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Brooklynite?

The article claims that Will Eisner is a Brooklynite, but I'm not really sure about this. Isn't he from the Bronx? His pseduo-historical works all chronicle Bronx neighborhoods (the fictional Dropsie Avenue) and DeWitt Clinton, the high school he attended is in the Bronx as well. Maybe he was born in Brooklyn? I'm not sure, but that is possible. Yet even then I'd think he was more of a Bronx man than a Brooklynite.

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The 2001 photo of Eisner is grainy beyond belief and of such poor quality it in no way belongs in an encyclopedia. And I'm not sure why we have a photograph of a panel of a bunch of people who aren't Will Eisner; that looks like it's just aggrandizement for the panelists. --Tenebrae (talk) 22:49, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

True. Google doesn't turn up a lot of free images. I wonder if there's maybe a photo from an old newspaper somewhere whose copyright hasn't been renewed...

The photo of the panelist is taotally gratuitous, and a terrible picture. I've removed it.

I've got a couple Eisner bios (Andelman's & Shumacher's), and hope to get to the article sometime, though it's not at the top of my stack of priorities right now. Curly Turkey (gobble) 01:41, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm with ya, Curly! --Tenebrae (talk) 16:28, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Another “born to a Jewish family”

Why is it EVERY child of a Jewish woman, the primary definition of “who is a Jew by birth” is described in Wikipedia by the highly anti-Semetic “born to a Jewish family”? No one is “born to a Christian family (or Roman/Orthodox Catholic, Protestant (or particular Protestant sect - I have to note I just haven’t looked up how members of other religions are reeferred to - each faith, including Agnosticism as “provably true” as any other (and may you be happy with your parents’ religion or one you adopt, may it make you a better person, “better” meaning living at least by not doing to others that which you would find abhorrent if done to you” or other variation of what US Christians frequently call “the golden rule “ but held more valuable than gold by most faiths. First, when identifying someone born a Jew, identify their mother. while religious naming practices are male/female, ben/bat (son/daughter of) generally only the father’s naame, religious identity is pased through the matrilineal side. If mom’s Jewish, you are too, unless you adopt a different faith (questionable in cases where one is born Jewish but publicly renounces the faith to avoid death - basic rule: aJew can do anything to save his/her life EXCEPT kill an innocent 3rd party. Many Jews publicly denied their faith or adopted another during incidents like the Spanish Inquisition of 1492, or Nazi rule during WW II. Some fanatics maintain this violated the “1st Commandment” and died (or denounced those who did if both survived). Wikipedia is supposed to be “areligious” and treat all faiths with the same language. Why is this not the case? Linguistic Irregular (talk) 04:47, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Moving to New York

his birth year is listed as 1917. this is also posted under Early Life/Background To avoid conscription in the army, he moved to New York before the outbreak of World War I. is it possible this should be WWII? 2603:6080:2340:2334:75EF:73B6:D08:C780 (talk) 22:22, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]