Will Eisner - Champion of the Graphic Novel

Will Eisner (1917-2005) is universally considered the master of comics storytelling and is best known for his iconic comic strip The Spirit and for his seminal work A Contract With God. Considered the first significant graphic novel, upon publication in 1978 it ushered in a new kind of personal, non-super-hero genre of comics storytelling. Since then, Eisner went on to write and illustrate over twenty award-winning graphic novels. Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel by noted historian Paul Levitz celebrates Eisner by including not only unpublished and rare art, photographs, letters and sketches from the archives, but original interviews with creators such as Jules Feiffer, Art Spiegelman, Scott McCloud, Jeff Smith and Neil Gaiman, all of whom knew and were inspired by Eisner and have offered their support to help publicise this long-awaited tribute to a comics legend.

Product details

• Authors: Jules Feiffer, Feiffer Jules, Paul Levitz, Paul/ Meltzer Levitz, Levitz Paul
• Assisted by: Brad Meltzer (Introduction), Meltzer Brad (Introduction)
• Publisher: Abrams
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2015
• EAN: 9781419714986
• ISBN: 978-1-4197-1498-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Abrams Comicarts; Abrams Comicarts
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Kunstgeschichte, Comic, Manga : Geschichte, einzelne Künstler, Künstlermonografien, Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1950 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Graphic Novels und Comics: Handbuch und Rezension, Biografien: Kunst und Unterhaltung, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Illustration, Englische Bücher / Comic, Cartoon, Humor, DESIGN / History & Criticism, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), Comic / Lexikon, Jahrbuch, Kataloge, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, Gaiman, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, history of design, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Individual artists, art monographs, Comic book & cartoon art, Comic book and cartoon artwork, Smith Neil