Cover “Graphic Storytelling”

This example is from Will’s second of three instructional books, Graphic Storytelling, which he originally self-published under his Poorhouse Press imprint in 1996. Eisner used cave people, possibly Neanderthals, to underscore the fact that storytelling goes very deep into the human past, and that drawings on cave walls may be our earliest evidence of telling stories with pictures, known today as comics. In this example, the cave wall panels tell the story of a successful hunt.