I Have To Live With This Guy

by Blake Bell, Will Eisner, Alan Moore

Will Eisner does what? Alan Moore said that? Dave Sim is really like that? Take a deep look into what it's been like living with comic book creators over the past 60 years, with the people who know them best! This trade paperback explores the lives of the partners and wives of Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Stan Lee, Joe Kubert, Harvey Kurtzman, John Romita, Gene Colan, Dan DeCarlo, Dick Ayers, Archie Goodwin, Ric Estrada, Dave Sim, Howard Cruse, Dave Cooper, and more! In addition to sharing memories and anecdotes you'll find nowhere else, their better halves have also opened up private files to unearth personal photos, mementos, and never-before-seen art by the top creators in comics! Once you've read this book, you'll You only thought you knew them!

Genres: Comics, Biography

208 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2002

About the author

Writer of multiple books on comic-book creators. Books include "Fire & Water: Bill Everett, The Sub-Mariner & The Birth of Marvel Comics"; "Strange & Stranger: The World Of Steve Ditko", "I Have To Live With This Guy!", plus multiple introductions and forewords for Marvel and DC Comics. Also, editor of "The Steve Ditko Archives" volumes for Fantagraphics.

Reviews

[Rahadyan · Rating 3 out of 5]

As at least one other reviewer has noted, the title of Blake Bell's series of interviews with the wives or partners of comics creators belies the serious tone of the book. "I Have to Live With This Guy!" sheds light on the struggles and triumphs of icons such as Stan Lee, Will Eisner, Joe Kubert, Alan Moore and lesser known creators such as Dick Ayers and Howard Cruse. I would have preferred that Mr. Bell have written in past tense rather than a present tense (perhaps to convey a sense of history in the making?) but otherwise this is a valuable chronicle.