The Contract with God TrilogyA Contract with God, originally published in 1978, was the first graphic novel: the prototype? along with Life Force and Dropsie Avenue? or such seminal works as Maus and Persepolis. Set during the Great Depression, this literary trilogy, assembled in one volume for the first time, presents a treasure house of now near mythic stories that fictionally illustrate the bittersweet tenement life of Eisner's youth. With nearly two dozen new illustrations