William Erwin Eisner was born on March 6, 1917 at Brooklyn , New York City, New York. his father was a former painter. Eisner attended DeWitt Clinton High School. Upon graduation, he studied under Canadian artist George Brandt Bridgman (1864–1943) for a year at the Art Students League of New York. Contacts made there led to a position as an advertising writer-cartoonist for the New York American newspaper.
In 1936, high-school friend and fellow cartoonist Bob Kane, of future Batman fame, suggested that the 19-year-old Eisner try selling cartoons to the new comic book Wow, What A Magazine!. "Comic books" at the time were tabloid-sized collections of comic strip reprints in color.
In "late '39, just before Christmas time," Eisner recalled in 1979, Quality Comics publisher Everett M. "Busy" Arnold"came to me and said that the Sunday newspapers were looking for a way of getting into this comic book boom,"
In 2004, he published Sundiata, based on the part-historical, part-mythical stories of a West African king.
He has made some books, there were The Spirit, PS ( The Preventive Maintenance Monthly), A Contract with God and so on.
He passed away in January 3 2005 , aged 87 years old, because of complications from a quadruple bypass surgery performed December 22, 2004
Awards and Honor

• Eisner has been recognized for his work with the National Cartoonist Society Comic Book Award for 1967, 1968, 1969, 1987, and 1988, as well as its Story Comic Book Award in 1979, and its highest accolade, the Reuben Award, for 1988
• He was inducted into the Academy of Comic Book Arts Hall of Fame in 1971
• He was inducted into the  Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1987
• the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were established in his honor.
• Eisner was among the artists honored in the exhibition "Masters of American Comics" at the Jewish Museum in New York City, New York