The Best of the Spirit
by Will Eisner
from DC Comics
The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue (A Contract With God, A Life Force, Dropsie Avenue)
by Will Eisner
from W. W. Norton
The legendary graphic novel and the sequels that launched an art form.
With graphic narrative that "was closer to the writing of Bernard Malamud or Isaac Bashevis Singer than any comic art which had preceded it" (The Economist), A Contract with God, originally published in 1978, was the first graphic novel: the prototype—along with A Life Force and Dropsie Avenue—for such seminal works as Maus and Persepolis. Set during the Great Depression, this literary trilogy, assembled in one volume for the first time, presents a treasure house of now near-mythic stories that fictionally illustrate the bittersweet tenement life of Eisner's youth. With nearly one dozen new illustrations and a revealing brand-new foreword, this book ultimately tells the epic story of life, death, and resurrection while exploring man's fractious relationship with an all-too-vengeful God. This mesmerizing, fictional chronicle of the universal American immigrant experience is Eisner's most poignant and enduring legacy.
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative
by Will Eisner
from W. W. Norton
A classic drawing textbook from an American comics pioneer, revised and enhanced for a new generation.
Based on Will Eisner's legendary course at New York's School of Visual Arts, this guide has inspired generations of artists, students, teachers, and fans. Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative teaches how to control a story effectively using a broad array of techniques. With examples from Eisner's own catalog and such masters as H. Foster, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Milton Caniff, Al Capp, and George Herriman, this book distills the art of graphic storytelling into principles that every comic artist, writer, and filmmaker should know. 2-color art and text.
Spirit, The: Archives, Volume 24 (Spirit Archives (Graphic Novels))
by Will Eisner
from DC Comics
Criminologist Denny Colt let the world believe he was dead in order to continue his war against crime as the masked vigilante known only as The Spirit.Through his career, he fought some of the worlds deadliest villains with nothing more than his wits, his fists and his tongue planted firmly in his cheek. The blue-suited, fedora-wearing crimefighter created by Will Eisner starred in hundreds of newspaper adventure stories that thrilled readers, and Eisners groundbreaking style utilized the comics format to its greatest strengths. The final installments of Eisners weekly Spirit stories reaches its conclusion in this volume of adventures from the early 1950s, including the lushly illustrated series that took The Spirit from Central City to the surface of the moon.
Comics and Sequential Art
by Will Eisner
from W. W. Norton
Based on the popular course Eisner taught for several years at New York's School of Visual Arts, this lovingly written book on visual storytelling contains an accumulation of his ideas, theories and advice on the practice of graphic story-telling and the uses to which the comic book art form can be applied. Whether you're a film student, literature student, artist or simply a fan of good storytelling, you'll love this book filled with Eisner's cartoons.
A classic drawing textbook from an American comics pioneer, revised and enhanced for a new generation.
Based on Will Eisner's legendary course at New York's School of Visual Arts, this guide has inspired generations of artists, students, teachers, and fans. In Comics and Sequential Art, Eisner reveals the basic building blocks and principles of comics, including imagery, the frame, and the application of time, space, and visual forms. With examples from Eisner's own catalog and such masters as H. Foster, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Milton Caniff, Al Capp, and George Herriman, this book distills the art of graphic storytelling into principles that every comic artist, writer, and filmmaker should know. 2-color art and text.
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 1: June 2 - December 29, 1940
by Will Eisner
from DC Comics
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 2: January 5 - June 29, 1941
by Will Eisner
from DC Comics
This full-color second volume of the Spirit Archives continuesto tell the legend of young criminologist Denny Colt, who, after beingpresumed dead, returns to life to fight crime as the enigmatic costumedcrimefighter, the Spirit. Collecting the original Sunday newspaper stripsfrom January 5 to June 29, 1941, this hardcover edition contains the firstappearance of Silk Satin and new tales about Denny Colt, CommissionerDolan, and his daughter Ellen.
Eisner/Miller
by Will Eisner
from Dark Horse
It would be hard to imagine any creators who have more greatly affected their chosen medium than Will Eisner and Frank Miller have influenced the world of comics and graphic novels. Often misunderstood, but enduringly enjoyed by people from all walks of life, the comic book has in recent years been recognized as a "legitimate" art form by cultural institutions ranging from Harvard University to the Smithsonian, from The New Yorker to the Art Institute of Chicago. Now, culture-curious readers and life-long fans of the comics medium are invited to read along as two of the medium's greatest contributors-legendary innovator and godfather of sequential art Will Eisner, and the modern master of cinematic comics storytelling, Frank Miller-discuss one on one in an intimate interview format, the ins-and-outs of this compelling and often controversial art form. Eisner/Miller is profusely illustrated and features rare, behind-the-scenes photos of Eisner, Miller, and other notable creators.
Spirit Archives Vol. 26 (Spirit Archives (Graphic Novels))
from DC Comics
A Contract With God
by Will Eisner
from W. W. Norton
Four powerful dramas recall tenement life in 1930s New York--an absolute must for fans of Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth,and Isaac Singer. The storytelling is straightforward: sometimes heart warming, sometimes heart breaking. It's printed in a single sepia-colored ink, which adds to the nostalgic feel of the book and includes "A Contract with God," "The Street Singer," "The Supper," and "Cookalein."
"Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him."—John Updike
A revolutionary novel, A Contract With God re-creates the neighborhood of Will Eisner's youth through a quartet of four interwoven stories. Expressing the joy, exuberance, tragedy, and drama of life on the mythical Dropsie Avenue of the Bronx, A Contract With God is a monumental achievement, a must in the library of any graphic novel fan.
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