Best Selling Books by Will Eisner

The latest volume in the popular Archive series collecting the completeappearances of Will Eisner''s The Spirit reprints the newspaper Spirit Sectionsfrom January 4 to June 28, 1942

Will Eisner is a master of the comics medium, and when he got together to chat with other masters of the medium, what came of it was a collection of information vital to everyone working in the industry, and indispensable to anyone looking to get into it. Featuring interviews with Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Gil Kane, Joe Kubert, Jack Davis, Neal Adams, C.C. Beck, Milton Caniff, Gill Fox, Harvey Kurtzman, and distribution guru Phil Seuling, Will Eisner''s Shop Talk is chock full of golden tidbits of comics knowledge.

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." Will Eisner (1917–2005) saw himself as "a graphic witness reporting on life, death, heartbreak, and the never-ending struggle to prevail." The publication of A Contract With God when Eisner was sixty-one proved to be a watershed moment both for him and for comic literature. It marked the birth of the modern graphic novel and the beginning of an era when serious cartoonists could be liberated from their stultifying comic-book format. More than a quarter-century after the initial publication of A Contract With God, and in the last few months of his life, Eisner chose to combine the three fictional works he had set on Dropsie Avenue, the mythical street of his youth in Depression-era New York City. 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 on Dropsie Avenue where a street singer, befriended by an aging diva, is so beholden to the bottle that he fails to grasp his chance for stardom; and it is there that a scheming little girl named Rosie poisons a depraved super’s dog before doing in the super as well. In the second book, A Life Force, declared by R. Crumb to be "a masterpiece," Eisner re-creates himself in his protagonist, Jacob Shtarkah, whose existential search reflected Eisner’s own lifelong struggle. Chronicling not only the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of left-wing politics, Eisner combined the miniaturist sensibility of Henry Roth with the grand social themes of novelists such as Dos Passos and Steinbeck. Finally, 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—the Dutch, English, Irish, Jews, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans—whose faces changed yet whose lives presented an unending "story of life, death, and resurrection." The Contract With God Trilogy is a mesmerizing, fictional chronicle of a universal American experience and Eisner’'' most poignant and enduring literary legacy.

Thrill to the exciting adventures of wartime hero Blackhawk and hismultinational squad of freedom fighters. This special hardcover collectionreprints the Blackhawk stories from MILITARY COMICS #1-17. Included: A map ofBlackhawk island!

Too Much Coffee Man has been applauded by both the Washington Post and Wired Magazine. Fill your cup with dark satire, and drink deep from these thoughtful, award-winning comics. Witness TMCM''s secret origin! Experience the anxiety of the author as he claws his way to the top!! And revel in Too Much Coffee Man''s wisdom. This book collects through issue #8 of the original Too Much Coffee Man comic books, along with some new material. All the cliffhangers are resolved. All the plot threads are tied up. And all the jokes have punch lines.

Classic Will Eisner crime, collected for the first time! In 1948, Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit, produced three masterful tales of crime and corruption featuring his eye-patch wearing cop, John Law. Read those classic, lovingly remastered tales, as well as the award-winning re-imagining of Crossroads, home of Law, Lady Luck, Mr. Mystic and Nubbin the Shoe Shine Boy. This special 20th anniversary edition also features a brand new story by Gary Chaloner, hand-picked by Eisner to continue the crime-fighting legacy of John Law, Detective!

Golden-Age superhero, the Escapist--master of elusion, champion of liberation--was conceived in the fictional world of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. This comic book anthology contains a variety of the Escapist''s exploits, and details on the history of the character. Master of elusion and foe of tyranny, from his secret headquarters beneath the majestic Empire Theater, the Escapist and his associates have been defeating the crooked and coming to the aid of those in need for generations. From obstructing the endeavors of post-war Nazis, to protecting the innocent from an attack on the World''s Fair, to infiltrating behind enemy lines to free prisoners of war in Vietnam, and even to stymieing a hypnotizing saxophone player, the Escapist does not suffer oppression of any kind. A multitude of the Escapist''s pulse-pounding adventures are collected here along with details of the publishing history of Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay''s creation. This volume also contains a story torn straight from the pages of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: written by Michael Chabon, the tale of the mysterious Mr. Machine Gun. Also featured, from another Kavalier & Clay classic publication, Weird Date, are two stories of romance, crime, and mystery. This collection features comic book creators of legend, including Will Eisner (The Spirit), Eduardo Barreto (Batman), Jeffrey Brown (Star Wars: Darth Vader and Son), Howard Chaykin (American Flagg, Star Wars), Paul Gulacy (Master of Kung Fu), Jeff Parker (Bucko), Marv Wolfman (The Tomb of Dracula), Thomas Yeates (Prince Valiant), and so many more! Containing a total of twenty-two tales, along with three never-before-collected stories, this volume also contains five never-before-published stories, as well as a robust gallery of pinups celebrating the world of the Escapist from artists including Gabriel Bá (The Umbrella Academy, Casanova) Brian Bolland (Judge Dredd), Bill Morrison (The Simpsons), Fábio Moon (Serenity, Casanova), Tim Sale (Batman, Superman), and many more!

Will Eisner utilizes the demolition of an tenement building as a stage for four ghosts to revisit their lives and examine missed opportunities. In this paperback, the reader experiences the remorse of a samaritan who never pays his debt to society, the regret of a woman who allowed love to pass her by, the frustration of a musician who never attained his dreams and the obsession of a businessman who becomes emotionally attached to the corner building.

For most of the 20th century, the work of cartoonist and graphic novelist Will Eisner defined the art of comic book storytelling in the U.S. and throughout the world. Still prolific today at the age of 86, Eisner is the embodiment of "living legend" in the world of comic books, continuing to produce some of the most innovative and influential work in the medium. This all-new hardcover collection of Eisner''s gorgeous pencil sketches and groundbreaking designs is a must-have for pop-culture enthusiasts and fans of comic books. Culled from many decades'' worth of work, the Sketchbook presents the world as seen through Will Eisner''s eyes, with introductory notes for each of the eleven different sections. From his observations of his friends and loved ones hustling through their busy daily lives to witnessing those quiet moments when no one is supposed to be watching, Eisner''s keen perception and steadfast hand capture the essence of what it means to be alive.

With an unparalleled eye for stories and expressive illustration, Will Eisner, the master and pioneer of American comics art, presents graphic fiction''s greatest celebration of the Big Apple. No illustrator evoked the melancholy duskiness of New York City as expressively as Eisner, who knew the city from the bottom up. This new hardcover presents a quartet of graphic works ("New York, The Building, City People Notebook," and "Invisible People") and features what Neil Gaiman describes as "tales as brutal, as uncaring as the city itself." From ancient buildings "barnacled with laughter and stained with tears" to the subways, "humorless iron reptiles, clacking stupidly on a webbing of graceful steel rails," "Will Eisner''s New York" includes cameo appearances by the author himself; several new illustrations sketched by Eisner, posthumously inked by Peter Poplaski; and three previously unpublished "out-takes" a treasure for any Eisner fan, and sure to become a collectible. Introduction by Neil Gaiman.

A black-and-white graphic novel chronicle of the rise, decline, and rebirth of a neighborhood in the South Bronx over the course of more than one hundred years.

Born in 1917, Eisner was one of the greatest pioneers of 20th-cent. graphic art. ¿The Plot¿ was his first book of graphic history. The ¿Protocol¿ supposedly contains the ¿Jewish plan¿ for conquering the world. That this fake, as Umberto Eco explains in his Intro., ¿was produced by a number of secret services and police of 3 countries assembled from a collage of different texts, is by now a well-known fact -- and Will Eisner tells it in full.¿ Eisner explains that ¿For me, `The Plot¿ marks an effort to employ this powerful medium to address a matter of immense personal concern,¿ as his parents were Jewish-Amer. immigrants and he himself experienced prejudice against Jews. ¿I became interested in the devices that anti-Semites used to promote their message.¿

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