The Name of the Game - Hardcover

Eisner, Will

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1563898659 ISBN 13: 9781563898655

Publisher: Dc Comics, 2002

Synopsis

Chronicles the struggle for power and privilege of the Arnheim, Ober, and Kayn families as each tries to ensure its family's future with marriage and children.

About this title

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.

From Booklist:

Eisner, a comics creator since the 1930s (he is best known for the masked crimefighter the Spirit), has turned in recent years to depicting Jewish life in America in the first half of the twentieth century. This multigenerational saga follows the socially prominent Arnheim family for nearly a century as they parlay a corset-manufacturing firm into a lucrative stock brokerage. Boorish son Conrad marries the daughter of a wealthy Midwest banker, giving the Arnheims access to capital; in trade, the bride's family gets prestige. The characters are all one-dimensional, and there isn't much nuance in the story, which relies on such staples of melodrama as sudden heart attacks and a no-good, alcoholic younger son. This is pretty old-fashioned stuff, reflecting a sensibility somehow appropriate to the period and subject. Eisner's current drawing style is less illustrative than before but more expressive; he now achieves his greatest effects through eloquent facial expressions and dramatic body language. In addition to libraries' graphic novel collections, Eisner's recent work should be considered for Jewish-studies collections. Gordon Flagg
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dc Comics
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1563898659
• ISBN 13: 9781563898655
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 167