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# Will Eisner's New York: Life in the Big City

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Will Eisner's New York: Life in the Big City
  

*by C***Y on Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2010*

Will Eisner's opus of modern and urban existence in New York possesses a certain thematic and also, in the simplest essence, artistic quality not present in his former work. While his more prominent cartoons (it would seem, the entire Spirit comic strip narrative) focuses more on the kinetic energy of an action movie-style plot, where there are overt heroes and villains. New York falls into more emotional territory, and in many ways possesses a higher polish, making this sprawling narrative about city life in New York a fresh new breath of creative genius.That's not to say Eisner doesn't employ his brilliant mastery of sequential movement or doesn't bring forth pure storytelling dynamism into this book. Oh, no, he does bring those in a big way. New York quite simply is the epitome of how people tick in the Big Apple, and Eisner does not, if ever, hold back on the effort and drive to tell a sublime story.Split into numerous vignettes and compiled from four previously published collections, one doesn't so much as read this book but get pulled into so many facets of the New York experience that it's not a laughing matter anymore. The treasure of Avenue C, the starting vignette of sorts, is a perfect example of how even a simple, unassuming thing like a gutter drain can be the basis for a recurring narrative. Eisner achieves this sweeping piece of adventure, told in bite-sized episodes (one especially poignant one involves a mugger who sees the convenience of disposing his knife into the drain) with such simplicity and greatness, that one would be amazed when the resultant panel, depicting the thorough search of the scene by the police, delivers the punch. And one doesn't even realize that The Weapon works on the New-York-has-a-high-crime-rate level, while still functioning as a perfect, almost to a science, standalone story.A street band, The Pearly Buzzards, finds joy in playing at different locations, a young, attractive New York female experiences a mild bout of uncertainty as she takes a little too long to place an important letter into the mailbox, a metaphor of citizens within windowed apartments aptly named Prisons, and then the true meat of the collections appears with the latter material. The most interesting of the lot would be Mortal Combat, an unprecedented take on the prevalent invisibility of one's existence in the huge city. If you have not one, but a series of tightly wrought vignettes like this, complete with creative commentaries at some points, and each one as intriguing and professional as the last, it becomes a `museum' of how sequential art should be done.Which is how Eisner establishes his legacy. The Spirit is how you should do a continuous mystery epic. Comics and Sequential Art is a How-To book for comics, perfected.  New York, however, is the culmination, of storytelling in the sequential form. It is very much like weary Eisner waking up one morning and deciding to impose his craft upon the short story format. One can almost imagine him saying these imaginary words, "Lets see if I can create something that's never been done before...and thus create history."

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Slice of Life
  

*by @***T on Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2022*

Great condition, such a nice snapshot of 1980 Manhattan by one of the greatest visual storytellers of all time.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    DAMN
  

*by T***I on Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2019*

DAMN what a journey that was, wish I could give it 6 stars. All those little stories and even smaller details in them, every little piece of paper, every little gesture... No wonder when they want to commend a good comic they give the Eisner Award.Turns out the real New York is much closer to Istanbul than the NY in American movies or series... I thank Eisner for helping us establish that mental bridge between lives.

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