Will Eisner at the drawing board
in the '70s.
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| Cover to The Will Eisner Library edition of A Contract With God (2000, DC Comics). |
Seeking a more mature expression
of the comics' form, Eisner spent two years creating four
short stories of "sequential art" that became
A Contract With
God, first published by Baronet Books in 1978.
In this book, with its 1930s Bronx tenements and slice-of-life
moral tales, Eisner returned to his roots and discovered
new potential for the comics form — the graphic novel.
Eisner followed A
Contract With God with a series of graphic
novels published by the alternative comics publisher Kitchen
Sink Press. With subject matter ranging from semi-autobiographical
(The Dreamer
and To
the Heart of the Storm), keen observations
of modern life (The
Building and Invisible
People) and science fiction parable (Life
on Another Planet) Eisner helped to break
comics from the juvenile ghetto of superheroes and "funny
books."
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