Will Eisner: A Comics Biography:

“A heartfelt and absorbing biography of a master cartoonist, fittingly told in arresting images.” - Kirkus Reviews

“Weiner and Mazur have crafted an affecting and often inspiring primer for Eisner newcomers and a respectful tribute for fans, made all the more poignant by being told in the medium Eisner championed.” -Library Journal

“The art, in keeping with Eisner’s own realistic and expressive style, uses heavy contrasts to capture a wide range of emotions in a life filled with humor, sadness, stress, and pride.” - Foreward

“Told in sharp, evocative panels, the book mirrors the very storytelling techniques Eisner helped invent: cinematic pacing, emotional depth, and a respect for the graphic novel reader’s intelligence.“ -Unpacked

The 101 Best Graphic Novels

“Besides defining the graphic novel (a collection of comic strips, a collected comics periodical story arc or a comics story written to be published as a full-length book), Weiner offers capsule reviews of the works he has chosen and gives each a code indicating its reading level (children, all ages, adult).” - Publishers Weekly

The 101 Best Graphic Novels and contributed to Library Journal and School Library Journal, has produced a brief but pithy and fascinating history that includes as much information on social development as it does on the metamorphosis of the once-lowly comic book-itself a transformation of the comic strip into longer stories-into the respected graphic novel. - Forward

Faster Than A Speeding Bullet

A comics historian offers a short but pithy history of the industry and how it led to the format known as the graphic novel, a term first coined by Will Eisner in the late 1970s. - School Library Journey

The Rise of the Graphic Novel is an essay on the short history of the graphic novel and the relatively long history of comic strips and books, the grandparent and parent of author Stephen Weiner's subject - Rambles