William Eisner, Author GreyCore Press $23 (221p) ISBN 978-0-9671851-6-3
Twelve stories and a novella comprise William Eisner's frank and imaginative second book, Done In by Innocent Things. In the evocative ""An Afternoon at the Movies,"" an unnamed narrator watches his mother and father's courtship in ""grainy,...
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William Eisner. Permanent, $29.95 (341p) ISBN 978-1-57962-312-8
Little of significance happens in this meandering novel of the early 1980s decline and revival of a small electronic components maker in Cambridge, Mass. In his new novel (after Fault Lines), Eisner's contrived characters rarely leave a thought...
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William Eisner, Author, Will Eisner, Author Kitchen Sink Press $15.95 (170p) ISBN 978-0-87816-348-9
An acknowledged master of the comics medium who has been instrumental in its creative and business development since the early 1930s, Eisner (Contract With God, To the Heart of the Storm) virtually invented the serious American book-length comics...
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William Eisner, Author, Will Eisner, Author Kitchen Sink Press $24.95 (170p) ISBN 978-0-87816-349-6
An acknowledged master of the comics medium who has been instrumental in its creative and business development since the early 1930s, Eisner (Contract With God, To the Heart of the Storm) virtually invented the serious American book-length comics...
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William Eisner, Author, Dave Schreiner, Editor, Will Eisner, Author Kitchen Sink Press $14.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-87816-133-1
Structured around the induction of a young man much like himself into the army in 1942, Eisner's ( A Life Force ) autobiographical graphic novel examines the lives of Jewish immigrants and their children in pre-WW II Europe and America. As young...
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William Eisner, Author, Dave Schreiner, Editor, Will Eisner, Author Kitchen Sink Press $9.94 (10p) ISBN 978-0-87816-129-4
Two of the seven stories in this collection (culled from Will Eisner's Quarterly magazine) show a side of Eisner little seen since The Spirit , his Sunday supplement in the 1940s and 1950s: his sense of humor. ``The Telephone'' is an amusing...
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William Eisner, Author, Jeff Putnam, Editor Baskerville Publishers $18 (201p) ISBN 978-1-880909-27-0
Franklin Reeber, a 25-year-old Boston engineer turned budding novelist in Paris, is easily seduced by his 69-year-old landlady, Mme. Honorine Colmar, a cultivated eccentric who consults tarot cards and makes love to boarders under the watchful eye...
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