![]() ![]() I spent the course of a few days poring over it, and it's a masterpiece, well worth reading. I checked out the Contract With God Trilogy, which collects three of his books: A Contract With God, A Life Force, and Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood. But writing this series gave me the kick in the pants to finally read one of Eisner's more literary works, his graphic novels set on Dropsie Avenue in the Bronx. What makes them stand out is that the style of storytelling is ahead of its time, and perhaps the reason it feels familiar is because so many comics artists since have been influenced by Eisner's work. ![]() I'd read some of The Spirit several years ago, but these stood out to me mostly as groundbreaking in the way Eisner used the medium but not so much in the dialogue, which seemed a bit corny to me and not terribly different from a lot of other comics I've read. If we're talking about comics as literature, surely Eisner deserves some recognition. There's a reason that the most prestigious comics industry award (in the United States, at least) is called the Eisner. ![]() I knew about Eisner, of course, called the "father of the graphic novel" both for popularizing the term graphic novel and for being a pioneer of the form. Here's another in a long line of geek confessions: I hadn't really read much of Will Eisner before now. ![]()
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