Title: The contract with God trilogy
Subtitle: life on Dropsie Avenue
First published: 2005
Description: This book joins three works by Will Eisner, all set around Dropsie Avenue in the Bronx (New York).
(1) Contract with God (1978), comprising four independent brief stories.
(2) A Life Force (1988), which follows events in Dropsie Avenue during the Great Depression years, and
(3) Dropsie Avenue (1995), where the story follows the neighborhood from the 1800s (farming community) to high-end suburb, its decline to a tenement community, the total breakdown and final rebuilding in the 1990s.
Subjects: Comic books, strips, Graphic novels, Immigrants, Tenement houses, Comics & graphic novels, general, Fiction
Places: New York (State), New York, Bronx
Time periods: 1930s, 1800-1990
LC classification: PN6727.E4 A6 2005