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A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Will Eisner published in 1978. The book's short story cycle revolves around poor Jewish characters who live in a tenement in New York City .
- Will Eisner
- 1978
Feb 28, 2017 · A Contract With God is a groundbreaking work, not least because it portrays the lives of ordinary people — in various states of depression, apathy, romance and bawdiness — living on a single ...
- W.W. Norton UK
Oct 19, 2023 · A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Will Eisner published in 1978. The book's short story cycle revolves around poor Jewish characters who live in a tenement in New York City.
May 1, 2017 · A Contract With God explores the everyday extremes of human experience through the tenement building at 55 Dropsie Avenue. Residents strive, struggle, and schlep through the graphic short...
Mar 1, 2022 · With A Contract With God (1978), the earliest trilogy book, Will Eisner, invented a new format: the graphic novel. The ‘graphic novel’ coinage was a sleight of hand that turned ordinary comics into works with ambitions to become literature. As such, it describes the content rather than a medium.
Eisner’s cartooning in A Contract With God, and in his other work, ranges from realistic to very cartoony. How does he use this range of style as a storytelling device?
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Aug 2, 2017 · During his journey to America, Hersh had written a contract with God on a flat stone, which he carried until the period of ritual mourning for Rachele had ceased. He spits on the contract, raging at God, the immemorial questions of why innocents die and good deeds go unrewarded, receiving, as always, no answer.
