The father of the graphic novel was Jewish. A new biography tells Will Eisner’s whole story

The father of the graphic novel was Jewish. A new biography tells Will Eisner’s whole story

Long before graphic novels lined bestseller lists and earned literary accolades, Will Eisner pioneered the form, treating comics not as pulp but as art. Now, a new biography in panels tells his story the way he told so many others — through ink and imagination. “Will Eisner: A Comics Biography,” the new graphic novel by Boston-based artist Dan Mazur and writer Stephen Weiner, traces the Jewish writer’s life from his early days hustling in Depres…