A Contract with God was one of the most popular graphic novels in its time. Personally, I loved Eisner’s art style in the graphic novel. His use of art style and theme would catch anyone’s attention in a second.
This kind of comic book art style carries the reader through
the story with its use of vignettes and line weight. Eisner utilizes a lot of
vignettes and doesn’t really focus on creating panel artwork that are very
structured and geometric. Eisner uses the vignettes to his advantage to create
that a sense of flow and movement while reading the story that keeps you going
from page to page. His amazing use of line weight is beautiful. Eisner
manipulates different hatching, cross-hatching, and bold inking to catch the
reader’s attention. The bold ink indicates a hierarchy between characters or is
normally the focal point in the page. A
Contract with God also has really good composition in all of the pages.
Eisner’s use of bold line weight and loose panels create a good sense of unity
and well-drawn composition. As always
appealing compositions accompanied with creative line weight and great inking
would interest any reader.
In general, sad themes in stories tend to grab more
attention than happier themes. When Will Eisner picked a “young, deeply
religious Hasidic Jew Frimme Herse” to write about in a super sad depressing
setting people would be more attracted to it than if he were a happy-go-lucky
Jew that got everything he needed. Audiences love drama and tend to dwell on
the negatives, unfortunately. Also, Will Eisner’s storytelling abilities are
amazing.
A Contract with God
has changed the perspective on graphic novels. Before it was published graphic
novels weren’t all that popular. When Will Eisner created this novel, it really
boosted the name and creation of the graphic novel to “infinity and beyond.”
Overall, the comic was really good. I loved the artwork and
I can only wish to be as successful as Will Eisner in creating and writing
graphic novels. Definite read!
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