Download or read book The Contract with God Trilogy written by Will Eisner and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frimme Hersh breaks his contract with God and ends up as a Depression-era slumlord, while Jacob Shtarkah strives to help an old friend trapped in Nazi Germany and struggles with poverty and the corruption of the residents of Dropsie Avenue.
Download or read book Dropsie Avenue written by Will Eisner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Life Force written by Will Eisner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.
Download or read book To the Heart of the Storm written by Will Eisner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary autobiography story from a legend in American comics.
Download or read book A Contract with the Earth written by Newt Gingrich and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundation of the book—a ten-point Contract with the Earth—promotes ingenuity over rhetoric as the way forward.
Download or read book Life in Pictures written by Will Eisner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Handbook of Comics and Graphic Narratives written by Sebastian Domsch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether one describes them as sequential art, graphic narratives or graphic novels, comics have become a vital part of contemporary culture. Their range of expression contains a tremendous variety of forms, genres and modes − from high to low, from serial entertainment for children to complex works of art. This has led to a growing interest in comics as a field of scholarly analysis, as comics studies has established itself as a major branch of criticism. This handbook combines a systematic survey of theories and concepts developed in the field alongside an overview of the most important contexts and themes and a wealth of close readings of seminal works and authors. It will prove to be an indispensable handbook for a large readership, ranging from researchers and instructors to students and anyone else with a general interest in this fascinating medium.
Download or read book Arguing with God written by Anson Laytner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an old proverb puts it, "Two Jews, three opinions." In the long, rich, tumultuous history of the Jewish people, this characteristic contentiousness has often been extended even unto Heaven. Arguing with God is a highly original and utterly absorbing study that skates along the edge of this theological thin ice--at times verging dangerously close to blasphemy--yet also a source of some of the most poignant and deeply soulful expressions of human anguish and yearning. The name Israel literally denotes one who "wrestles with God." And, from Jacob's battle with the angel to Elie Wiesel's haunting questions about the Holocaust that hang in the air like still smoke over our own age, Rabbi Laytner admirably details Judaism's rich and pervasive tradition of calling God to task over human suffering and experienced injustice. It is a tradition that originated in the biblical period itself. Abraham, Moses, Elijah, and others all petitioned for divine intervention in their lives, or appealed forcefully to God to alter His proposed decree. Other biblical arguments focused on personal or communal suffering and anger: Jeremiah, Job, and certain Psalms and Lamentations. Rabbi Laytner delves beneath the surface of these "blasphemies" and reveals how they implicitly helped to refute the claims of opponent religions and advance Jewish doctrines and teachings.
Download or read book Will Eisner s New York written by Will Eisner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Adam s Contract With God written by Heidi Custin and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a young man's journey while navigating life with Schizophrenia. It tells of the effects mental illness has on the one living with it, and the friends and family who fought hard to get him help and survive in a world that stigmatizes mental illness. Seen through the mother's eyes with great love and agony.
Download or read book Minor Miracles written by Will Eisner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book May Contain Graphic Material written by M. Keith Booker and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first Superman film came to the screen in 1978, films adapted from comics have become increasingly important as a film form. Since that time, advances in computer-generated special effects have significantly improved the ability of film to capture the style and action of comics, producing film such as X-men and Spider-man.
Download or read book Marriage written by Craig Hill and published by Harvest Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jamilti and Other Stories written by Rutu Modan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rutu Modan's Exit Wounds was chosen by The Times as one of the three best graphic novels of 2007. It won the 2008 Eisner Award for the Best New Graphic Novel and was nominated for the Angoulême Best Comic Book Prize. Jamilti and Other Stories collects Modan's early short works: stories that range from darkly fantastical and unsettling to surprising discoveries that shape personal identity. And, as in Exit Wounds, she addresses political violence affecting everyday lives.
Download or read book A Contract with God written by Will Eisner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life on Another Planet written by Will Eisner and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his highly acclaimed A Contract with God, which initiated the modern graphic novel, Will Eisner came back in 1978 with this fast-paced, engaging tale of espionage and power. When a signal from intelligent life in outer space is received here on Earth, it triggers a mad race for information and power. At the center of it all is CIA operative Jim Bludd, who is forced to extreme measures to keep himself and the mysterious woman he loves alive.
Download or read book A Contract with God And Other Tenement Stories written by Will Eisner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revolutionary work of graphic storytelling that inspired a new art form. Will Eisner was present at the dawn of comics. In the 1940s, he pushed the boundaries of the medium with his acclaimed weekly comic strip The Spirit, and with the publication of A Contract with God in 1978, he created a new medium altogether: the graphic novel. It was unlike anything seen before, heralding an era when serious cartoonists were liberated from the limiting confines of the comic strip. Eisner’s work was a shining example of what comics could be: as inventive, moving, and complex as any literary art form. Eisner considered himself “a graphic witness reporting on life, death, heartbreak, and the never-ending struggle to prevail.” A Contract with God begins with a gripping tale that mirrors the artist’s real-life tragedy, the death of his daughter. Frimme Hersh, a devout Jew, questions his relationship with God after the loss of his own beloved child. Hersh’s crisis is intertwined with the lives of the other unforgettable denizens of Eisner’s iconic Dropsie Avenue, a fictionalized version of the quintessential New York City street where he came of age at the height of the Depression. This centennial edition showcases Eisner’s singular visual style in new high-resolution scans of his original art, complete with an introduction by Scott McCloud and an illuminating history of Eisner’s seminal work. Now readers can experience the legendary book that launched a unique art form and reaffirmed Will Eisner as one of the great pioneers of American graphic storytelling.
