Family Matter

Will Eisner’s A Family Matter (1998), a single-issue graphic novella from Kitchen Sink Press, explores the quiet, devastating unraveling of a middle-class family after the patriarch suffers a stroke. Written and illustrated entirely by Eisner in his late-career prime, it distills a lifetime of storytelling mastery into a compact, emotionally resonant drama. This work matters as a late-period example of Eisner’s gift for using the comics medium to examine ordinary human tragedy with empathy and precision.