Overview
Comic books have captivated readers since the Famous Funnies of 1930s and have remained popular ever since, even through the censorious 1950s when they were considered to be corrupting the nation's youth. But with the advent of the graphic novel in the late 1970s-such as Will Eisner's early classic, A Contract with God-this form of reading entertainment truly came of age as a revealing literature of our culture.
