Two of the seven stories in this collection (culled from Will Eisner's Quarterly magazine) show a side of Eisner little seen since The Spirit , his Sunday supplement in the 1940s and 1950s: his sense of humor. ``The Telephone'' is an amusing collecti...
In a career that spanned nearly eight decades - from the dawn of the comic book to the advent of digital comics - Will Eisner was truly the 'Father of the Graphic Novel'. This book is a collection of heartfelt holiday stories....
This powerful graphic novel confirms Will Eisner as a master of the genre.
In this graphic novel, Will Eisner’s pen cuts an expansive swath through all aspects of the human condition. Life on Another Planet places American life within a broa...For most of the 20th century, the work of cartoonist and graphic novelist Will Eisner defined the art of comic book storytelling in the U.S. and throughout the world. This hardcover collection of Eisner's gorgeous pencil sketches and groundbreaking d...
An extraordinary autobiography story from a legend in American comics.
A historical novel touching on prejudice, assimilation, and anti-Semitism, this sweeping saga takes us from New York in the eighteenth century to ...
Portrays the metamorphosis of a South Bronx neighborhood as it undergoes a transformation from a rural to an urban environment, and experiences waves of new immigrants moving into and out of the area, from colonial times to the present....
A meticulously reconstructed hardcover collection of the rollicking stories from the weekly newspaper
“Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him.”—John Updike
Called “a masterpiece” by R. Crumb, A Life Force chronicles not only the Great Depression but also the ris...
Four extraordinary autobiographical stories from a legend in American comics.
Loosely based on the story of Eisner''s wife''s family, this epic tale spanning three generations of power and privilege explores wealth, marriage, and jealousy...
Chaos! Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Image Comics -- with assistance from Oni Press, Top Shelf Productions, and others present a collection of stories and illustrations from an incredibly diverse array of talented writers and artists. The New Yorker's E...
In the sixth installment of this hardcover collection of the Spirit Sunday strips, Will Eisner's gifted assistants carry on weaving tales of the masked adventurer feared by criminals of all stripes. With America's involvement in World War II intensif...
In 1936, a 20-year-old artist using the name Willis B. Rensie jump-started the comic-book medium. Writing and illustrating an action-packed weekly serial called Hawks of the Seas-a pirate adventure series set in the 18th-century Caribbean-the artist ...
After the Princess & the Frog, comics great Will Eisner continues his series of adaptations of classic tales with this charming and delightfully humorful rendition of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Quixote was quite a gentleman, man of honor ...
It would be hard to imagine any creators who have more greatly affected their chosen medium than Will Eisner and Frank Miller have influenced the world of comics and graphic novels. Often misunderstood, but enduringly enjoyed by people from all walks...
Published quietly in 1978, Will Eisner's revolutionary literary work A Contract With God marked the invention of the modern graphic novel, took on a life of its own, and inspired a generation of "sequential artists."
Will Eisner (1917"2005) ...The first graphic novel -- a mesmerizing fictional chronicle of a universal American experience. Through a quartet of four interwoven stories, A Contract With God express the joy, exuberance, tragedy, and drama of life on the mythical Dropsie Avenue ...
“Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him.”―John Updike
In Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood, Eisner graphically traces the social trajectory of this mythic avenue over four centuries, creatin...Collects the weekly adventures of a young criminologist named Denny Colt, who survived death to continue his fight against crime as The Spirit. Originally published between January 1, 1951 and June 24, 1951....
An intimate self-portrait of the American icon Will Eisner, and a chronicle of the career that launched a new art form.
In what will be the closest thing Eisner fans will see to an autobiography, the great master and pioneer of American graphi...One of four extraordinary graphic novels celebrating the Big Apple, from the master of American comics art.
A haunting trio of stories about life’s forgotten shut-ins in the tradition of Kafka, Gogol, and Melville....One of four extraordinary graphic novels celebrating the Big Apple, from the master of American comics art.
Before the Lower East Side was cool, there was the grit and grime of Avenue C, a world filled with street musicians, overflowing sewers...Swing into the Golden Age of comics with this spectacular collection of classic Sheena: Queen of the Jungle! Featuring digitally-remastered, vintage artwork by Will Eisner/Jerry Iger studios and over 10 of the best Sheena stories from the 1930s, 40s,...
"Comics and Sequential Art is a masterwork, the distillation of Will Eisner's genius to a clear and potent elixir."―Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
Will Eisner is one of the twentie..."There isn't a comics artists alive who hasn't benefited from Will Eisner's masterful work and formidable wisdom."―Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics
In Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative, Will Eisner―one of the most infl...On the dead body of a police officer the Spirit discovers a note with the name 'Sand Saref,' his lost childhood sweetheart. Saref has come to Central City peddling a deadly Nazi virus on the black market, but plans go awry when she is double-crossed ...
An extraordinary autobiography story from a legend in American comics.
A roman a clef about Eisner's early years in the thriving comics industry prior to World War II―featuring new annotations that reveal comics pioneers such as Bob Kane and...Created by comics legend Will Eisner, the blue-suited crimefighter known as The Spirit starred in hundreds of newspaper adventure stories that thrilled readers, and Eisner’s groundbreaking style utilized the comics format to its greatest strengths....
Four extraordinary autobiographical stories from a legend in American comics.
A collection of brilliant short-story gems, including "A Sunset in Sunshine City"―an ode to memory and nostalgia inspired by Eisner's transition to life in Florida...Continuing DDP's reprints of the classic Golden Age Sheena: Queen of the Jungle!Featuring classic comics from the '30s, '40s, and '50s, this second volume features stories from the Will Eisner/Jerry Iger studios, as well as an essay and annotatio...
The very last SPIRIT ARCHIVES volume brings this award-winning series to a spectacular end! This amazing collection features nearly impossible-to-find post-1952 Spirit material by legendary creator Will Eisner including stories originally published b...
This powerful graphic novel confirms Will Eisner as a master of the genre.
In this classic graphic novel, Will Eisner’s pen cuts an expansive swath through all aspects of the human condition. A powerful portrayal of Jewish life in the New Yo...Reprinting Spirit sections from July 1, 1945 to December 30, 1945! In late 1945 Will Eisner received his honorable discharge from the U.S. Army, and in December of that year he returned to his masterwork -- The Spirit! ...
It's the comics master at his best! Volume 15 reprints The Spirit newspaper sections published from July 6, 1947 to December 28, 1947, featuring the seductive P'Gell, The Octopus, a send up of Li'l Abner, and more, plus an introduction by N.C. Christ...
Another volume of peak-period story-telling by the master! Volume 17 includes the classic "The Story of Gerhard Shnobble," Eisner's unique take on two stories by Poe and Bierce, and more. Reprinting Spirit sections from 7/4/48 - 12/26/48. ...
Reprinting Spirit sections from January 2 to June 26, 1949, Will Eisner's masterwork continues through one of its greatest periods in THE SPIRIT ARCHIVES VOL. 18, featuring the classic stories "Thorne Strand and the Spirit," "Visitor" and "Satin" as ...
Reprinting the Spirit sections from July 3 to December 25, 1949, Will Eisner's masterwork continues through one of its greatest periods in THE SPIRIT ARCHIVES VOL. 19, featuring the classic stories 'Ye Olde Spirit of '76,' 'Death of Autumn Mews' and ...
Will Eisner's masterwork continues through one of its greatest periods in The Spirit Archives Vol. 21, collecting Spirit sections from July 2 to December 31, 1950, and featuring such classic stories as "The Moment of Glory," "The Wreck of Old 78" and...
Will Eisner's masterwork continues through one of its greatest periods in WILL EISNER'S THE SPIRIT ARCHIVES VOL. 22, collecting the Spirit Sections from January though June 1951 and featuring such classic stories as 'Death is my Destiny,' 'The Octopu...
Criminologist Denny Colt let the world believe he was dead in order to continue his war against crime as the masked vigilante known only as The Spirit. Through his career, he fought some of the world's deadliest villains with nothing more than his wi...
Released to coincide with Will Eisner Week -- the annual celebration of Eisner’s life and work -- Last Day in Vietnam is now available in a handsome new hardcover edition! Last Day in Vietnam recounts the artist’s own experiences with soldiers...
Comics luminary Will Eisner takes on literary giant Charles Dickens, in this fascinating retelling of the life of Oliver Twist’s Fagin! Imagining Fagin’s impoverished childhood in the slums of London and his initiation into the criminal underworl...
Universally celebrated as one of comics’ most influential creators, Will Eisner broke new ground with nearly every project he undertook during his long and extraordinary career. But no creation was more ambitious, innovative, or ahead of its time t...
Unearthed as part of a massive collection of pre-WWII newspaper printing plates, the mid-1930s comic strips UNCLE OTTO and HARRY KARRY represent the earliest known cartooning of the great comics and sequential art pioneer Will Eisner. In these strips...
The legacy that Will Eisner (1917"2005) had on sequential art cannot be overstated -- his innovative storytelling, layouts, and art on his newspaper series The Spirit inspired a generation of cartoonists, and his turn toward an acclaimed run of gra...
Will Eisner's A Contract with God--one of the most influential graphic novels of all time--reproduced at 1:1 size from the original art! This deluxe slipcase, two-volume hardcover set contains full-size, full-color reproductions of Eisner's unpublish...
Released to coincide with Will Eisner Week -- the annual celebration of Eisner’s life and work -- Last Day in Vietnam is now available in a handsome new hardcover edition!Last Day in Vietnam recounts the artist’s own experiences with soldiers eng...
Celebrate the 80th Anniversary of Will Eisner’s The Spirit with this all-new collection from Clover. Acknowledged by everyone from Alan Moore to Michael Chabon as one the of the most important comic book creators of all time, this collection featur...
The greatest heroes of the golden age of comics are turning 80! This volume focuses on the early days of patriotic super-heroes, including the first patriotic super-hero, The Shield, Will Eisner's Uncle Sam, the Eagle, Spy Smasher and more! Plus:...
A premium collection demonstrating the effectiveness of the comics medium for telling the most personal of stories--the autobiography.Showcasing some of the first published autobiographical stories from living-legend artists, mainstream greats, and y...
“An essential introductory collection to comics’ most essential figure. Weaving together the works that helped assure comics’ status as a literary medium, the anthology combines Eisner’s slice-of-life masterpieces with an inci...
Will Eisner’s work on The Spirit was, in its way, as groundbreaking as Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane. Both artistic achievements rewrote the book on sequential storytelling and had lasting impacts on all that followed them.Featured within th...
Wherever men live, be they nomads or city dwellers, there they must have law and a man to enforce it. Meet Detective John Law of Crossroads City. Strong, decent, hardworking and hard-nosed. He’s a man who believes in the law and order. He&rsquo...
GRAVE CONSEQUENCES!LEGENDARY CREATORS OF LEGENDARY TERROR!Collecting issues #52–#55 of Warren Publishing's legendary Eerie horror anthology, this affordable paperback edition features the character Hunter—the deadly demon killer of the fu...
This powerful graphic novel confirms Will Eisner as a master of the genre.
In this classic graphic novel, Will Eisner’s pen cuts an expansive swath through all aspects of the human condition. A Family Matter starts close to home, following a...