New Releases by Will Eisner

Will Eisner gilt als der Erfinder der Graphic Novel, des anspruchsvollen Comicromans. In drei umfangreichen Sammelbänden legt Carlsen nun seine wichtigsten Geschichten als »Will Eisner Bibliothek« vor. Herzstück des ersten Bandes ist »Ein Vertrag mit Gott«, eine lose Kette literarischer Miniaturen, die in ihrer Gesamtheit ein Bild der Großstadt New York und ihrer Bewohner in den 1930er Jahren zeichnet. Bei Erscheinen 1978 brachen Eisners anspruchsvolle Comic-Erzählungen in Buchform mit sämtlichen damals gängigen Konventionen - heute gilt »Ein Vertrag mit Gott« als einer der Graphic-Novel-Klassiker schlechthin. Ergänzt wird dieses Meisterwerk durch die thematisch passenden Comic-Romane »A life force« und »Dropsie Avenue«. Die FAZ nannte Will Eisner »Amerikas wichtigsten Zeichner«, und Carlsen sieht ihn als unverzichtbaren Sockel des Graphic-Novel-Programms.

Cerita di dalam buku ini bergulir di Jalan Raya Dropsie, tempat Frimme Hersh melakukan kesepakatan dengan Tuhan. Di Jalan Raya ini terdapat rumah-rumah yang berderet panjang mirip kereta, tempat tinggal para pegawai negeri bergaji rendah atau buruh bersama keluarga mereka yang penuh gejolak, yang kebanyakan merupakan imigran baru. Mereka disibukkan oleh kegiatan mengurus anak dan memimpikan kehidupan lebih baik yang mereka tahu ada di pusat kota.

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 broader perspective, chronicling the lives of scientists, politicians, spies, and nobodies as they come to terms with the discovery of extraterrestrial life: in reaching out to other galaxies, Eisner’s characters ultimately find themselves focusing within.

A graphic novel that traces the events in the life of one family over the course of twenty-four hours, bringing to light secrets of abuse, greed, and other dark memories.

Collects four graphically illustrated stories from Will Eisner that explore strange occurrences in daily life, including \"The Miracle of Dignity,\" \"Street Magic,\" \"A New Kid on the Block,\" and \"A Special Wedding Ring.

A graphic novel by Will Eisner that recounts the story of three families from different generations that struggle to find power, wealth, and happiness.

A commonplace clerk turns private eye. A lifelong failure attempts a marathon. An octogenarian hitman tries to settle an old score. The seven exceptional short works gathered here range from the grim to the hilarious, narrating the lives of the good, the bad, and the eccentric. Featuring \"A Sunset in Sunshine City,\" Eisner''s very personal ode to memory and nostalgia inspired by his transition to retirement in Florida, this book displays the artist''s mastery of the short story form, as well as his acute understanding of family and friendship, betrayal and redemption.

The final volume of Will Eisner’s celebrated instructional trilogy explores the critical principle of body grammar in comics storytelling. Designed and outlined by Will Eisner before his death in 2005, this posthumous masterwork, the third and final book in the Will Eisner Instructional Series, finally reveals the secrets of Eisner’s own techniques and theories of movement, body mechanics, facial expressions, and posture: the key components of graphic storytelling. From his earliest comics, including the celebrated Spirit, to his pioneering graphic novels, Eisner understood that the proper use of anatomy is crucial to effective storytelling. His control over the mechanical and intuitive skills necessary for its application set him apart among comics artists, and his principles of body grammar have proven invaluable to legions of students in overcoming what is perhaps the most challenging aspect of creating comics. Buttressed by dozens of illustrations, which display Eisner’s mastery of expression, both subtle and overt, Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative will benefit comics fans, students, and teachers and is destined to become the essential primer on the craft.

In this work, Eisner reveals his techniques and theories about movement, body mechanics, facial expressions, and posture: the key components and, generally, the most challenging aspects of effective graphic storytelling.

Learn how to control a story effectively using a broad array of techniques. With examples from Will Eisner''s own catalog and other masters, this book distills the art of graphic storytelling into principles that every comic artist, writer, and filmmaker should know.

An extraordinary autobiography story from a legend in American comics.

INTRODUCCIÓN DE NEIL GAIMAN Will Eisner realiza el mayor homenaje a la Gran Manzana que se ha hecho jamás en el campo de la novela gráfica y deja para la posteridad su particular visión de Nueva York, la ciudad que inspiró su carrera como pionero en el mundo del cómic. INCLUYE: • NUEVA YORK • EL EDIFICIO • APUNTES SOBRE LA GENTE DE CIUDAD • GENTE INVISIBLE

A series of vignettes, in graphic novel format, built around elements that make up New York City--its buildings, people, trash and treasures.

Character sketches and timeless snapshots of the eccentric denizens of an American city reflect Eisner''s comic genius and powers of observation.

Celebrating the Big Apple, a chronicle of a city building and the people who inhabited it serves as a testament to the greatest human qualities.

In ''Life, in Pictures'' Eisner presents an intimate and personal perspective on his life as a writer and artist through his graphic art. The book features famous characters from the world of comics (under pseudonyms) and other historical figures and family members.

One of four extraordinary graphic novels celebrating the Big Apple, from the master of American comics art.

Eisner''s masterwork continues through one of its greatest periods in WILLEISNER''S THE SPIRIT ARCHIVES VOL. 23, collecting classic Spirit Sections fromlate 1951 and featuring such classic stories as \"Heat,\" \"The Counterfeit Killer\"and \"The Man from Mars.\"

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 in the Bronx. This is the legendary book that launched a new art form and reaffirmed Will Eisner as one of the great pioneers of American graphics.

“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 rise of Nazism and the spread of socialist politics through the depiction of the protagonist, Jacob Shtarkah, whose existential search reflected Eisner’s own lifelong struggle.

With an unparalleled eye for stories and expressive illustration, Will Eisner, the master and pioneer of American comics art, presents graphic fiction\''s greatest celebration of the Big Apple. No illustrator evoked the melancholy duskiness of New York City as expressively as Eisner, who knew the city from the bottom up. This new hardcover presents a quartet of graphic works (New York, The Building, City People Notebook, and Invisible People) and features what Neil Gaiman describes as \''tales as brutal, as uncaring as the city itself.\'' From ancient buildings \''barnacled with laughter and stained with tears\''to the subways, \''humorless iron reptiles, clacking stupidly on a webbing of graceful steel rails,\'' Will Eisner\''s New York includes cameo appearances by the author himself; several new illustrations sketched by Eisner, posthumously inked by Peter Poplaski; and three previously unpublished \''out-takes\'' - a treasure for any Eisner fan, and sure to become a collectible.

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) saw himself as \"a graphic witness reporting on life, death, heartbreak, and the never-ending struggle to prevail.\" The publication of A Contract With God when Eisner was sixty-one proved to be a watershed moment both for him and for comic literature. It marked the birth of the modern graphic novel and the beginning of an era when serious cartoonists could be liberated from their stultifying comic-book format. More than a quarter-century after the initial publication of A Contract With God, and in the last few months of his life, Eisner chose to combine the three fictional works he had set on Dropsie Avenue, the mythical street of his youth in Depression-era New York City. As the dramas unfold in A Contract With God, the first book in this new trilogy, it is at 55 Dropsie Avenue where Frimme Hersh, the pious Jew, first loses his beloved daughter, then breaks his contract with his maker, and ends up as a slumlord; it is on Dropsie Avenue where a street singer, befriended by an aging diva, is so beholden to the bottle that he fails to grasp his chance for stardom; and it is there that a scheming little girl named Rosie poisons a depraved super’s dog before doing in the super as well. In the second book, A Life Force, declared by R. Crumb to be \"a masterpiece,\" Eisner re-creates himself in his protagonist, Jacob Shtarkah, whose existential search reflected Eisner’s own lifelong struggle. Chronicling not only the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of left-wing politics, Eisner combined the miniaturist sensibility of Henry Roth with the grand social themes of novelists such as Dos Passos and Steinbeck. Finally, in Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood, Eisner graphically traces the social trajectory of this mythic avenue over four centuries, creating a sweeping panorama of the city and its waves of new residents—the Dutch, English, Irish, Jews, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans—whose faces changed yet whose lives presented an unending \"story of life, death, and resurrection.\" The Contract With God Trilogy is a mesmerizing, fictional chronicle of a universal American experience and Eisner’'' most poignant and enduring literary legacy.

LA CONSPIRACIÓN es el legado que nos deja Will Eisner, que acabó la obra durante su último mes de vida, y ha sido considerada por algunos críticos como su obra más comprometida, una nueva novela gráfica en la que el maestro demuestra una vez más que la narrativa gráfica carece de límites temáticos.

"Le Spirit doit devenir une encyclopédie virtuelle, si ce n''est une bible, de la manière de concevoir la bande dessinée." - Archie Goodwin (scénariste, éditeur) Les comics existaient depuis de longues années avant que Will Eisner n''entre dans la danse, et il avait eu bien d''autres innovateurs avant lui : les illustrations incroyablement détaillées et l''imagination débridée des mises en page de Winsor McKay ; le ménage à trois, surréaliste de beauté, conçu par George Herriman ; ou l''audace du clair-obscur et des personnages réalistes de Milton Caniff. Et encore, ce ne sont là que les plus évidents. Mais les comics n''avaient jamais connu personne comme Eisner ; sachant allier ce qui s''était fait de meilleur, jusqu''alors, à de nombreuses innovations personnelles. Eisner s''éloigna durant plusieurs années de l''atelier de production qu''il partageait avec Jerry Iger, suite à une offre du journal Register and Tribune. Il y produisit ce que l''on finirait par appeler la "Section du Spirit", un supplément format comics, tout en couleurs, pour les éditions du dimanche destinées à leurs abonnés. Bien qu''il ait été à l''époque responsable de tout le contenu, le Spirit était la véritable contribution d''Eisner, non seulement au journal, mais à la bande dessinée elle-même. La Section du Spirit était un véritable hybride : à la fois comic strip et comic book. Les comics tels qu''on les connaît sont nés en tant que réimpressions des strips paraissant dans les quotidiens. Et en un renversement de l''histoire, un comics allait à présent être produit pour un journal. Rien de tel n''avait jamais été fait, et l''expérience ne serait jamais plus tentée. Avec ses histoires du Spirit, longues de sept ou huit pages chacune, Eisner nous offrit des Comics qui chantaient et dansaient, riaient et pleuraient, et qui pouvaient voler...

A master of the graphic novel brings new depth and insight to one of literature''s most infamous characters, retelling the story of Oliver Twist from Fagin''s perspective.

Era uma vez um príncipe que foi enfeitiçado por uma velha corcunda e virou sapo, sendo então obrigado a deixar o castelo onde morava. Em busca de uma residência mais adequada à sua nova condição, acabou se estabelecendo no poço de um outro castelo, junto ao qual uma princesinha costumava brincar com sua bola de ouro. Um dia ela deixou a bola cair dentro do poço e o sapo se ofereceu para tirá-la de lá; em troca, a princesa teria de beijá-lo. Assim, o caminho até um possível final feliz não chega a ser cor-de-rosa, pois Will Eisner procura transformar esse conto de fadas num pequeno estudo da ironia.