![]() ![]() From 1978 until his death in 2005, Eisner's experiments with the graphic novel form gained him the admiration of comics artists around the world. Then, in 1978, he published what is considered the first graphic novel, A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories. ![]() Series of illustrations to tell a story-as a means of educating adults. ![]() In the 1950s and 1960s, he left comics to experiment with sequential art-the term he used to describe using a In the Spirit stories, Eisner proved that comics could tell intelligent stories about serious themes like loneliness and doubt. In the late 1930s and 1940s, he invented a not-so-super hero called the Spirit to compete with Superman. In a career that spanned seven decades, Eisner pioneered many of the techniques that became widespread during the graphic novel boom that began in the 1990s. When Eisner began his work, comics were looked down on by those who worried about what young people were reading by the 2000s, however, Eisner was widely appreciated as the man who elevated comic book methods-telling stories with words and sequential pictures-to respect in the form of the graphic novel. Will Eisner is widely considered the father of the American graphic novel. " a combination of two of the most powerful means of communication we have, words and pictures, which accounts for the endurance of this medium and the progress it's making." ![]()
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