A sharp first printing of this original graphic novel by Will Eisner. Out of print in all editions.

From the publisher:

The Name of the Game is a multi-generational saga that follows the drama of one family for nearly a century. This graphic novel looks at the intrigue and power-brokering that goes on behind the scenes in many family-run businesses.

Loosely based on the story of Eisner's wife's family, this epic tale spanning three generations of power and privilege explores wealth, marriage, and jealousy in a sprawling American dynasty.

From the back cover:

In The Name Of The Game, master storyteller and comics innovator tells an epic tale spanning three generations of power and privilege won through the struggles of marriage.

It is the story of three families, the Arnheims, the Obers, and the Kayns, all descendants of Jewish immigrants, and their struggle for status. As the wealthy seek to insure the family's future with marriage and heirs, and the less well-off use it to attain wealth and social standing, Will Eisner proves that marriage is indeed the name of the game.

From WillEisner.com:

In a career that spanned nearly seventy years and eight decades — from the dawn of the comic book to the advent of digital comics — he truly was the 'Orson Welles of comics' and the 'father of the Graphic Novel'. He broke new ground in the development of visual narrative and the language of comics and was the creator of The Spirit, John Law, Lady Luck, Mr. Mystic, Uncle Sam, Blackhawk, Sheena and countless others.

Wizard magazine named Eisner "the most influential comic artist of all time." Michael Chabon's Pulitzer-prize winning novel Kavalier and Clay is based in good part on Eisner. Also in 2002, Eisner received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Federation for Jewish Culture, only the second such honor in the organization's history, presented by Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman.