A WILL EISNER BIBLIOGRAPHY
A complete compendium listing all of Eisner’s work would be a book in and of itself, if it’s even possible to separate his efforts from those of his various studios. Here are the key volumes in his career:
The Building. Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1987. Reissued by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2007.
City People Notebook. Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1989. Reissued by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2007.
Comics & Sequential Art. Tamarac, FL: Poorhouse Press, 1985. Reissued by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008.
A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories. New York: Baronet Press, 1978. Reissued by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006.
The Dreamer. Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1986. Reissued by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008.
Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood. Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1995. Reissued by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006.
Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008.
Fagin the Jew. New York: Doubleday, 2003. Reissued by Dark Horse Books, 2013.
A Family Matter. Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1998. Reissued by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2009.
Gleeful Guide to Communicating with Plants to Help Them Grow. Tamarac, FL: Poorhouse Press, 1974.
Gleeful Guide to Living with Astrology: An Everyday Manual for Coping with People, Events, and Afflictions through Astrology. Researched and edited by Ivan Klapper. Tamarac, FL: Poorhouse Press, 1974.
Gleeful Guide to Occult Cookery: The Saucerer’s Apprentice. Tamarac, FL: Poorhouse Press, 1974.
Graphic Storytelling & Visual Narrative. Tamarac, FL: Poorhouse Press, 1996. Reissued by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008.
How to Avoid Death & Taxes … and Live Forever. Tamarac, FL: Poorhouse Press, 1975.
Incredible Facts, Amazing Statistics, Monumental Trivia. Edited by Ivan Klapper. Research by Jason Hanson. Tamarac, FL: Poorhouse Press, 1974.
Invisible People. Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1993. Reissued by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2007.
Last Day in Vietnam: A Memory. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2000.
The Last Knight: An Introduction to Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. New York: Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine Publishing, 2000.
A Life Force. Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1988. Reissued by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006.
Life on Another Planet. Introduction by James Morrow. Originally published as Signal from Space. Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1995. Reissued by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2009.
Minor Miracles. New York: DC Comics, 2000. Reissued by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2009.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville. New York: Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine Publishing, 2001.
The Name of the Game. New York: DC Comics, 2001. Reissued by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008.
New York: The Big City. Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1986. Reissued by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2007.
101 Outer Space Jokes. New York: Baronet Publishing, 1979.
The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Introduction by Umberto Eco. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2005.
The Princess and the Frog by the Grimm Brothers. New York: Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine Publishing, 1999.
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 1–26. New York: DC Comics, 2000–2009.
The Spirit Archives, Vol. 27: The New Adventures. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2009.
Sundiata: A Legend of Africa. New York: Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine Publishing, 2002.
To the Heart of the Storm. Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1991. Reissued by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008.
The White Whale: An Introduction to Moby Dick. Tamarac, FL: Story Shop, 1991.
Will Eisner Reader: Seven Graphic Stories by a Comics Master. Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1991. Reissued by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008.
Will Eisner Sketchbook. Introduction by Alan Edelstein. Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1995.
The Will Eisner Sketchbook. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2003.
PRINCIPAL SOURCES
Virtually every work touching on comics history discusses Will Eisner and his contributions. The volumes particularly consulted for this book, or quoted from, include:
Andelman, Bob. Will Eisner: A Spirited Life. Milwaukie, OR: M Press, 2005.
Benson, John (editor). Panels no. 1, 1979.
Brownstein, Charles (interview conducted by). Eisner/Miller. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2005.
Cooke, Andrew D. (director). Will Eisner: Portrait of A Sequential Artist. DVD. Montilla Pictures, 2010.
Cooke, Jon B. Comic Book Artist no. 6. Marietta, GA: Top Shelf Productions, November 2005.
Couch, N. C. Christopher, and Stephen Weiner. The Will Eisner Companion: The Pioneering Spirit of the Father of the Graphic Novel. New York: DC Comics, 2006.
Eisner, Will. PS Magazine: The Best of The Preventive Maintenance Monthly. Selected and with an overview by Eddie Campbell. Preface by Ann Eisner. Introduction by General Peter J. Schoomaker, USA (Ret.). New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2011.
Eisner, Will. Will Eisner’s Shop Talk. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2001.
Inge, M. Thomas (editor). Will Eisner: Conversations. Conversations with Comic Artists Series. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
Schumacher, Michael. Will Eisner: A Dreamer’s Life in Comics. New York: Bloomsbury, 2010.
Steranko, James. The Steranko History of Comics, Vol. 2. Reading, PA: Supergraphics, 1972.
Yronwode, Catherine, and Denis Kitchen. The Art of Will Eisner. Introduction by Jules Feiffer. Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Press, 1982.