Will Eisner's Gleeful Guide to the Quality of Life

In 1974 and ’75, just as THE SPIRIT revival was picking up speed, Will Eisner published a number of humorous and/or informative paperbacks including a guide to haunted houses hosted by the Spirit himself! Most of what came out, though, were Eisner’s "GLEEFUL GUIDES." The series offered humorous cartoons and commentary on plants, taxes, astrology and cooking. If the pages seen here were originally from one of these (and they may NOT have been) then it may have been the one entitled HOW TO AVOID DEATH AND TAXES AND LIVE FOREVER.
WILL EISNER’S GLEEFUL GUIDE TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE appeared in a mid-seventies issue of Al Goldstein’s slick porn mag (not the newspaper) NATIONAL SCREW. Oddly enough I (still underage) was purchasing this disgusting rag (ahem!) because they were running some great, funny Wally Wood strips! When I saw this by Will Eisner I was flabbergasted! Nudity? Rape jokes? Extreme violence? This was from the man who would go on to detail social ills so understandingly in variousgraphic novels? Rape isn’t funny and never was but there was a time in the seventies when apparently that sensitivity wasn’t there yet. Knowing that one can understand perhaps how this came about but it’s still profoundly disturbing. Offered today in the interests of historical context and accuracy—WILL EISNER’S GLEEFUL GUIDE TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE.

Riffwraith a écrit:Ce fut dessiné en 1976, c'est vrai que ça aurait plus eu sa place ici (question d'absurdité des propos et de crudité des représentations) si ça avait été fait 15-20 ans plus tôt.

Je ne me rappelle pas qu'on se soit penché sur les critères qui font qu'une oeuvre ait sa place ou non sur BDTrash, fut-ce fait?

Mio Kate a écrit:Je ne connais pas l'auteur de nom, mais le dessin me rappelle un livre qui m'avait beaucoup marqué plus jeune, "Comment éviter la mort et les impôts". Est-ce le même auteur ?

If the pages seen here were originally from one of these (and they may NOT have been) then it may have been the one entitled HOW TO AVOID DEATH AND TAXES AND LIVE FOREVER.

Mio Kate a écrit:Oops, j'ai lu le passage en diagonale

Francis a écrit:Je suis choqué que Will Eisner soit sur BDtrash. C'est un peu comme si Ernst Lubitsch se retrouvait sur Nanarland.

Elvifrancis a écrit:
Qui?

darrian ashoka a écrit:

Mio Kate a écrit:Oops, j'ai lu le passage en diagonale

il y en a 4 sortis en français sous le titre générique: les guides loufoquesde Will Eisner:
comment eviter la mort et les impots
la cuisine occulte
comment dialoguer avec les plantes
l'astrologie sournoise

le dernier est le plus difficile a trouver
d'apres les VO que j'ai, seul "facts, statistics and trivia" est inédit en français.