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Title: Fagin the Jew by Will Eisner ISBN: 0-385-51009-8 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Okay, but not his best . . .
Comment: I really like Eisner's straightforward graphic novels. He's much more concerned with telling the story than with inventive layouts, cinematic artwork, and impenetrable plot-lines, as so many of his younger contemporaries are. That said, I'm afraid I'm not as impressed with this effort as with, say, _A Contract with God._ This is a retelling of Dickens's _Oliver Twist_ from the point of view of the much-loathed Fagin, mentor of street urchins in the ways of London ghetto survival, with emphasis on his early life and character development. The thing is, even knowing how he developed into the creep he became, even sympathizing to some extent with his lousy home life and bad breaks, there's still not much to like about Fagin. Although there's not much to like about most of his contemporaries, either. For that matter, Oliver himself, revealed in adulthood as a rather smugly successful barrister, also comes across as less than admirable. If this is the point Eisner wanted to make, he has succeeded, but I had hoped for something psychologically a bit deeper.
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Title: Yossel, April 19, 1943: A Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Joe Kubert ISBN: 074347516X Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Contract with God : And Other Tenement Stories by Will Eisner ISBN: 1563896745 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: To the Heart of the Storm (Eisner, Will. Will Eisner Library.) by Will Eisner ISBN: 1563896796 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Sundiata: A Legend of Africa by Will Eisner ISBN: 1561633402 Publisher: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Last Day in Vietnam by Will Eisner ISBN: 1569715009 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 12 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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