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Will Eisner's New York: Life in the Big City (Will Eisner's New York #1-4)
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Will Eisner,
Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
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...more
Hardcover, 423 pages
Published
October 16th 2006
by W. W. Norton & Company
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This book, I will say without irony or reservation, changed my life. As a graphic artist, it opened my eyes to the incredibly limitless possibilities in what could be achieved in the medium as well as showed to me what someone who simply LOVES what they're doing can accomplish & what that looks like. That is without mentioning the heartwrenching quality of the stories themselves, some extended and many telling a life's tale in one page. Eisner was truly a student of the human condition and his s...more
After the amazing collection The Contract With God Trilogy with the classic novel of the same name, more New York stories seemed like overkill. Little did I realize, New York was Will Eisner's home, and his muse.
While not connected to the Dropsie avenue stories per se (there's only one mention of it), this book collects many stories that just didn't fit anywhere else. Some are mediocre, but iffy Will Eisner is like bad sex: Even when it's bad, it's good.
And there are gems...more
While not connected to the Dropsie avenue stories per se (there's only one mention of it), this book collects many stories that just didn't fit anywhere else. Some are mediocre, but iffy Will Eisner is like bad sex: Even when it's bad, it's good.
And there are gems...more
My lament is that comics, in general, cannot match other art forms in their passion and intensity; the intuitive empathy engendered in us by music, theatre, poetry, fine art ... comics generally can't compete.
Part of the problem is that the sections of the brain which process written language and the sections which decipher graphical information are distinct sections, and reading a comic has our mental energy skittling like hop toads on a hot skillet, while other art forms have the ...more
Part of the problem is that the sections of the brain which process written language and the sections which decipher graphical information are distinct sections, and reading a comic has our mental energy skittling like hop toads on a hot skillet, while other art forms have the ...more
One of the most refreshing and yet depressing reads I've ever had. Eisner was a master of his craft, and some of the stories found in this collection tell stories so simple, so visual, and so filled with heart that it's made it one of the most joyous and at the same time most difficult books I've read in the last few years. Seriously, he's out to break your heart with this book, but in a very genuine and human way.
Maybe Eisner was a big deal back when everyone else was whiz bang booming, and I appreciate that, but from my modern standpoint he comes across as kind of cheesy/overly overt. I'm glad I can recognize his style now, but he's not my favorite comic book writer.
Incredibly poignant vignettes of New York. I don't think it's an accurate depiction of the average New Yorker's experience, but it definitely embodies everything we all hope New York is, with a tinge of reality.
What a terrifically grim take on New York and humanity. The NYC where I lived was a lot friendlier and warmer than the one Eisner depicts here, which almost comes off as a bad cliche of itself.
I enjoyed The Building the most. Invisible people was a very sad collection. Quite thought provoking. Though the majority of the scenes depicted a sadness and corruption to the city, it was moving.
very poignant vignettes of city living. some are tragic, some charming, some just spot on observations of daily life.
beautiful art and poignatnt stories, a little dated but a pleasure to read
Whew, how can Eisner nail it with every book!?!?
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Will Eisner mi riporta a quando, baldo ragazzetto, divoravo The Spirit sul vecchio Linus grande formato, magari quando avevo l’influenza, stampate nel classico quattro vignette a striscia orizzontale e nell’ultima il rassicurante marchietto United Feature Sindacate. Ora veder le spoglie di mastroeisner sbranate in giro da quattro fighetti che sbrodolano di graphic novel mi mette male. Il fumetto è come il rock’n’roll si accende l’amplificatore e via. Tutto il resto è fuffa o tecnomercato
Undeniably a master of his craft, but this volume keeps telling the same downbeat story over and over again
Wow...Eisner was a genius...complex yet simple stories told...the surface seen scratched out to tell the real tale
As usual, Eisner is engaging and kind of sad. He illustrates city life in New York. Many of the stories do not have happy endings. It causes you to think about city life and weight the disadvantages with the benefits.I think I may have liked this more than Contract with God.
Fun and sentimental as all Will Eisner's later work is. A collection of things good bad and ugly about New York. I thouroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. It lacked the Epicness that Contract with god had but overall it was still a memorable read.
i love new york city, and so does will eisner. this is a collection of three different books, all of which are about new york which is as much of a "character" as the people that live there. beautiful work.
of course i love new york, and this books captures all that repetitive misery that is the city. great vignettes, even better stories. this book also focuses more on manhattan, which i like.
will eisner is my hero! his artwork is amazing and I love his simplicity. a true master of sequential art and the original comic artist
Again Eisner on the top of his game in portraying a time and place so intimate to him.
Poignant and true. I can now see his influence in so many other comics.
Nice picture portraits painted. Recommended for an old slice of NYC.
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WILL EISNER was born William Erwin Eisner on March 6, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York. By the time of his death on January 3, 2005, following complications from open heart surgery, Eisner was recognized internationally as one of the giants in the field of sequential art, a term he coined.
In a career that spanned nearly seventy years and eight decades — from the dawn of the comic book to the...more
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