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2014: by Larry GonickLarry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and a masterpiece of popular literature.…
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2008: by Will Eisner An extraordinary autobiographical story from a legend in American comics, this roman à clef about Eisner's early years in the thriving comics industry prior to World War II features new annotations …
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2019: Heart of Darkness has unsettled generations of readers with its haunting portrait of colonialism in Africa. Acclaimed illustrator Peter Kuper delivers a visually immersive and profound interpretation of this contr…
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2008: by Will Eisner Loosely based on the story of Eisner's wife's family, this epic tale spans three generations of power and privilege, exploring wealth, marriage, and jealousy in a sprawling American dynasty.
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2010: (W/A) Robert Crumb Cute little kittens, angels, and babies? Flowers, ice cream cones, and German boy bands? Coming from, supposedly, the creepiest and most pessimistic artist of his generation? Yes indeed, there i…
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2007: In what will be the closest thing Eisner fans will see to an autobiography, the great master and pioneer of American graphic arts presents the most intimate and personal perspective yet on his life as a writer, a …
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2008: by Will Eisner Born in 1917, Will Eisner was the author of The Spirit. This collection, the Will Eisner Reader, features a collection of his brilliant short-story gems, including 'A Sunset in Sunshine City,' an od…
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2015: With an unparalleled eye for stories and expressive illustration, Will Eisner, the master and pioneer of American comics art, presents one of his renowned celebrations of the Big Apple. City People Notebook contai…
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2017: A gorgeous, collectible hardcover edition of Will Eisner's pioneering graphic novel to celebrate the author's 100th birthday. Published quietly in 1978, Will Eisner's revolutionary literary work A Contract With Go…
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2015: The first graphic novel - a mesmerizing fictional chronicle of a universal American experience. Through a quartet of four interwoven stories, A Contract With God expresses the joy, exuberance, tragedy, and drama o…
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2024: 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 w…
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2024: 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, whose storie…
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2024: In this classic graphic novel, Will Eisner's pen cuts an expansive swath through all aspects of the human condition. A Family Matter starts close to home, following a family as it gathers to observe the ninetieth …
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2024: Invisible People is a haunting trio of stories about life's forgotten shut-ins in the tradition of Kafka, Gogol, and Melville.
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2024: Hailed as a 'masterpiece' by Robert 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 Sht…
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2024: 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…
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2009: (W/A) Will Eisner 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 …
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2009: (W/A) Will Eisner A powerful portrayal of Jewish life in the New York City of Eisner's youth, Minor Miracles encourages similar introspection as it examines how luck and coincidence converge in everyday life in wa…
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2024: No illustrator evoked the melancholy duskiness of New York City as expressively as Eisner, who knew the city from the bottom up. Before the Lower East Side was cool, there was the grit and grime of Avenue C, a wor…
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2024: 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 gl…
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2024: With an unparalleled eye for stories and expressive illustration, Will Eisner, the master and pioneer of American comics art, presents one of his renowned celebrations of the Big Apple. No illustrator evoked the m…
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2024: Touching on prejudice, assimilation, and anti-Semitism, this sweeping historical novel takes readers from New York in the eighteenth century to Vienna before World War I, and finally to America during the depressi…