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4 unusual facts about A Contract with God


A Contract with God

The idea that God must uphold his end of the first commandment has been a subject of works such as Elie Wiesel's play The Trial of God (1979), made in response to the atrocities Wiesel witnessed at Auschwitz.

He abandons his faith, shaves his beard, and lives a life as a miserly businessman in a penthouse with a gentile mistress.

Eisner's status as a cartoonist grew after A Contract with God appeared, and his influence was augmented by his time as a teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he expounded his theories of the medium.

Life force

A Life Force, the second volume in Will Eisner's A Contract with God trilogy about the New York Jewish community in the 1930s and 1940s



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