Spirit Vol. 1 (Spirit (DC Comics))

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From Booklist This collection completes Cooke’s too-brief run on the slightly modernized revival of Will Eisner’s classic crimefighter comic. All Cooke’s efforts display his breezy storytelling and dynamically economical art, but the last he did, a retelling of a tale in which the Spirit is reunited with his childhood sweetheart, Sand Saref, epitomizes Cooke’s remarkable accomplishment of honoring Eisner’s singular talent while displaying his equal giftedness. A handful of stories by other leading writers and artists fill out the book; while they are creditable, they drive home by contrast the fact that Cooke was perhaps the only contemporary creator capable of replicating Eisner’s distinctive seriocomic tone. --Gordon Flagg Read more About the Author Darwyn Cooke was an Eisner Award-winning cartoonist and animator. After spending several years as a magazine art director and graphic designer, Cooke switched careers and began working in animation, where he contributed to such shows as Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, and Men in Black: The Series. DC Comics then approached Cooke to write and illustrate Batman: Ego, which Cooke had pitched unsuccessfully several years earlier. The critical success of the title led to the relaunch of the Catwoman series with writer Ed Brubaker. Cooke then spent several years writing and drawing the ambitious epic The New Frontier. He was also the writer/artist of Before Watchmen: Minutemen and co-writer of Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre. Read more