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Invisible People by Will Eisner
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Overview: One of four extraordinary graphic novels celebrating the Big Apple, from the master of American comics art. A haunting trio of stories about life’s forgotten shut-ins in the tradition of Kafka, Gogol, and Melville.

      This collection of 3 stories from a pioneer in the jenre all center on the theme of urban alienation. The stories are well told and in a tradition reminiscent of 19th century short stories, like Gogol. Any of them would have made a classic Twilight Zone episode. It was interesting to me how well that style fits with Depression-era NYC. ‘The Power’ is a gem among the three. The other two seem too preoccupied with forcing ironic endings rather than just letting their ordinariness lend them power. It was difficult for me to care about victimization unfolding without much depth of character supporting the irony. It’s laudable eisner chooses as his subject commonly unnoticed people, however the drama of the stories turns on extraordinary situations. I think his style would have been more moving if the stories were more mundane. His philosophic prefaces are a bit sophmoric, reaching for profound insight, yet not quite delivering anything insightful.
      I must admit i found the art disappointing. Given eisner’s pre-eminence in the craft, i’ll safely assume my lack of appreciation is my loss. It’s very different from the noir style i’d assume eisner had developed in ‘The Spirit’. I’ve never read anything by him before, and figured this might be a good place to start. i still don’t know if that’s the case, but these stories were well done enough that i’d like to check out his take on classic fables someday.       — by f, Jul 17, 2008.

    Invisible People: Winner of the 1993 Harvey Awards for "Best Writer" and "Best Cartoonist".

Genre: Comics, Graphic Novels,

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Invisible People

    Will Eisner colorist, cover, inker, letterer, penciler, writer
    Published by Kitchen Sink. 1992.

      With Invisible People (1993), Will Eisner casts a compassionate eye on those anonymous faces in every crowd, the "invisible people" we pass with indifference each day of our lives. Linked by a common theme, this trio of graphic novellas is told with the subtlety, irony and passion that have marked Eisner’s career as the dean of serious cartoonists.

      Eisner said of the project: "This book was written in anger. In 1991, I came upon an item in my local newspaper about the suicide of a poor woman, Carolyn Lamboly. Disabled, impoverished and alone, she had for over a year applied again and again for help from the community support system. But her case became lost in the county computer system and she had become an invisible person.

        "A few days before Christmas 1990 sick, alone and in despair, she hung herself.
        "Her body lay unclaimed in a funeral home for two months. She was finally buried in an unmarked grave in a public cemetery.
        "These are stories that grew out of my dismay."

      First published in 1993 by Kitchen Sink Press, the book was reissued in 2000 as part of The Will Eisner Library imprint by DC Comics. The book forms part of the 2006 hardcover collection Will Eisner’s New York: Life in the Big City published by W.W. Norton, together with The Building, New York: the Big City and City People Notebook.

About the Author:

    Will Eisner was born William Erwin Eisner on March 6, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York. By the time of his death on January 3, 2005, Will Eisner was recognized internationally as one of the giants in the field of sequential art, a term he coined. In a career that spanned nearly eight decades—from the dawn of the comic book to the advent of digital comics—Will Eisner was truly the ‘Orson Welles of comics’ and the ‘father of the Graphic Novel’. He broke new ground in the development of visual narrative and the language of comics and was the creator of The Spirit, John Law, Lady Luck, Mr. Mystic, Uncle Sam, Blackhawk, Sheena and countless others. During World War II, Will Eisner used the comic format to develop training and equipment maintenance manuals for the US Army. After the war this continued as the Army’s P.S. Magazine, which is still being produced today. Will Eisner taught Sequential Arts at the New York School of Visual Arts. The textbooks that he wrote based on his course are still bestsellers. In 1978, Will Eisner wrote A Contract with God, the first modern graphic novel. This was followed by almost 20 additional graphic novels over the following 25 years. The "Oscars" of the Comic Industry are called The Eisner Awards, and named after Will Eisner. The Eisners are presented annually before a packed ballroom at Comic-Con International in San Diego, America’s largest comics convention. Wizard magazine named Eisner "the most influential comic artist of all time." Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is based in good part on Eisner. In 2002, Eisner received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Federation for Jewish Culture, only the second such honor in the organization’s history, presented by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman.

Note: Stories from Will Eisner:

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http://festyy.com/wLbXOH — Invisible People 01 (1992)
http://festyy.com/wLbXOL — Invisible People 02 (1992)
http://festyy.com/wLbXOC — Invisible People 03 (1992)




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