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A Contract with God by Will Eisner
Category: Judaica | Series: Will Eisner Library
A revolutionary novel, "A Contract With God" re-creates the neighbourhood of Will Eisner's youth through a quartet of interwoven stories. Called "a masterpiece" by R. Crumb, "A Life Force" chronicles not only the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of socialist politics. In "Drop ...Show more
A Contract with God: And Other Tenement Stories by Will Eisner
Category: Fiction
Published in 1978, Will Eisner's revolutionary literary work A Contract With God marked the invention of the modern graphic novel. A mesmerising fictional chronicle of a universal American experience, it inspired a generation of sequential artists. Through a quartet of interwoven stories, A Contract Wit ...Show more
Fagin the Jew by Will Eisner
Category: Judaica
Comics luminary Will Eisner takes on literary giant Charles Dickens, in this fascinating retelling of the life of Oliver Twist's "Fagin"! Imagining Fagin's impoverished childhood in the slums of London and his initiation into the criminal underworld, Eisner's story counters the anti-Semitism of Victoria ...Show more
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative by Will Eisner
Category: Art and Photography
Norton presents here two classic drawing textbooks, revised and enhanced for a new generation. Based on Will Eisner's legendary course at New York's School of Visual Arts, these guides have inspired generations of artists, students, teachers and fans. In "Comics and Sequential Art", Eisner reveals the b ...Show more
Last Day in Vietnam by Will Eisner (Illustrator); Diana Schutz (Editor)
Category: Military
Released to coincide with Will Eisner Week--the annual celebration of Eisner's life and work--Last Day in Vietnam is now available in a handsome new hardcover edition Last Day in Vietnam recounts the artist's own experiences with soldiers engaged not only in the daily hostilities of war but also in larg ...Show more
Life, In Pictures : Autobiographical stories by Will Eisner
Category: Fiction
In "Life, in Pictures" the master of graphic arts presents an intimate and personal perspective on his life as a writer, a professional and an artist. "The Dreamer" and "To the Heart of the Storm" describe Will Eisner's gritty early life and career, while two shorter pieces illuminate the bookends of a ...Show more
PS Magazine: The Best of the Preventive Maintenance Monthly by Will Eisner
Category: Fiction
Will Eisner PS Magazine is the first collection of legendary artist Will Eisner's military instructional booklets which he created for the US Army.
The Contract with God Trilogy : Life on Dropsie Avenue (A Contract with God, A Life Force & Dropsie Avenue) by Will Eisner
Category: Fiction
Booklist (Tuesday , November 15, 2005): Comics veteran Eisner launched a second career with " A Contract with God" (1978), one that eclipsed his pioneering 1940s work featuring the masked crimefighter the Spirit and led the way for the contemporary graphic novel. Two further Depression-era books set on ...Show more
The Plot by Will Eisner
Category: Fiction
In a work more disturbing than fiction, "the father of graphic novels" ("The New York Times") Will Eisner examines the outrageous fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which purports to be the actual blueprint by Jewish leaders to take over the world. Hatched as an anti-Semitic plot by the ...Show more
To the Heart of the Storm by Will Eisner
Category: Graphic Novels
An extraordinary autobiography story from a legend in American comics. A historical novel touching on prejudice, assimilation, and anti-Semitism, this sweeping saga takes us from New York in the eighteenth century to Vienna before World War I, and finally to America during the depression and World War ...Show more
Will Eisner Reader by Will Eisner
Category: Fiction
An extraordinary autobiography story from a legend in American comics. Loosely based on the story of Eisner's wife's family, this epic tale spanning three generations of power and privilege explores wealth, marriage, and jealousy in a sprawling American dynasty.