Will Eisner

A single-volume edition of a classic Great Depression graphic novel series documents its role in launching the graphic novel as an art form, in a collection that fictionally depicts its creator's bittersweet struggles with a vengeful God within a tenement district.

The human machine -- Muscles activate movement -- Draftsmanship -- All living things want to survive -- The language of posture and gesture -- Human emotion -- Aggressive physical action -- Talking pictures -- Physical communication-- Using the expressive capacity of the human body -- Posture and power -- Anatomy, staging, and the total composition -- Anatomy and sterotype -- Physiognomy -- Acting--in practice.