A review by mjfmjfmjf
Fagin the Jew by Will Eisner

4.0

To the best of my memory I've never read Oliver Twist! or seen any media version of it. I read this because it was Will Eisner. And the library had a copy. On it was just great. The context set in both forward and afterward added a lot. But really even without any of this, it would have been a good book. The art was just plain terrific, distinctive, descriptive, the characters differentiable. Many of the characters were not especially attractive neither in looks nor action. This is a view of life in England for Ashkenazi Jews that I was just plain unfamiliar with. And eventually Oliver Twist appears. Really this almost makes me want to pick up Dickens. Perhaps the library has other Eisner that I haven't read that I'll read instead.