A LIFE FORCE (Signed & Numbered Ltd. Hardcover Edition)

EISNER, WILL

ISBN 10: 0878160388 / ISBN 13: 9780878160389

Published by Kitchen Sink Press, Princeton, WI, 1988

About this Item

Hardcover - 1st. Print - Signed & Numbered Ltd. Edition No. 93 of 1250 - FINE in Illustrated Boards / No DJ as issued - Set during the Depression, A LIFE FORCE tells the hard-luck story of a tenement dweller living in the same neighborhood that served the setting for A CONTRACT WITH GOD. Eisner's everyman, Jacob Shtarkah, and his family and neighbors come to life in this moving urban portrait.

Seller Inventory # 008428

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A LIFE FORCE (Signed & Numbered Ltd. Hardcover Edition)
• Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press, Princeton, WI
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878160388
• ISBN 13: 9780878160389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: EISNER, WILL
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ as Issued
• Signed: Signed by Author/Illustrator
• Seller catalogs:
  • AMAZING COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

About this title

Synopsis

“Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him.”―John Updike

Called “a masterpiece” by R. Crumb, A Life Force chronicles not only the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of socialist politics through the depiction of the protagonist, Jacob Shtarkah, whose existential search reflected Eisner’s own lifelong struggle.

About the Author

Born in New York City, Will Eisner (1917–2005) was the author of the legendary comic strip The Spirit, as well as fifteen graphic novels and three influential instructional textbooks. The comic industry’s top awards, the Eisner Awards, are named in his honor.