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Explore the life of Will Eisner, one of the most influential artists in the history of comics through the most appropriate medium: a graphic novel! From his immigrant roots and childhood in New York, starting his own comics studio and business, and the creation and publication of his beloved comic,…
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Will Eisner is recognized as one of the most influential and respected artists in comics. (The medium’s most prestigious award is named after him.) Eisner essentially gave graphic novels their name and 20th-century respectability, demonstrating how atmospheric art and design could bring close-to-the-bone storytelling to life. Appropriately, this biography is itself a graphic novel showing Eisner’s life and career, from the dynamic 1940 Sunday newspaper strip “The Spirit” leading into the 1978 groundbreaking tenement tales of A Contract with God. In the hands of the authors, Eisner becomes the character star in his own medium.
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