From 1986 until 2006 (when the strip went into reruns), he wrote and drew The Katzenjammer Kids. An interview with Eisman on his career appeared in Hogan's Alley #15 (2007).[1]
From 1994 until 2022, he wrote and drew the Sunday strips for Popeye.[3] In December 2008, Eisman re-introduced the character of Bluto to the Popeye Sunday strips, as the twin brother of Brutus.
He has two daughters by his first marriage. Nathalie Adrienne "Adri" Abramson,[2] his wife of 42 years, died of cancer in the fall of 1997. On June 27, 2004, he married Florenz Greenberg, whose husband had also died in 1997. She was the managing editor at CavanKerry Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary works in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Their wedding invitation was a comic strip with Popeye and Olive Oyl.[4] Florenz Greenberg died on October 20, 2013, in Glen Rock.
Awards
Eisman won the 1975 National Cartoonists Society's Award for Best Humor Comic Book Cartoonist (for Gold Key's Nancy comic books). In 1983, he received a National Cartoonists Society Award for his work on the Little Lulu comic book.[5]
