What is the author's style in Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner?

The author of Comics & Sequential Art, Will Eisner, is an acknowledged master of comic book art and one of its earliest creators. He studies under the anatomist George Bridgman and painter Robert Brachman, packages comic books for various publishers, and in the late 1930s publishes a weekly comic book insert for newspapers, The Spirit. It influences a generation of famed cartoonists. In 1952, Eisner switches his attention to the new field of educational comics, producing training manuals for the U.S. Army and producing teaching materials for art schools. In the mid-1970s, Eisner pioneers the graphic novel with A Contract with God. He has since produced eight graphic novels.

The book is an outgrowth of a popular course he teaches for fifteen years at the New York School of Visual Art and first serialized in The Spirit. It distills his ideas, theories, and advice on an art form that has generally been ignored as a scholarly topic, although each of its component elements has been deemed worthy of examination. He finds that many elements that have been considered "instinctive" can be organized into an exposition on the "art of communication." Eisner offers the book as a guide to the serious student, to practicing cartoonists, and to serious teachers. In the "Forward" [sic], Eisner explains that sequential art deserves to be properly analyzed by a practitioner.

The major impact of Comics & Sequential Art is in the artwork, much of it reproduced from Spirit strips. Brief notes in the gutters explain why Eisner does what he does on the given page and what he expects the impact will be on reader/viewers.