Monday, December 24, 2007

Eisner's 'Contract With God' has proved lucrative

By Tim Kane
Albany Times Union
Friday, December 21, 2007

Albany, N.Y. - Nearly 30 years ago, the noted cartoonist Will Eisner published a long-form comic book and called it a "graphic novel." The literary world hasn't been quite the same since.

More than 200 pages long, Eisner's 1978 book, "A Contract With God," stands as a landmark in a genre that today is eclipsing traditional comics and making serious inroads into mainstream publishing - not to mention attracting the deep-pocketed attention of Hollywood.

Excerpts from "A Contract With God" - an account of the artist's gritty boyhood in the Bronx - anchor a captivating exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass.

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