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Title: To the Heart of the Storm by Will Eisner ISBN: 1-56389-679-6 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Resonating; Eisner's best GN
Comment: Simply, Will Eisner best graphic novel. "To the heart of the storm" TP, provoked a personal piece of my inner senses like no other GN had in a while. Its like walking through a personal story of myself. The book is a must read for anyone who's family & his self tend to be resonated with the book's central theme-- middle-class allegory.
Like most of Will Eisner GN, he like to tells story focusing on a middle class family.However this book differ in many ways, one of such is telling a more focus & personal yarn. He portray the family cast members with their respective distinctive, good-natured characters. The story is very true-to-life and allegorical about a middle class family pursuing their day-to-day existence and tackling life's reality & difficult obstacles head-on. It deals with topics such as finding work, earning money & money difficulties, religion prejudism (anti-sematism), and most importantly, this book theme is centered on -- family togetherness, familial responsiblities, and familial bondings. The story is unfurled creatively via flashbacks, in a chronological sequences. Willie , the main protagonist, introspecting about his life exhausting from every angle, fromgrowing up on childhood up to who he is today, a young man in his late 20's or early 30's, while riding a troop train going to his destination as a draftee to a training camp to be trained as a soldier or the likes, for an upcoming, imminent war.
Will Eisner had contributed a lot to this medium. In fact, his spearhead GN "A contract with God" is considered critically as the first modern GN. He is "The Man" who pave the ways for today and upcoming creators of GN and certainly he earned all the respect, adulations and accolades from people all walks of life, from his peers, his critics, & others.This is only my small way of repaying in some form, a gratitude to the man who sacrifices and defends us from his detractors.
"To the heart of the storm" TP, features B&W art, though beautiful; good, thick coarse white paper; about 8.5" X 11" size(slightly bigger than a comic book, about 1" inch bigger in width & lenght); softcover; & apparently the binding seems not durable enough for long-term keeping, but passable, nevertheless.
Highly recommended for readers who inclined to agree with my piece. A good buy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Truly Remarkable
Comment: Powerful. Excellent comic in all regards. Beautiful art and engaging characters/story. This is yet another triumph by the great Will Eisner. Mandatory reading for any comic book fan.
Rating: 5
Summary: An amazing, stirring piece of work...
Comment: Will Eisner tells a thinly veiled autobiographical tale of the anti-Semitic attitudes that lurked in the U.S. even as America headed off to war against the Nazis in Europe. (Though it's never stated in this book, the only *official* aid the U.S. gave German Jews was to let about a thousand immigrate here during the war. Everything else came afterward.)
Through the eyes of a son headed to war, we see his upbringing in various New York neighborhoods, and his parents' struggles to make ends meet in an economy where, even more than today, ethnicity could mean the difference between success and failure. His parents' tales show that things have been even worse in the past, though; from an uncle on his mother's side who changed his religion and cut himself off from the family to get into medical school, to his father's encounters in pre-WWI Vienna with a pro-Nazi artist.
Maybe the most compelling and heartbreaking thread, however, is the relationship between Willie and his best friend, Duke. From a backyard fight, through a building project, and then a meeting as adults, we see the harsh reality of how things so often work out, but also the hope for what can be... and why an artist, just starting in his career, might make the decision to not fight his draft notice and risk losing it all.
Brilliant stuff that warms the heart even as it sometimes hits like a knife in the back. Eisner is at his best here in art, in writing, and in storytelling.
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Title: A Contract With God: And Other Testament Stories by Will Eisner ISBN: 1563896745 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Fagin the Jew : A Graphic Novel by Will Eisner ISBN: 0385510098 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Dreamer, The by Will Eisner ISBN: 1563896788 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Invisible People by Will Eisner ISBN: 1563896818 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Minor Miracles Dc Comic/Will Eisner Library by Will Eisner ISBN: 1563897555 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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