A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories by Will Eisner

Though most comic shops and retail bookshops have at least one Will Eisner work in stock, it's uncommon that it's his incomparably important 1978 masterpiece, A Contract With God. A Contract With God isn't just a graphic novel; it's the graphic novel, the forefather of all self-contained comics novels that have required release outside of serialization.

Will Eisner created an entirely new form of artistic expression by delivering this seminal work to bookstores and selling it alongside the Joyce and the Chaucer, declaring unequivocally that comics can be books and should be regarded as more than throw-away pop culture entertainment, and the fact that one cannot walk into any Barnes & Noble and purchase this text is a tragedy.

Link to read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/861023