A Contract with God, (Paperback)

from DarthDeverell

In his December 2004 introduction to the 2005 reprint of A Contract with God, Will Eisner wrote of the work's genesis, “In 1978, encouraged by the work of the experimental graphic artists Otto Nückel, Franz Masareel and Lynd Ward, who in the 1930s published serious novels told in art without text...

from Inconspicuous

Just a great book. Will Eisner, as always, is amazing here, his expressive characters, use of complex themes...he is truly one of the most important people in the graphic storytelling field. What's also amazing, though, is that it has nothing to do with superheroes or any of that jazz and yet as ...

from Saretta.L

Raccolta di quattro storie ambientate nella New York degli anni '30, ai tempi della grande depressione.Tutte le storie hanno come protagonisti i personaggi di un quartiere, e abbiamo così il Super, il responsabile del palazzo, i cantanti dei vicoli e il tempo delle vacanza per sfuggire alla città...

from jasonlf

A powerfully written, powerfully drawn collections of stories set on the mythic "Dropsie Avenue," a Bronx street of Jewish tenements in the 1930s. It has all the sentimental cliches about Jewish immigrants in the Bronx. But this novel, which makes the reasonable claim to be the first graphic nove...

from samfsmith

Picked this up after reading "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay", which was loosely inspired by the life of Will Eisner. I haven't read a comic book - sorry, "graphic novel", in over 40 years. It was surprisingly good, a collection of three stories about life in the tenements in New Yor...