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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: Poorhouse Press
1990
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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| 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. 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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| 4. 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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| 5. 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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| 6. Invisible People |
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
1993-06
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. The Building |
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
1988-01
Will Eisner left us some real gems. This is one of them. When I was a kid, cartoons were not welcome in our home. It just took a whole generation to understand that Eisner's work - and the works of his likes - is simply art. Graphic novel isn't just a gimmick, it's real literature.
I just have one regret, about the quality of the paper. This book will simply turn into dust within a decade. So... more
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| 8. The Dreamer: A Graphic Novella Set During the Dawn of Comic Books |
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: DC Comics
June 01, 2000
Will Eisner, creator of the Graphic Novel, shows why he remains unchallenged in his field... more
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| 9. The Will Eisner Sketchbook - New Edition |
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By: Will Eisner
By: Will Eisner
Publisher: Dark Horse
February 04, 2004
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3FPKKU1XM13CL The Will Eisner Sketchbook is positively amazing! I'm saying that because I read his comics and do a bit of cartooning myself.
The book is a clothed hardcover, perfect bind with 200 pages. The paper is thick and mildly yellow.
On these pages are the best reproduction of pencil drawings I've even seen. As I rub... more
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| 10. New York: The Big City | 
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: DC Comics
August 01, 2000
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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