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Invisible People (Will Eisner Library)

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The genius of graphic books has done it again. With a combination of pictures that genuinely are worth a thousand words and a brilliant dialog, this collection contains the stories of 3 individuals, a spinster librarian, a schlub with miraculous healing powers who can still not make much of his life, and a presser whose mistaken obituary leads to the downfall of what little luck he had. Eisner is able to display these lives with a poignancy that makes us care about these "invisible people" in way that we don't about the real life ones we pass by.

3 short graphic stories by Will Eisner about a spinster librarian who realized that at 40 years of age, she'd lost half her life by taking care of her ailing father, a laundry presser who was pronounced dead because of an error by the obituary clerk and the ramifications to every aspect of his life as a result of this error, and a man with healing powers but who couldn't heal his own life. They're all poignant stories about people who pretty much remain invisible to the world. They don't call attention to themselves and they could be people we pass everyday and just not see. Very sobering.

Will Eisner is a great graphic artist and a super mensch. The Invisible People are heart-felt heart breakers. Cosmic and human. My dad was a so called cartoonist but his cartoons were child-like at best. Will Eisner's cartoons puts him in the same league as James Joyce and Dostoevsky