Contract With God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue Zainab Akhtar — Mattie Lubchansky

— Mattie Lubchansky

with a cast of likeable characters

"Sean Phillips and Ed Brubaker represent the gold standard for comics noir—brutal

“The tone of [Jerusalem] is by turns gently humorous and dumbfounded

Contract With God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue Zainab Akhtar — Mattie LubchanskyBy Will Eisner. Published by W. W. Norton. Hardcover, 528 pages, B&W, 2005 (originally published 1978, 1988 & 1995) Published quietly in 1978, Will Eisner's revolutionary literary work A Contract With God marked the invention of the modern graphic novel, took on a life of its own, and inspired a generation of "sequential artists." Will Eisner (19172005) saw himself as "a graphic witness reporting on life, death, heartbreak, and the never ending