A lushly illustrated biography--the first of its kind--of the great Bill Mauldin, the cartoonist who captured better than any other what it means to be at war. Drawing on Mauldin's private papers, correspondence, and thousands of original drawings, author Todd DePastino has rendered a full portrait ... [more]

"A classic drawing textbook from an American comics pioneer, revised and enhanced for a new generation.
Based on Will Eisner's legendary course at New York's School of Visual Arts, this guide has inspired generations of artists, students, teachers, and fans. In Comics and Sequential Art, Eisner r... [more]

From cartoons to graphic novels, from humor to superheroes, comics are the world's most popular form of illustration. And, as in all forms of illustration, artists and designers experiment with visual ideas, image-and-word play, narrative sequencing, and stylistic flourishes through sketching. What ... [more]

As the dramas unfold in A CONTRACT WITH GOD, the first book in this new trilogy, it is at 55 Dropsie Avenue where Frimme Hersh, the pious Jew, first loses his beloved daughter, then breaks his contract with his maker, and ends up as a slumlord; it is on Dropsie Avenue where a street singer, befriend... [more]

"Frankenstein began as the nightmare of an unwed teenage mother in 1816 in Geneva, Switzerland. When the moral universe was shifting and advances in scientific knowledge promised mankind dominion over that which had been God's alone, Mary Shelley envisioned a story of human presumption and its misbe... [more]

"A classic drawing textbook from an American comics pioneer, revised and enhanced for a new generation.
Based on Will Eisner's legendary course at New York's School of Visual Arts, this guide has inspired generations of artists, students, teachers, and fans. Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrat... [more]

"Think you live in a society with a free press? Here are nearly one hundred editorial cartoons you wanted to see but weren't allowed to: all were banned for being too hot to handle. Whether spanking pedophile priests, debating the death penalty, blasting President Bush, shocking prudes, or mocking c... [more]

A stunning graphic novel for kids about an ornery snapping turtle, a murder of crows, and the importance of ecosystems. The reptiles and fish living in a small pond launch a plan to eradicate Mr. Big, a snapping turtle that terrorizes them. Despite a few protests from some pond dwellers, the animals... [more]

"The fantastic, heroic life of Nelson Mandela is brought to life in this landmark graphic work. His story, from his boyhood in a small South African village to his growing political activism with the ANC, his twenty-seven-year incarceration as prisoner 46664 on Robbens Island, his dramatic release, ... [more]

"The fantastic, heroic life of Nelson Mandela is brought to life in this landmark graphic work. His story, from his boyhood in a small South African village to his growing political activism with the ANC, his twenty-seven-year incarceration as prisoner 46664 on Robbens Island, his dramatic release, ... [more]

"A commonplace clerk turns private eye. A lifelong failure attempts a marathon. An octogenarian hitman tries to settle an old score. The seven exceptional short works gathered here range from the grim to the hilarious, narrating the lives of the good, the bad, and the eccentric. Featuring ""A Sunset... [more]

"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 birthday of its patriarch. While they must decide how best to provide for him, he ends... [more]

Chronicling not only the Great Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of left-wing politics throughout the poorest neighborhoods of New York, Will Eisner re-creates himself in A LIFE FORCE as one Jacob Shtarkah, whose existential search for the meaning of ... [more]

In DROPSIE AVENUE, Will 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--Dutch, English, Irish, Jewish, African American, and Puerto Rican--whose faces changed yet whose lives present a... [more]

"INVISIBLE PEOPLE tells the story of three ordinary individuals adrift in the city. The characters who inhabit these tales each value their privacy; their lives are lived alone, without engaging with the outside world. And yet each reaches a turning point, when the individual experience goes from th... [more]

"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 the lives of scientists, politicians, spies, and nobodies as they come to terms with the discovery of ex... [more]

"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 ways that, in hindsight, seem miraculous."... [more]

"In this masterful graphic novel, comics pioneer Will Eisner weaves a darkly humorous tale of three Jewish-American families joined in wedlock: the old-money Arnheims, the more humble, midwestern Obers, and the upstart Kayns. At its heart, the novel is a study in the disappointments of ""good marria... [more]

This hardcover presents New York, The Building, City People Notebook, and Invisible People. The book also includes cameo appearances by the author himself, with several new illustrations sketched by Eisner, posthumously inked by Peter Poplaski. Plus, three previously unpublished "out-takes"!... [more]

"Before the Lower East Side was cool, there was the grit and grime of Avenue C, a world filled with street musicians, overflowing sewers, and peeping toms. In NEW YORK: THE BIG CITY, Will Eisner presents a series of vignettes built around the elements that make up a metropolis--the poetry of its bui... [more]

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a book written one hundred years ago. It has been represented over the decades as a blue print for Jewish world domination. In truth, though, it has long been exposed as an utter fraud, and one of the most successful anti-Semitic myths in history. Eisner takes ... [more]

"An ambitious historical saga, spanning two world wars, that reflects on anti-semitism and the challenges of assimilation for a new American family."... [more]