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4 unusual facts about A Contract with God


A Contract with God

The idea that God must uphold his end of the first commandment has been a subject of works such as Elie Wiesel's play The Trial of God (1979), made in response to the atrocities Wiesel witnessed at Auschwitz.

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He abandons his faith, shaves his beard, and lives a life as a miserly businessman in a penthouse with a gentile mistress.

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Eisner's status as a cartoonist grew after A Contract with God appeared, and his influence was augmented by his time as a teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he expounded his theories of the medium.

Life force

A Life Force, the second volume in Will Eisner's A Contract with God trilogy about the New York Jewish community in the 1930s and 1940s



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