Trivia / A Contract with God

• Creator Breakdown: The book was inspired by the death of Will Eisner's teenage daughter by leukemia.
• Career Resurrection: Before this book, Eisner was beloved for his groundbreaking series, The Spirit, but when that ended in the 1950's, he was mostly doing military instruction manuals. After this book, he cemented his place as one the masters of the comic medium, pushed the art form to places it had rarely treked before and made even more successful graphic novels until his death.
• Reality Subtext: Frimme Hersh's Rage Against the Heavens is based on the death of Will Eisner's daughter from Leukemia while Cookalien was based on his teenage years.