You'd hardly expect comics books to spotlight writers of great literature, but as they've said somewhere or other,
comics: they're not just for kids anymore! That's why we gather together on this here blog to celebrate today's birthday of
William Butler Yeats, the great Irish writer of drama, poetry, fiction, and essays:
At the Hawk's Well, The Land of Heart's Desire, "The Second Coming," "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven," Long-Legged Fly," "Sailing to Byzantium," "Easter 1916," and more.
No, he didn't
star in superhero comics (if you ignore Marvel's
The Redoubtable Yeats miniseriesl), but he did get quoted in a few, sometimes by the most unlikely of characters:
from "The Return of the Defenders Part 4: Hot Spell" in Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme Annual (1922 series) #2 (Marvel, 1992), script by Roy Thomas, pencils by M. C. Wyman, inks by E. R. Cruz, colors by Kevin Tinsley, letters by Michael Higgins
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