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1001 COMICS MINI-SITE

Even with 960 pages, I couldn't squeeze all the material I had into my book 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die. This mini-site is designed to supplement that book with updates, additional information and links... but obviously you'll still need a copy of the book!

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A Contract With God

by Will Eisner

Original publisher: Baronet Books (USA)
First published: 1978
Reviewed by: Barry Stone
Genre: Autobiographical, Drama, Religion

Recommendations:

Well, a lot of it to me gets back to Eisner. He still in many ways is a framework for me, and I think at least to date, probably the most important piece of work he did was A Contract With God. Certainly in terms of influence, because I wasn’t the only one who sat up and took notice when that book came out. It had a profound effect on how I approached not just the fate of my work, but the kind I wanted to do. I wanted to work much more long form. That’s ironic, because it was a series of short stories. But I think he quietly started a revolution. He’s been relentless in pursuing it. - Frank Miller (Sin City)

I kept putting off buying A Contract With God for a long time because I knew it would be a long time before I saw another Contract With God, and when I read it, it was just like, “Oh, if there were only 18 things coming out like this. - Dave Sim (Cerebus)

Another bridge type book was A Contract With God by Will Eisner, which I picked up when it first came out back in ‘79… it was an important book too, in making me see that there were other types of ways of doing comics. There were other kinds of comics that were possible… here he was doing something different, and something that wasn’t about a character with a mask on his face. That was neat stuff, and kind of eye-opening at the time. - Chester Brown (Louis Reil, Paying For It)

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