Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel

418 Pages·2015·24.17 MB·English

by  Levitz

Detail, original art for the front cover of New York: The Big City, Kitchen Sink Press, 1986.
Detail, splash page from “Self Portrait,” The Spirit no. 101, May 3, 1942.
Above and this page: Will Eisner in his studio in Tamarac, Florida, May 2001, photographed by Greg
Preston for his book, The Artist Within: Portraits of Cartoonists, Comic Book Artists, Animators, and
Others, Dark Horse Books, 2007.

Detail, original art for the cover of A Contract With God, Kitchen Sink Press, 1985.
Detail, A Contract With God, 1978.
FOR ME, THIS IS A NEW PATH IN THE FOREST.
—WILL EISNER, preface to A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories
Detail, original art for an interior page of New York: The Big City, 1986.
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
BY BRAD MELTZER
PREFACE
BY PAUL LEVITZ
CHAPTER ONE
OVERTURE
CHAPTER TWO
THE SPIRIT RISING
CHAPTER THREE
THE SPIRIT UNBOUND
CHAPTER FOUR
STORYTELLING BUSINESS
CHAPTER FIVE
RECONNECTING
CHAPTER SIX
TEACH THE WORLD
CHAPTER SEVEN
GRAPHIC NOVELS ARE COMING!
CHAPTER EIGHT
AN INSPIRING CONTRACT