Artist draws new `Spirit' from classic

KRT Wire - Fortwayne.com: Artist draws new `Spirit' from classic: "Darwyn Cooke has some mighty big shoes to fill - and he knows it.

Cooke is the writer-artist for 'The Spirit,' a new monthly comic from DC featuring Will Eisner's classic crime fighter.

Eisner, a giant in the comic-book industry, died in early 2005. The Spirit, his most famous creation, starred in a comic-book insert in Sunday newspapers in the 1940s and early `50s, with numerous publishers reprinting his adventures since then.

Before his death, Eisner signed off on the idea of a new Spirit series. DC approached Cooke not long after.

'I was really pretty flattered - and pretty scared - that they had thought of me for it,' he says."

This looks good, picked it up yesterday.