This new hardcover presents a quartet of graphic works (New York, The Building, City People Notebook, and Invisible People) and features what Neil Gaiman describes as "tales as brutal, as uncaring as the city itself." From ancient buildings "barnacled with laughter and stained with tears" to the subways, "humorless iron reptiles, clacking stupidly on a webbing of graceful steel rails," Will Eisner's New York includes cameo appearances by the author himself several new illustrations sketched by Eisner, posthumously inked by Peter Poplaski and three previously unpublished "out-takes"-a treasure for any Eisner fan, and sure to become a collectible. With an unparalleled eye for stories and expressive illustration, Will Eisner, the master and pioneer of American comics art, presents graphic fictions greatest celebration of the Big Apple. New York Donor bostonpubliclibrary External-identifier urn:oclc:record:1036796426 urn:lcp:newyork00will:lcpdf:e87db421-5138-4094-a6d7-c8a250d9f070 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ). No illustrator evoked the melancholy duskiness of New York City as expressively as Eisner, who knew the city from the bottom up. Will Eisners New York, the big city by Eisner, Will. With an unparalleled eye for stories and expressive illustration, Will Eisner, the master and pioneer of American comics art, presents graphic fiction's greatest celebration of the Big Apple. Eisner has acknowledged that during most of the 1950s his activity was devoted largely to designing the material, selling business, developing concepts, marketing at the same time doing a certain amount of creative work.
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