| 1. The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue (A Contract With God, A Life Force, Dropsie Avenue) | 
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
November 21, 2005
Eisner, simply put, owns this medium. And this collection of three of his best works, showcases his brilliance. It doesn't matter if you like comics or graphic novels or not (and, in terms of comics, this literature is as far away from the crap so mass produced by mainstream comics than, say, the work of Vonnegut). This is a masterpiece of literature. It examines the mundane realities that constitute... more
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| 2. Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative (Will Eisner Instructional Books) |
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
August 17, 2008
This is the bible on making graphic novels. Will Eisner is the true master of the craft. The guy was a true genius! If you are thinking of writing/drawing a graphic novel, read this book... more
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| 3. Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist (Will Eisner Instructional Books) | 
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
August 17, 2008
If you are interested in comics, film, advertising, web design... anything that uses pictures to tell a story, then read Eisner... more
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| 4. Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist (Will Eisner Instructional Books) | 
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
August 17, 2008
Subtitled "Will Eisner Instructional Book," I have a hard time understanding exactly who this book is aimed at. Beginning artists are given no step-by-step instructions for drawing the complex physical actions contained here. In spite of several pages of depictions of the body's skeletal and muscular systems, more advanced artists are given little indication of how the inner musculature of the body... more
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| 5. Will Eisner's New York: Life in the Big City (Will Eisner Library) |
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
October 17, 2006
As die-hard comics readers know, the annual awards for greatness in comics are called the Eisners for good reason. Will Eisner, the seminal figure in the development of comics, who single-handedly crated the graphic novel genre, does not disappoint in this volume, "New York - Life In the Big City." In it, he draws stories of New York City, which seems historic and current at the same time. He draws... more
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| 6. Invisible People (Will Eisner Library) |
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
December 17, 2007
The genius of graphic books has done it again. With a combination of pictures that genuinely are worth a thousand words and a brilliant dialog, this collection contains the stories of 3 individuals, a spinster librarian, a schlub with miraculous healing powers who can still not make much of his life, and a presser whose mistaken obituary leads to the downfall of what little luck he had. Eisner is... more
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| 7. Life, in Pictures: Autobiographical Stories |
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
October 17, 2007
Will Eisner's LIFE, IN PICTURES: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STORIES collects three of Eisner's full-length graphic novels plus a couple of short stories in one affordable 500-page hardcover. One of three such collections from publisher WW Norton, this volume contains those works most closely associated with Eisner's life, providing insight on old age, his years as a struggling artist during the Great Depression... more
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| 8. The Best of the Spirit | 
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: DC Comics
November 01, 2005
I really enjoyed this collection of Eisner's Spirit comics. I became interested in them during the hype of the now fate-fallen movie by Frank Miller. The collection here provides an excellent introduction to the world of the Spirit. I think viewers will be surprised to find the obtuse morality and self-analysis present in these comics; they are an excellent precursor to the golden age of great graphic... more
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| 9. A Contract with God |
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
December 17, 2006
R. Crumb calls it comix. Jules Feiffer called it junk art. Will Eisner gives it the ugly-sounding title of sequential art. A popular name for it now is graphic fiction. What DOES one call the genre in which Eisner was such a pioneer?
Eisner tells us that his goal in A Contract with God, a book that has become famous for being the "first" graphic novel, was to create an art work in... more
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| 10. New York: The Big City (Will Eisner Library) |
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
December 17, 2007
Eisner's artwork combined with the visual anecdotes and observations he makes in his book make this a truly superior work. It is also a kind of a snapshot of New York as Eisner knew it when he lived there. Not really a graphic novel, as it does not really tell an entire story, it is nonetheless worth the time it takes to read and browse. Would-be artists could learn much from New York... more
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