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This powerful graphic novel confirms Will Eisner as a master of the genre.
In this classic graphic novel, Will Eisner’s pen cuts an expansive swath through all aspects of the human condition. A Family Matter starts close to home, following a family as it gathers to observe the ninetieth birthday of its patriarch. While they must decide how best to provide for him, he ends up making a crucial choice of his own."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Born in New York City, Will Eisner (1917–2005) was the author of the legendary comic strip The Spirit, as well as fifteen graphic novels and three influential instructional textbooks. The comic industry’s top awards, the Eisner Awards, are named in his honor.
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Eisner, who created the masked crime-fighter the Spirit in 1940, is one of the few early comic-books veterans still active and certainly the only one turning out new work more ambitious than the genre tales for which he is best known. Eisner now mostly creates graphic novels depicting Jewish life in America. In the latest, family members prepare to observe their patriarch's ninetieth birthday as he sits silent and paralyzed after a stroke. Eisner portrays the clan's ambitions, pretensions, and disappointments broadly. At the gathering, as long-standing resentments surface, family members face deciding how to provide for the old man, and he makes a crucial choice of his own. Family Matter lacks the scale of some of Eisner's newer work and features bluntly one-dimensional characters. But its depiction of how families are held together by a force "that sometimes seems to be neither love nor loyalty" rings true. Moreover, Eisner's drawing here, less slick and dramatic than that of his prime, has an agreeable looseness that helps convey the story movingly. Gordon Flagg
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
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