled ''Will Eisner Centennial Celebration'' and collectively over 400 original pieces were included.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.societyillustrators.org/exhibits/will-eisner-centennial|title=Society of Illustrators {{!}}|website=www.societyillustrators.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-23|archive-date=July 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725064927/https://www.societyillustrators.org/exhibits/will-eisner-centennial|url-status=dead}}</ref> A catalogue of the same name was released by [[Dark Horse Comics|Dark Horse Books]] and nominated for multiple Eisner Awards in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-eisner-awards-2018-nominations-20180426-story.html|title='My Favorite Thing Is Monsters' and 'Monstress' lead 2018 Eisner Awards nominations|last=Brown|first=Tracy|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=April 27, 2018|access-date=2018-05-23}}</ref>