New Releases by Will Eisner

One of the 20th c.''s great American artists, Will Eisner pioneered the field of comic arts. In this book her refines the art of graphic storytelling into clear, concise principles that every cartoonist, comic artist, writer, and filmmaker needs to know.

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.

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 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.

A black-and-white graphic novel chronicle of the rise, decline, and rebirth of a neighborhood in the South Bronx over the course of more than one hundred years.

A work more disturbing than fiction from "the father of graphic novels" (New York Times). "The ultimate illustration of how absurdly comical and cancerous The Protocols has been to mankind."—Thane Rosenbaum, Los Angeles Times Book Review The Plot, which examines the astonishing conspiracy and the fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, has become a worldwide phenomenon since its hardcover publication, taught in classrooms around the globe. Purported to be the actual blueprints by Jewish leaders to take over the world, the Protocols, first published in 1902, have become gospel truth to international millions. Presenting a pageant of historical figures from nineteenth-century Russia to today''s ideologues, including Tsar Nicholas II, Henry Ford, and Adolf Hitler, Will Eisner unravels and dispels one of the most devastating hoaxes of the twentieth century.

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.

Presents a collection of twenty-two Spirit stories from 1940-1950, featuring the adventures of Eisner''s famous crime fighter.

John Law witnesses the dedication of an African-American rookie policeman on the mean streets of Crossroads, tries to turn a small-time Australian hood named Wallaby Bob away from self-destruction before it is too late, and searches for his old love, movie star Brenda Banks, who has been kidnapped. Also includes Will Eisner''s original three John Law stories.

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Tegneserie. Unge Ismaels højeste ønske er at blive hvalfanger. Hyret på hvalfangerskibet Pequod overværer han kaptajn Akabs vanvittige hævntogt mod den hvide dræberhval, Moby Dick, der har ædt Akabs ene ben. Hævntogtet udvikler sig til et sandt blodbad.

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.

Thrill to the exciting adventures of wartime hero Blackhawk and hismultinational squad of freedom fighters. This special hardcover collectionreprints the Blackhawk stories from MILITARY COMICS #1-17. Included: A map ofBlackhawk island!

Will Eisner is a master of the comics medium, and when he got together to chat with other masters of the medium, what came of it was a collection of information vital to everyone working in the industry, and indispensable to anyone looking to get into it. Featuring interviews with Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Gil Kane, Joe Kubert, Jack Davis, Neal Adams, C.C. Beck, Milton Caniff, Gill Fox, Harvey Kurtzman, and distribution guru Phil Seuling, Will Eisner''s Shop Talk is chock full of golden tidbits of comics knowledge.

Last day in Vietnam is Will Eisner''s memoir of his years in the military, six stories garnered from observations of camp life at close range, of soldiers who were engaged not only in the daily hostilities of war but also in larger, more personal combat.

Eisner continues his series of adaptations of classic tales with this charming and delightfully humourous rendition of Cervantes Don Quixote. The famous knight was quite a gentleman, man of honour and idealist, his selflessness and gallantry made him a legend. A touching story given a new edge by the beautiful full colour illustration and unique interpretation by the master story teller Will Eisner.

It''s the comics master at his best! Volume 15 reprints The Spirit newspapersections published from July 6, 1947 to December 28, 1947, featuring theseductive P''Gell, The Octopus, a send up of Li''l Abner, and more, plus anintroduction by N.C. Christopher Couch, co-author of THE WILL EISNER COMPANION.- See more at:http://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/will-eisners-the-spirit-archives-vol-1

Collects stories from classic Spirit adventures in which a murdered detective fights crime from beyond the grave.

Collects stories from classic Spirit adventures in which a murdered detective fights crime from beyond the grave.