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Introduction
Will Eisner is the great old man of comics.

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CONTENTS
PERIODICALS
BOOKS
  • The Building
  • City People Notebook
  • Comics and Sequential Art
  • A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories
  • The Dreamer
  • Dropsie Avenue, the Neighborhood
  • Family Matter
  • Graphic Storytelling
  • Invisible People
  • Last Day in Vietnam
  • The Last Knight: An Introduction to Don Quixote
  • A Life Force
  • Life on Another Planet
  • Minor Miracles
  • The Name of the Game
  • New York, the Big City
  • The Princess and the Frog
  • Signal from Space
  • To the Heart of the Storm
  • Will Eisner Reader
  • Will Eisner Sketchbook
  • Graphic novels
    Eisner's A Contract with God was something remarkable in American comics.

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    1. A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories
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    A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories [Kitchen Sink edition]often (incorrectly) regarded as the first graphic novel (actually, this is the first graphic short story collection); "A Contract with God" is very good and probably Eisner's most Jewish story; Will Eisner preface, Dennis "Denny" O'Neil introduction; originally published in 1978; published by Kitchen Sink Press in 1989
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    2. Life on Another Planet
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    Signal from Spacereprints material from Will Eisner's Spirit Magazine, where it was serialized as "Life on Another Planet" in black-and-white from 1978-1980; 132 pages; published by Kitchen Sink Press in 1983
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    Signal from Space [color, hardcover edition]hardcover edition; in color
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    Life on Another Planet [Kitchen Sink edition]a retitled reprinting of Signal from Space
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    3. New York, the Big City
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    New York, the Big City [Kitchen Sink edition]reprints material from 1981-1983; published by Kitchen Sink Press in 1986
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    4. A Life Force
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    A Life Force [Kitchen Sink edition]reprints material from 1983-1985; published by Kitchen Sink Press in 1988
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    5. Will Eisner Reader
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    Will Eisner Reader [Kitchen Sink edition]a graphic short story collection; reprints material from Will Eisner's Quarterly #6-8 (from 1985-1986); published by Kitchen Sink Press in 1991
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    6. The Dreamer
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    The Dreamer [Kitchen Sink edition]a graphic novella of Eisner's early days in the golden age of the comics industry; 46 pages of story; published by Kitchen Sink Press in 1986
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    7. The Building
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    The Building [Kitchen Sink edition]80 pages; published by Kitchen Sink Press in 1987
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    8. City People Notebook
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    City People Notebook [Kitchen Sink edition]86 pages; consists of reworked outtakes from New York, the Big City; enjoyable; published by Kitchen Sink Press in 1989
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    9. To the Heart of the Storm
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    To the Heart of the Storm [Kitchen Sink edition]208 pages; published by Kitchen Sink Press in 1991
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    10. Invisible People
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    Invisible People [Kitchen Sink edition]118 pages; published by Kitchen Sink Press in 1993
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    11. Dropsie Avenue, the Neighborhood
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    Dropsie Avenue, the Neighborhood [Kitchen Sink edition]a graphic novella, brilliantly covering the same avenue throughout its life; 170 pages; published by Kitchen Sink Press in 1995
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    12. Family Matter
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    Family Mattera graphic novella; 68 pages; a really terrific statement on the underside of families; the last original work published Kitchen Sink Press; published in 1998
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    Family Matter [hardcover edition]hardcover edition; published by Kitchen Sink
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    13. Last Day in Vietnam
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    Last Day in Vietnama graphic short story collection; 76 pages; the first new Eisner work published after the collapse of Kitchen Sink Press; published by Dark Horse Comics on Wednesday, 12 July 2000
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    14. Minor Miracles
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    Minor Miraclesa graphic short story collection; 110 pages; the first original Eisner work published by DC Comics, which began reprinting Eisner's work not long before Dark Horse Comics publishing Last Day in Vietnam; published on Wednesday, 18 October 2000
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    15. The Name of the Game
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    The Name of the Game [hardcover edition]published by DC Comics; hardcover edition
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    Non-fiction
    Eisner's non-fiction.

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    1. Comics and Sequential Art
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    Comics and Sequential Art [original edition]published by Poorhouse Press in 1985
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    Comics and Sequential Art [expanded edition]first expanded edition, 1990; 158 pages
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    2. Graphic Storytelling
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    Children's stories
    Eisner's children's stories.

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    1. The Princess and the Frog
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    The Princess and the Frogbased on the Grimm brothers; 32 pages; published by NBM
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    2. The Last Knight
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    The Last Knight: An Introduction to Don Quixotebased on Miguel De Cervantes's Don Quixote; 32 pages; published by NBM in April 2000
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    Miscellaneous
    Eisner's miscellaneous stuff.

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    Will Eisner Sketchbookpublished by Kitchen Sink in September 1996
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    Other Sites of Interest
    On The Continuity Pages / continuitypages.com
    The Continuity Pages: The Spirit
    The continuity page for Will Eisner's (and others') work on his incredibly influential The Spirit.
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