response #5

I've only heard of Will Eisner due to The Spirit, and not by the more recent film based off of that particular graphic novel, but I've never ever heard of his other work such as A Contract with God. The first difference of his work from others is that his comics are longer as they are graphic novels, the second, unlike most comics, would be that the subject and theme of the novel is somewhat auto-biographical and based off of experiences the Eisner has had. The style from much older detailed comics is much cleaner when it comes to color and line work. Although I think that A Contract with God has more of a scratchy-sketchy, more unfinished look and style to it. I also see that he sticks to the same censorship and age group of young adult to adult as most other comics during the time. Then as for Craig Thompson and his graphic novel Blankets, I'd have to say that I've never heard of him until now. Blankets is almost like Eisner's A Contract with God, but is more biographical due to the fact that this graphic novel has to do with Thompson's childhood and young adulthood and has Craig himself as the main character. The style, I think, is much different than most comics and novels during this time, in that it seems to be like more storybook illustration. I think this also makes the characters more innocent looking as the story is being told. I also noticed that for color pallet it's just true black and true white and there are really no grays, and the line work is very thick and more simple than most around this time.