The late Will Eisner, the great American master of comics, regarded this, his last work, as his most powerful. This nonfiction book in graphic-novel style examines the outrageous fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which purports to be the blueprint by Jewish leaders to take over the world. Hatched as an anti-Semitic plot by the Tsar's secret police to deflect widespread criticism of the Russian government, the forgery, first published...

A graphic novel that traces events in the life of one family over the course of twenty-four hours, bringing to light secrets of abuse, greed, incest, and other dark memories.

Called "a masterpiece" by R. Crumb, A Life Force chronicles not only the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of socialist politics through the depiction of the protagonist, Jacob Shtarkah, whose existential search reflected Eisner's own lifelong struggle.

Inspired by prejudice, assimilation, and anti-Semitism in the western world prior to World War II takes readers from eighteenth-century New York, to Vienna during World War I, to Depression-era America.

A commonplace clerk turns private eye. A lifelong failure attempts a marathon. An octogenarian hitman tries to settle an old score. The seven exceptional short works gathered here range from the grim to the hilarious, narrating the lives of the good, the bad, and the eccentric. Featuring "A Sunset in Sunshine City," Eisner's very personal ode to memory and nostalgia inspired by his transition to retirement in Florida, this book displays the artist's...

A graphic novel by Will Eisner about a young man who dreams of creating comic books in the 1930s.

Character sketches and timeless snapshots of the eccentric denizens of an American city reflect Eisner's comic genius and powers of observation.