A Contract With God

Week five: body talk

A Contract With God- Will Eisner

Will Eisner was a very popular American cartoonist and writer who coined the term "graphic novel". In his famous graphic novel titled "A Contract With God", Eisner uses darker visuals and topics that create a more realistic feeling theme to the situations and events. "A Contract With God" heavily features monologue style text to tell the stories, similarly to how a traditional novel is formatted. This being a graphic novel, however, there are of course images that go along with the words, which were also a product of Eisner's creation. The story doesn't simply rely on one or the other (words or images), it is told by those two aspects working together.
Although this format is less appealing to me as a reader, I understand the purpose of them and find it interesting that Will Eisner and many graphic novelists after him realized the demand for comics to expand their reach and increase the variety of storytelling methods. It was very common at the time (and even today) to see comics as simply entertainment for children, so the format of stories like this were surely a refreshing take on the perspective of comics being for mature adults as well.

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