The Spirit #12/31/1950
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Deadline" marks a striking departure in The Spirit, with Jules Feiffer stepping into the spotlight as both writer and artist alongside Will Eisner, whose inks lend a familiar weight to Feiffer’s bold, expressive lines. In a self-aware twist, Feiffer’s character kills Eisner in the story, then shifts to a reflective, Clifford-style recap of the past year’s adventures—offering a rare, meta take on the series’ own legacy.
In a twist that blurs the line between creator and creation, Feiffer, having just killed Eisner, takes up his pen and begins a stark, stylized recap of the past year’s adventures—rendered in the unmistakable voice and form of his backup strip Clifford. As the Spirit, Seymour, and Doggie reappear in this self-referential narrative, the story becomes a haunting meditation on authorship, legacy, and the cost of storytelling.
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Reprinted in The Spirit #28 (1981), Ilustración + Comix Internacional #13 (1981), Feiffer the Collected Works #1 (1988), The Spirit #65 (1990), Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives #21 (2007), Will Eisner's The Spirit: A Celebration of 75 Years #[nn] (2015)
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