Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel Exclude from Sales It is simply a collection

It is simply a collection of discoveries that I hope will delight and perhaps inspire the viewer to trust their instincts and dare to explore the chaos

From 1940s onward

none of which I had ever seen or hear of before

This book was released in October 2009 to great fanfare and this first printing sold out almost immediately

from charming eighteenth-century portraits to abstract works by twentieth-century Modernists

Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel Exclude from Sales It is simply a collectionFrom the publisher: Will Eisner (1917 2005) is universally considered the master of comics storytelling, best known for The Spirit, his iconic newspaper comic strip, and A Contract With God, the first significant graphic novel. This seminal work from 1978 ushered in a new era of personal stories in comics form that touched every adult topic from mortality to religion and sexuality, forever changing the way writers and artists approached comics