The growth of comics fandom convinced him to return in the 1970s, and he worked to realize his dreams of creating comics with literary aspirations. He found no support for his ideas, and left the world of commercial comics after ending his signature work The Spirit in 1952.
Eisner uses large, monochromatic images in dramatic perspective, and emphasizes the caricatured characters' facial expressions few panels or captions have traditional borders.Įisner began his comic book career in 1936, and had long had artistic ambitions for what was perceived as a lowbrow medium. The stories are thematically linked with motifs of frustration, disillusionment, violence, and issues of ethnic identity. Though the term "graphic novel" did not originate with Eisner, the book is credited with popularizing its use.Ī Contract with God is made up of four stand-alone stories: in "A Contract with God" a religious man gives up his faith after the death of his young adopted daughter "The Street Singer", has a has-been diva tries to seduce a poor, young street singer, who tries to take advantage of her in turn a bullying racist is led to suicide after being falsely accused of pedophilia in "The Super" and "Cookalein" intertwines the stories of several characters vacationing in the Catskill Mountains. Eisner produced two sequels set in the same tenement: A Life Force in 1988, and Dropsie Avenue in 1995.
It is a short story cycle that revolves around poor Jewish characters who live in a New York City tenement.
A Contract With God (2001 DC Comics edition)Ī Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories is a 1978 graphic novel by American cartoonist Will Eisner.
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