Will Eisner's A Contract with God Curator's Collection

by Will Eisner

Winner of three 2018 Scott Dunbier Best Design, Best Reproduction and Scanning Quality, and Best Overall Artist's Edition of the year! 

Will Eisner's A Contract with God --one of the most influential graphic novels of all time--reproduced at 1:1 size from the original art! This deluxe slipcase, two-volume hardcover set contains full-size, full-color reproductions of Eisner's unpublished pencil layouts in one volume and his finished inked pages in the companion volume! With commentary from 
Frank Miller, Dave Gibbons, Denis Kitchen, and John Lind.


This unprecedented presentation provides a rare glimpse into the creative process of the Champion of the Graphic Novel and the making of a comics masterwork. This wealth of previously unseen material is augmented by text and appreciations from numerous Eisner Award winners. For collectors, scholars, and fans alike--this edition is not to be missed!


“For my generation of cartoonists A Contract with God is a touchstone.” —Jeff Smith ( Bone )

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics

400 pages, Hardcover

Published June 19, 2018

About the author

William Erwin Eisner was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series The Spirit (1940–1952) was noted for its experiments in content and form. In 1978, he popularized the term "graphic novel" with the publication of his book A Contract with God. He was an early contributor to formal comics studies with his book Comics and Sequential Art (1985). The Eisner Award was named in his honor and is given to recognize achievements each year in the comics medium; he was one of the three inaugural inductees to the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

Reviews

[Comics Alternative · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Lindsay Wolf · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book showed me how I had subconsciously fabricated, of my own doing entirely, a contract with God yet failed to recognize He never signed it. It showed me how this contract I had written and believed to be signed off on gave me expectations for fairy tale ending, narrow, God-ordained outcomes. I learned that in doing so I had perpetrated my own misery.