Will Eisner was present at the dawn of comics. In the 1940s, he pushed the boundaries of the medium with his acclaimed weekly comic strip The Spirit , and with the publication of A Contract with God in 1978, he created a new medium altogether: the graphic...
In this classic graphic novel, Will Eisner's pen cuts an expansive swath through all aspects of the human condition. A Family Matter starts close to home, following a family as it gathers to observe the ninetieth birthday of its patriarch. While they...
A roman à clef about Eisner's early years in the thriving comics industry prior to World War IIâfeaturing new annotations that reveal comics pioneers such as Bob Kane and Jack Kirby who appear under pseudonyms.
A collection of short stories, including 'A Sunset in Sunshine City' - an ode to memory and nostalgia inspired by the author's transition to life in Florida after his 'retirement' in 1985.
" Comics and Sequential Art is a masterwork, the distillation of Will Eisner's genius to a clear and potent elixir."âMichael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
With an unparalleled eye for stories and expressive illustration, Will Eisner, the master and pioneer of American comics art, presents one of his renowned celebrations of the Big Apple. No illustrator evoked the melancholy duskiness of New York City as...
Invisible People tells the story of three ordinary individuals adrift in the city. The characters who inhabit these tales each value their privacy; their lives are lived alone, without engaging with the outside world. And yet each reaches a turning point,...
Before the Lower East Side was cool, there was the grit and grime of Avenue C, a world filled with street musicians, overflowing sewers, and peeping toms, all recalled in Eisnerâs unforgettable style.
The late Will Eisner, the great American master of comics, regarded this, his last work, as his most powerful. This nonfiction book in graphic-novel style examines the outrageous fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which purports to be...
As the dramas unfold in A Contract With God, the first book in this new trilogy, it is at 55 Dropsie Avenue where Frimme Hersh, the pious Jew, first loses his beloved daughter, then breaks his contract with his maker, and ends up as a slumlord ; it is...
In Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood , Eisner graphically traces the social trajectory of this mythic avenue over four centuries, creating a sweeping panorama of the city and its waves of new residents, whose stories present an unending "story of life,...
Presents graphic fiction's greatest celebration of the Big Apple. This work presents a quartet of graphic works and includes cameo appearances by the author himself; and several illustrations.
Published quietly in 1978, Will Eisner's revolutionary literary work A Contract With God marked the invention of the modern graphic novel, took on a life of its own, and inspired a generation of "sequential artists."