The Spirit and Will Eisner's Early Comics
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Will Eisner's Later Career and Legacy
Those who only know of The Spirit through the 2007 Frank Miller movie should definitely read up on the real thing. (Though I didn't find Miller's adaptation as bad as everyone said – it just felt way more like Sin City than anything Eisner ever did, with the good humor of the original characters replaced with Miller-esque ultra-violence.)
Those more interested in the technical side of comics, from Eisner's perspective (and others), should check out these Six Classics of Comic Book Theory.