Now readers can experience the legendary book that launched a unique art form and reaffirmed Will Eisner as one of the great pioneers of American graphic storytelling.
This centennial edition showcases Eisner's singular visual style in new high-resolution scans of his original art, complete with an introduction by Scott McCloud and an illuminating history of Eisner's seminal work. The work consists of four short stories 'A Contract With God', 'The Super', 'The Street Singer', and 'Cookalein' all set in a Bronx tenement in the 1930s, with the last story ('Cookalein') also taking place at a summer getaway for Jews. In his December 2004 introduction to the 2005 reprint of A Contract with God, Will Eisner wrote of the work’s genesis, In 1978, encouraged by the work of the experimental graphic artists Otto Nckel, Franz Masareel and Lynd Ward, who in the 1930s published serious novels told in art without text, I attempted a major work in a similar form (pgs. Hersh's crisis is intertwined with the lives of the other unforgettable denizens of Eisner's iconic Dropsie Avenue, a fictionalized version of the quintessential New York City street where he came of age at the height of the Depression. Frimme Hersh, a devout Jew, questions his relationship with God after the loss of his own beloved child. Eisner's work was a shining example of what comics could be: as inventive, moving, and complex as any literary art form.Įisner considered himself "a graphic witness reporting on life, death, heartbreak, and the never-ending struggle to prevail." A Contract with God begins with a gripping tale that mirrors the artist's real-life tragedy, the death of his daughter. It was unlike anything seen before, heralding an era when serious cartoonists were liberated from the limiting confines of the comic strip. In the 1940s, he pushed the boundaries of the medium with his acclaimed weekly comic strip The Spirit, and with the publication of A Contract with God in 1978, he created a new medium altogether: the graphic novel.
Will Eisner was present at the dawn of comics. The revolutionary work of graphic storytelling that inspired a new art form.
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