![]() I exorcised my rage at a deity that I believe violated my faith and deprived my lovely 16-year-old child of her life at the very flowering of it.” ![]() ![]() Eisner has called this story “an exercise in personal agony.” When he wrote it, he was grieving the death of his daughter from leukemia. The story is an unfolding of his life in light of that contract, and the agony and confusion that arises when tragedy invades his life. In the title story, the main character is a deeply religious Hasidic Jew named Frimme Hirsch who carves a contract with God on a stone tablet. A Contract with God is a short story cycle revolving around Jewish immigrants living in a New York City tenement during the early 20th century. Of his many achievements, perhaps his greatest was A Contract with God (1978), which popularized the idea of the “graphic novel” and helped to establish the potential for comic books to be an art form rather than a disposable product marketed to adolescents. ![]() Will Eisner, who died in 2005 at the age of 87, was an influential cartoonist and comic book writer. Anglican Church of Canada, Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture ![]()
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