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I just finished Will Eisner's The Contract with God Trilogy. It collects his three Dropsie Avenue graphic novels - A Contract with God (containing 4 short stories), A Life Force and Dropsie Avenue. The A Contract with God short stories collection was a major milestone in comic book history, as it popularised the phrase "graphic novel" when it was published in 1978.
Unlike the majority of comics, The Contract with God Trilogy doesn't involve superheroes, spaceships, monsters or crimefighters of any sort. It chronicles the lives of the very ordinary inhabitants of a Bronx neighbourhood, Dropsie Avenue. The art manages to both simple and complex at the same time - take a look at the excerpt available at Amazon.com to see what I mean.
Personally, I think it is an amazing artistic work and I'm very glad I read it. I wouldn't say I enjoyed it, though. Descriptions of the day-to-day lives of ordinary people don't hold much interest for me. I don't feel that way just about comics, I've never enjoyed that style of book, film or TV show (and my friends might say, that style of conversation). But just because I don't like reading Maeve Binchy doesn't mean I think her novels should be eradicated from the bookshelves. I'm very glad something of this quality exists for those want something other than tights 'n capes in their comics.
Unlike the majority of comics, The Contract with God Trilogy doesn't involve superheroes, spaceships, monsters or crimefighters of any sort. It chronicles the lives of the very ordinary inhabitants of a Bronx neighbourhood, Dropsie Avenue. The art manages to both simple and complex at the same time - take a look at the excerpt available at Amazon.com to see what I mean.
Personally, I think it is an amazing artistic work and I'm very glad I read it. I wouldn't say I enjoyed it, though. Descriptions of the day-to-day lives of ordinary people don't hold much interest for me. I don't feel that way just about comics, I've never enjoyed that style of book, film or TV show (and my friends might say, that style of conversation). But just because I don't like reading Maeve Binchy doesn't mean I think her novels should be eradicated from the bookshelves. I'm very glad something of this quality exists for those want something other than tights 'n capes in their comics.
