Will Eisner is one of the twentieth century's great American artists, a man who pioneered the field of comic arts. Here, in his classic Comics and Sequential Art, he refines the art of graphic storytelling into clear, concise principles that every cartoonist, comic artist, writer, and filmmaker meeds to know. Adapted from Eisner's landmark course at New York's School of Visual Arts, Comics and Sequential Art is an essential text filled with invaluable theories and easy-to-use techniques. Eisner reveals here the fundamentals of graphic storytelling. He addresses dialogue, anatomy, framing, and...
Will Eisner is one of the twentieth century's great American artists, a man who pioneered the field of comic arts. Here, in his classic Comics and Seq...
Designed and outlined by Will Eisner before his death in 2005, this posthumous masterwork, the third and final book in the Will Eisner Instructional Series, finally reveals the secrets of Eisner s own techniques and theories of movement, body mechanics, facial expressions, and posture: the key components of graphic storytelling. From his earliest comics, including the celebrated Spirit, to his pioneering graphic novels, Eisner understood that the proper use of anatomy is crucial to effective storytelling. His control over the mechanical and intuitive skills necessary for its application set...
Designed and outlined by Will Eisner before his death in 2005, this posthumous masterwork, the third and final book in the Will Eisner Instructional S...
Will Eisner was present at the dawn of comics. In the 1940s, he pushed the boundaries of the medium with his acclaimed weekly comic strip The Spirit, and with the publication of A Contract with God in 1978, he created a new medium altogether: the graphic novel. It was unlike anything seen before, heralding an era when serious cartoonists were liberated from the limiting confines of the comic strip. Eisner's work was a shining example of what comics could be: as inventive, moving, and complex as any literary art form.
Eisner considered himself "a graphic witness...
Will Eisner was present at the dawn of comics. In the 1940s, he pushed the boundaries of the medium with his acclaimed weekly comic strip The S...
Před mnoha lety Will Eisner marně hledal nakladatele pro své revoluční dílo, Smlouvu s Bohem. Komiksový román nakonec vyšel dosti nenápadně v roce 1978 a až později si získal obrovský věhlas, takže přinesl uspokojení nejen samotnému autorovi, ale také se stal inspirací pro celou generaci sekvenčních umělců. Will Eisner sám sebe popisuje jako výtvarně nadaného svědka, který podává hlášení o životě, smrti, utrpení a nikdy nekončícím boji. Smlouva s Bohem vyšla, když mu bylo už jedenašedesát let, a přesto se její vydání stalo zásadním...
Před mnoha lety Will Eisner marně hledal nakladatele pro své revoluční dílo, Smlouvu s Bohem. Komiksový román nakonec vyšel dosti nenápadn...
