Уилл Айснер - автор 24 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Контракт с Богом и другие истории арендного дома, The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue (A Contract With God, A Life Force, Dropsie Avenue), Fagin the jew 10th anniv. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
"Главный труд и самая известная книга Уилла Айснера. Четыре истории о жизни иммигрантов в Нью-Йорке в 30-е. Четыре истории о любви, вере, предательстве на фоне арендного дома №55 на улице Дропси-авеню. Кроме того, в книге - предисловие Скотта Макклауда, вступительное слово Уилла Айснера, история создания ""первого графического романа""."
The legendary graphic novel and the sequels that launched an art form. With graphic narrative that "was closer to the writing of Bernard Malamud or Isaac Bashevis Singer than any comic art which had preceded it" ( The Economist ),
Fagin the jew 10th anniv
"Comics and Sequential Art is a masterwork, the distillation of Will Eisner's genius to a clear and potent elixir."―Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Will Eisner is one of the twentieth century's great American artists, a man who pioneered the field of comic arts. Here, in his classic Comics and Sequential Art, he refines the art of graphi...
In 1936, a 20-year-old artist using the name Willis B. Rensie jump-started the comic-book medium. Writing and illustrating an action-packed weekly serial called Hawks of the Seas-a pirate adventure series set in the 18th-century Caribbean-the artist created one dynamic strip after another, honing his storytelling craft and shaping the comics medium with each one. That artist was none other than co...
Master storyteller Will Eisner returns to one of his favorite subjects -- life in the urban sprawl of New York -- in this spectacular collection of short stories from 1981. From subway to tenement stoop to high-rise apartment, Eisner examines every aspect of the city with characteristic empathy and insight.
A historical novel touching on prejudice, assimilation, and anti-Semitism, this sweeping saga takes us from New York in the eighteenth century to Vienna before World War I, and finally to America during the depression and World War II.
Will Eisner, the Elvis of comics, loved watching the people around him and reporting on their quirks. City People Notebook is a collection of short pieces--call them graphic poems--grouped thematically under the headings Time, Space, and Smell. He captures the essences of these qualities as experienced by urban folk (even smell, a tough literary nut, cracks easily for him). His graphic poems are s...
Master of the Comics medium Will Eisner offers more of his imagination to his readers with this tale of real people simply experiencing life. Set during the Depression, A Life Force tells the hard-luck story of a tenement dweller living in the same neighborhood that served as the setting for A Contract with God. Eisner's everyman, Jacob Shtarkah, and his family and neighbors come to life in t...
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 stories present an unending "story of life, death, and resurrection."
An extraordinary and classic graphic novel celebrating the Big Apple, from the master of American comics art. 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 melancholy duskiness of New York City as expressively as Eisner, who knew t...
This significant DC Archives volume gains immediate interest, unhappily, because of its author-artist's recent death at 87. Eisner was a towering figure in the comics world, active to the end (the field's foremost annual achievement awards are
Presumed killed by Dr. Cobra, Central City Detective Denny Colt rises from the "dead" to fight crime as The Spirit.
Drawing on memories from his World War II service days and his army-sponsored trips to Korea and Vietnam, comics innovator Will Eisner put together Last Day in Vietnam, a six-story collection that reveals the strange feelings that arise in soldiers during wartime. From the long, rollicking title story to the somber, bureaucratic cautionary tale "A Purple Heart for George," Eisner consistently find...
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 globe. Purported to be the actual blueprints by Jewish leaders to take over the world, the Protocols, first published in 1902, have become gospel truth to international millions. Presenting...
An extraordinary autobiography story from a legend in American comics. A roman a clef about Eisner's early years in the thriving comics industry prior to World War II?featuring new annotations that reveal comics pioneers such as Bob Kane and Jack Kirby who appear under pseudonyms.
Following his highly acclaimed A Contract with God, which initiated the modern graphic novel, Will Eisner came back in 1978 with this fast-paced, engaging tale of espionage and power. When a signal from intelligent life in outer space is received here on Earth, it triggers a mad race for information and power. At the center of it all is CIA operative Jim Bludd, who is forced to extreme measures to...
A retelling in comic strip form of the African epic in which an ugly, crippled child grows up to become the liberator and founder of the great empire of old Mali.
Шина увидела свет в далёком 38-м году и стала первой супергероиней в комиксах, обогнав на три года Чудо-Женщину! Она противостоит каждому, кто дерзнул угрожать хрупкому миру в африканских джунглях, а помогает ей охотник по имени Боб. Ранние приключения Шины публиковались под псевдонимом В. Морган Томас, за которым скрывались Уилл Айснер и С. М. Айгер! Популярности героине добавил успешный телесер...
"Комикс и последовательное искусство" - важнейший труд Уилла Айснера по теории и практике современного комикса. С момента первой публикации книги в 1985-м прошло более 30 лет, но информация в ней по-прежнему актуальна. По каким принципам строится комикс? Как сделать графическое повествование крепким и захватывающим? Как гармонично распределить информацию между текстом и рисунком? Как подчинить за...
Уилл Айснер, светило комикс-индустрии, бросает вызов великану мировой литературы Чарльзу Диккенсу на страницах захватывающей и уникальной биографии Фейгина из "Приключений Оливера Твиста". Автор рассказывает о несчастном детстве героя, проведённого им на задворках Лондона, и о начале его преступного пути, попутно решительно выступая против антисемитизма викторианской литературы. Кисть художника р...
"Жизненная сила" - пронзительное высказывание о том, что заставляет нас жить дальше, бороться за себя и свои мечты и верить в добро. На Дропси-авеню в захудалом районе Нью-Йорка жизнь идет своим чередом. Яков Штарка - семьянин и плотник, потерявший всякий интерес к жизни и своим жене и детям, пытается найти хоть какую-то работу и смысл существования. Элтон Шафтсбери - бывший владелец брокерског...
Надеемся, большинству из вас известно (хотя бы из фильма Фрэнка Миллера), что это за персонаж. Комиксы про наиболее выдающегося представителя шляпного правосудия с обезоруживающей харизмой и молодецким задором, созданные одним из САМЫХ значимых творцов за всю историю жанра, и сейчас выглядит не менее свежо, чем в конце 40х. К слову, в это выпуске собраны истории послевоенного периода серии – в 45о...