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Will Eisner's *A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories* is a landmark work of sequential art storytelling, presented here in this 1985 Kitchen Sink Press edition from the Will Eisner Library. The cover, illustrated entirely by Eisner himself, sets a poignant, rain-soaked tone — a hunched figure in a yellow coat grips a railing on a gloomy tenement stoop, battered by a downpour against a brooding cityscape. It's an immediately evocative image that captures the weight of urban life with the kind of expressive, atmospheric draftsmanship that made Eisner one of the most distinctive voices in the medium.
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Frimme Hersh, en route from Europe to America, writes a contract with God on a stone. He promises to live a pious, devout life, doing good deeds if God allows him safe passage to his new home. One day, having settled in his New York tenement home, Frimme finds a basket with a baby girl in it upon his doorstep. Frimme tries to raise the girl to the best of his ability, but she dies tragically from an illness at a young age. Filled with bitter rage, Frimme spits upon his contract, throws it out the window and decides to become a successful businessman.
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