Variety reports that Creative Artists Agency has picked up as a client the estate of Will Eisner, with plans to package his creations for film, television and other media.
Eisner’s best-known creation, The Spirit, is being adapted as a movie by Frank Miller for release on Jan. 16, 2009.
Eisner, who died in 2005 at age 87, left an extensive, and influential, body of work, including A Contract With God, and Other Tenement Stories, The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and John Law.
The Variety article mentions Blackhawk, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, and Uncle Sam as among Eisner’s creations. However, those properties aren’t owned by the Eisner estate.
