![]() ![]() ![]() it is a longform comic for more mature readers. The book is not written for kids seeking the next superhero battle. He was over sixty when he published A Contract with God. Army - he never retired from comics and always believed in the potential of the medium. ![]() Even when he worked outside the business as an illustrator - for instance for the U.S. In the 1940s, he revolutionized visual storytelling with his own take on the superhero genre, The Spirit, using film techniques in his sequential art narratives. The book, originally published in 1978, is widely considered to be the first graphic novel and should be included in any comic book collection.Įisner was one of the comic book pioneers, working in the medium before the boom that occurred with the introduction of Superman. To mark the 100th birthday of Will Eisner this year, Norton published a centennial edition of his milestone book, A Contract with God: And Other Tenement Stories. ![]()
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