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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
1985-09
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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| 2. 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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| 3. 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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| 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. To the Heart of the Storm |
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
1991
Eisner presents broad, varied, and highly personal view of the American Jewish experience. It has to be varied since there is no one experience. Each differs from all the others, and each contains many parts at odds with each other.
This time, Eisner starts his story on a troop train, one leg of the trip towards the storm of WWII. One character sits silently, gazing out the window. Although... more
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| 7. Will Eisner's New York: Life in the Big City: New York, The Building, City People Notebook, Invisible People (Will Eisner Library) |
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: W. W. Norton
October 16, 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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| 8. The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion |
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By: Will Eisner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
May 17, 2006
Since no human beeing could have possibly come up with this monstrous plan contained in "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion", only one answer is left to expose the mysterious authorship for these ideas. Only Satan himself would qualify for such monstrous "PROTOCOLS" to enslave all humanity and rob mankind of their Agency. Machiavelli would certainly be a qualifying mouthpiece to convey... more
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| 9. Michael Chabon Presents...The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist Volume 3 (Amazing Adventures of the Escapist (Graphic Novels)) | 
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By: Will Eisner, Eddie Campbell, Chris Offutt, Howard Chaykin, Thomas Yeates
By: Will Eisner, Eddie Campbell, Howard Chaykin
Publisher: Dark Horse
May 10, 2006
I have just loved the books he has written and so I found myself buying everything with his name on it. These are fun to look at... more
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| 10. 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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