Book of the Month - Best of the Spirit

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4.6 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2007

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Will Eisner is one of the most important men in comics. In this episode we take a look at a collection of stories of his flagship creation, The Spirit. We are joined by Will's friend and business partner Denis Kitchen. Denis lends up his expertise and helps us understand why Will is so important.

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0:00.0	This is Comic Geeks Speak, Book of the Month, episode 22, The Best of the Spirit.
0:18.3	Welcome to Comic Geeks Speak. I'm Brian Deamer.
0:22.3	I'm Adam Murdo. I'm Shane Kelly. I'm Brian Christman. I'm Jimmy Dee. And I'm Peter Rios. And this episode of Comic Geek Speak is sponsored by
0:27.7	Instocktrades.com. Save up to 35% off on all trades and get free shipping on
0:33.5	orders of $50 or more. Go to in-stock trades.com.
0:40.3	And joining us for this episode to discuss the best of the spirit is Mr. Dennis Kitchin.
0:45.8	Welcome to the show, Dennis.
0:47.5	Oh, thank you.
0:49.7	For those of you who may not have heard other Book of the Months, basically this is a look at one trade, one storyline, et cetera.
0:59.2	And we will be talking about it, and there are spoilers.
1:01.9	We talk in depth about the Best of Spirit trade.
1:05.8	So if you haven't read it and you don't want to be spoiled, don't listen.
1:10.4	But I think
1:10.8	this will probably be more of just like a general overview of, you know, not only the spirit, but
1:14.7	the book and also Will Eisner as well. So I think, I think there'll be a lot to be
1:20.7	learned here. For those of you who don't know Dennis Kitchen, you can go to DennisKitchin.com.
1:26.8	He's a cartoonist, a writer, an editor, a publisher, entrepreneur, started a publisher, started
1:31.8	KitchenSink Press, excuse me.
1:35.8	And also looking through your bio, which I didn't know, you founded the Comic Book Legal
1:40.1	Defense Fund.
1:41.4	Yeah, that's right.
1:42.3	That's amazing.
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