WILL EISNER: How to Start Reading His Comics!

A jaunt through comics trailblazer and maestro Will Eisner's greatest hits, with three (and a half!) different ways to sample his comics work for the first time.
Includes flip-through reviews and overviews of the Spirit, and the Contract with God trilogy (A Contract with God, A Life Force, and Dropsie Avenue), and features a couple of other W.W.Norton Will Eisner Library paperbacks, as well as three hardcover 'omnibus' editions (The Contract with God Trilogy; Life, in Pictures; and Will Eisner's New York: Life in the Big City).
Also included is a quick look at Will Eisner's Quarterly, a comics magazine from Kitchen Sink Press in the 1980s, and my personal favourite way to read Eisner (so far!)
Where to buy these books:
(in the USA)
The Best of the Spirit: amzn.to/2Jm1II7
The Spirit Femme Fatales: amzn.to/2GYLt5h
A Contract with God (2006 Norton paperback): amzn.to/2HclqVW
A Life Force (paperback):
amzn.to/2uSAbea
Dropsie Avenue (2006 Norton Paperback):
amzn.to/2GWZ796
The Complete Trilogy (2006 Norton hardcover):
amzn.to/2Gy0b3z
(in India):
The Best of the Spirit: amzn.to/2IwENZb
The Spirit Femme Fatales: amzn.to/2JiMIuk
A Contract with God (2006 Norton paperback): amzn.to/2H9COui
A Life Force (2006 Norton paperback): amzn.to/2q5V3JL
Dropsie Avenue (2006 Norton Paperback): amzn.to/2EkDGJB
The Complete Trilogy (2006 Norton hardcover): amzn.to/2q5ZC6P
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Music by Jimmy Fontanez, Media Right Productions from UA-cam Audio Library.
All images are used for review purposes only and belong to their respective copyright holders.

[@arindam_sen]

Wonderful! This was just the catalyst that I needed for checking out Eisner's works. Shall be on the look out for The Best of The Spirit and A Contract with God.

[@ftloc]

Arindam Sen Mission successful then! I hope you enjoy them!

[@KalleVilenius]

Contract with God trilogy, New York and Life in Pictures just made my shopping list.

[@ftloc]

You won’t regret it! Let us know what you think when done!

[@Carterofmars]

Excellent analysis.

[@ftloc]

Thank you!

[@MagicJulienBertone]

Thanks for the review!
These Norton hardcovers are some of my favourite books in my collection

[@ftloc]

Thank you and yes, aren't they lovely? 😁

[@paolomongon6616]

Its funny...I was a sailor on a ship out at sea. We had a ship library stocked by the USO. I found both Best of and Femmes Fatales collections of The Spirit there and quickly became a big fan.

[@ftloc]

How lovely; thanks so much for sharing that! Did you ever pick up any Spirit of 'your own'?

[@paolomongon6616]

@@ftloc Just those two tpbs. I do most of my reading online.

[@Johnrap]

Thank you for this excellent video. Please make more.

[@ftloc]

Thank you! Do you mean make more 'How To Start Reading...' videos? Or just more videos in general?
I have a 'How to get started reading Usagi Yojimbo' video here: ua-cam.com/video/Dv2PEv-ZLEw/v-deo.html if interested! Cheers!

[@AnthonyTheManiac]

Love the channel man

[@ftloc]

Thank you so very much! Long may that continue!

[@andrewcutts7416]

I've been a fan of Will for years. A great choice for starters. Once you get it, you will be hooked for life.

[@ftloc]

I agree!

[@alexandergapour1253]

Sheena is probably his best work

[@sam.s.g]

Came back here after your two latest videos (don't know why, just felt like listening to you talk about Eisner) and I really do have to give "A contract with God" another chance.
By the way, the Spirit Archive hardcovers are all available in a comic shop I frequent, but in Spanish, which is a shame.
Great video, as always.

[@ftloc]

I LOVE the idea of folks revisiting my older videos, in spite of how some things in them may make me cringe today. I do try (not always successfully) to make my videos as resistant to the passage of time, so your feedback on them would be great!
I did manage to pick up one bargain-bin copy of the Spirit Archives, and as wonderful as the archiving spirit is for those (see what I did there) I was disappointed in the size, which seemed smaller than a regular issue! Is that the case with the editions you see or am I misremembering?

[@sam.s.g]

@@ftloc Yeah, I looked it up and the Spanish hardcovers are 17 by 26 cm (which is small by European standards).

[@danilomendonca5435]

Hugs from Brazil

[@ftloc]

Right back at you from India!

[@AvengCalifornication]

I love your channnel brother

[@ftloc]

Many thanks; long may it continue! 😁

[@user-fv6hi4gr9w]

На русском