A Contract with God: And Other Tenement Stories (The Will Eisner Library) - Hardcover

Will Eisner; Scott Mccloud

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393609189 ISBN 13: 9780393609189

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017

Synopsis

"He was a teacher and an innovator. He started out so far ahead of the game that it took the rest of the world literally 60 years to catch up." Neil Gaiman, The Guardian

Published quietly in 1978, Will Eisner's revolutionary literary work A Contract With God marked the invention of the modern graphic novel. A mesmerizing fictional chronicle of a universal American experience, it inspired a generation of sequential artists. Through a quartet of four interwoven stories, A Contract With God expresses the joy, exuberance, tragedy, and drama of life on the mythical Dropsie Avenue in the Bronx. This edition uses all-new, high-resolution reproductions of Eisner's original artwork, bringing new clarity and immediacy to Eisner's writing, illustration, and composition. Crafted with the highest fidelity to Eisner's artistic vision, the volume offers a beautiful, collectible way to experience the legendary book that launched a new art form and established Eisner as one of the great pioneers of American graphics.

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Review:

"Unlike any other comic book artist of his time, he created mood, atmosphere, and a sense of reality." --Jule Feiffer

"Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him." --John Updike

"Harrowingly magnificent." --Kurt Vonnegut

About the Author:

Born in New York City, Will Eisner (1917-2005) created The Spirit as well as fifteen graphic novels and three influential drawing textbooks. The comic industry's top awards, the Eisner Awards, are named in his honor.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0393609189
• ISBN 13: 9780393609189
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224