OPEN A BOOK,OPEN THE WORLD
作者：Eisner, Will/ Gardner, Jared(ed.)
出版社：Norton
出版日期：2022.12.13
ISBN：9780393284836
書號：30264151
裝訂：平裝
定價：$919
A Caotract with God 於1978出版，書中收錄的四部短篇漫畫由美國漫畫家 Will Eisner 根據自身童年的回憶創作而成。Eisner 在這本書以寫實的畫風結合小說般的文字展現絕佳的說故事技巧，並跨越了漫畫與文學間的高牆，將「圖像小說」帶至大眾的眼前。
本書收錄 A Caotract with God(1978) 中的 A Caotract with God 和 The Street Singer 和其他四篇作品，並附上 Will Eisner 的採訪、美國俄亥俄州立大學英語系教授 Jared Gardner 的引言以及各界的評論，帶領讀者深入了解這位美國漫畫大師。
“An essential introductory collection to comics’ most essential figure. Weaving together the works that helped assure comics’ status as a literary medium, the anthology combines Eisner’s slice-of-life masterpieces with an incisive editorial introduction and carefully curated scholarship to provide crucial insight into how comics work, what they mean, and what they can do.” ―Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University and author of American Comics: A History
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
•Jared Gardner’s insightful introduction and explanatory notes.
•Generous selections from four of Will Eisner’s major graphic novels and story collections, carefully chosen with student readers in mind.
•Will Eisner’s interviews and published writing on comics and the graphic novel genre from 1978 to 2000.
•Thirteen wide-ranging reviews and assessments of Eisner’s works.
•Critical essays by Andrew J. Kunka, Paul Williams, Jeremy Dauber, Greg M. Smith, and Derek Parker Royal.
•A chronology of Will Eisner’s life and work and a selected bibliography.
