- Hardcover: 68 pages
- Publisher: Kitchen Sink Pr (July 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0878166211
- ISBN-13: 978-0878166213
- Product Dimensions: 28.6 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
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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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Each of these powerful graphic novels confirms Will Eisner as a master of the genre. In this trio of classics, 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. "Life on Another Planet" places American life within a broader perspective, chronicling the lives of scientists, politicians, spies and nobodies as they come to terms with the discovery of extraterrestrial life: in reaching out to other galaxies, Eisner's characters ultimately find themselves focusing within. A powerful portrayal of Jewish life in the New York City of Eisner's youth, "Minor Miracles" encourages similar introspection as it examines how luck and coincidence converge in everyday life in ways that, with hindsight, seem miraculous.
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Paying Attention to A Family Matter, April 7 2000
By Martin Fass - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Family Matter (Paperback)
This is an important, serious book, and it is also an enormously entertaining one. I am ordering it again because it demands to be read more than once, and to be saved, and to be offered to friends. If a friend should not return it, all the more reason to buy another copy, perhaps two or three, and keep things moving!Mr. Eisner is unknown to most readers, but if you just possibly were alive and an avid follower of the greatest comics during the beautiful period of the fifties, you know who he is, you used to dream about The Spirit, and you will delight in reading as much of his work as you can. What better reason to try and live forever.
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Families are complex, Dec 31 2011
By Caroline Lim - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Family Matter (Paperback)
Another graphic novel hit by Will Eisner, this one takes a look at family dynamics. A 90-year old man is confined to a wheelchair after a stroke and one his daughters invites the rest of the family over to celebrate his birthday.As we are introduced to each of his sons and daughters, we're given an initial glimpse into their current lives. When they each come over to the party, we're given a glimpse into their past relationship with their father. Family relationships can be complicated, and there is none better than Mr Eisner at exposing the darkness in the souls of men and women while offering a glimmer of light.
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