";s:4:"text";s:4319:" Fortunately, Eisner didn’t abandon everything when his daughter died, instead finding a way to give voice to his own pain, to transform it into fiction the way the best artists are able to do.One of the first textbooks about comics, this is based on Eisner’s many years teaching at School of Visual Arts in New York. He shaves off his beard and abandons his life and his principles and scholarship, devoting the rest of his life to making money.It sounds a bit like an old melodrama, and all of the stories in the collection have that feel as well, but this story in particular is raw and emotional. During his tenure he's interviewed many of the living legends of comics, covered comic strips, webcomics, indie comics, book publishers, and breaking news. If you're not yet familiar with Will Eisner's comics, we celebrate his 100th birthday with a rundown of the legendary creator's best works.Will Eisner would have turned 100 years old this month.For creators and many comics readers, Eisner has long been considered one of the great masters. As Eisner wrote in the beginning of “A Contract with God,” “the following stories are based on life in these tenements during the 1930’s...the dirty thirties! Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages by Dess, Lumpkiin, Eisner and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. That said, as a textbook deconstructing the form, it’s hard to beat it.This volume collects four of Eisner’s books: "New York," "The Building," "City People Notebook" and "Invisible People." These works also establish him as one of the great artists of New York City, as the city was his subject just as much as the people who lived there.In "The Spirit," Denny Colt and his adventures were often a way for Eisner and his collaborators to tell the stories of other people, to tell the stories of the city. Magazine" for the U.S. Army in 1051. "A Contract with God" consists of four stories, the title tale telling the story of Frimme Hersh, whose adopted daughter Rachele has died. A major aspect of "The Spirit" is the way Eisner would craft his splash pages, using typography to spell out “The Spirit” in different ways. These are stories set in the past, stories that being remembered, and so they require a different approach. The story, we would learn years later, was autobiographical, as Eisner and his wife lost their daughter Alice to leukemia when she was only sixteen. The book has 22 Spirit stories, most of them from the postwar period, including the one that many of us still talk about, "The Story of Gerhard Schnobble," which I will not spoil for those who have not yet had the opportunity to read it.During World War II, when Eisner was working for the US government, he hit upon an idea that today seems obvious, though it was revolutionary at the time.
