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A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories

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graphic novels

  • Art Spiegelman, 2008.
    In graphic novel: The first graphic novels

    …graphic novel, many hold Eisner’s A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories (1978) to be one of the most important early examples of the graphic novel in the United States. Books like Eisner’s made clear the demand for more sophisticated comics, and the result was something of a boom…

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