Last night was supposed to be the first day of a 3-day program of speakers at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center.
Alas, the event has been cancelled.
Below are the details of what had been planned (& will hopefully take place somewhere sometime in the future).
* Arie Kaplan, author of From Krakow to Krypton : Jews and Comic Books, speaking about his book
* Trina Robbins (author of Lily Renée, Escape Artist, co-author of "Zog Nit Keyn Mol : the Partisans Song" and author of "The Triangle Fire" which was published in both Corporate Crime Comics #2 and Lilith Magazine #2) - "Writing Comics & Graphic Novels".
* Sarah Lightman (co-curator of the travelling exhibition "Graphic Details : Confessional Comics by Jewish Women") - Confessing your Graphic Details
* Rabbi Simcha Weinstein (author of p, Up and Oy Vey! How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero), speaking about his second book Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the 21st Century
* Hussein Rashid -
Wham! Bam! Dishoom! Muslims and Americaness in Graphic Novels
* David Wolkin (Executive Director of Limmud NY) - Reading Between the Panels
* Danny Fingeroth (author of Disguised as Clark Kent : Jews, Comics and the Creation of the Superhero) - The Life and Art of Will Eisner
* Eric Greenberg - When Superman was Judenrein (a refernce to his 1998 article Is SUPERMAN ‘Judenrein?’
* Liana Finck - author of the A Bintel Brief cartoons in The Forward talking about her work
* Jeff Newelt - Remembering Harvey Pekar: The Art of Appreciation
* Lawrence Klein - Founding the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
* Arthur Kurzweil - Comic Books and Super Heroes: What do the Jewish Sages Say?
* Holy Shabbos, Batman!
Observe the Sabbath the superhero way with our special services and delicious farm-to-table kosher homemade meals.
* Is Superman Jewish?
A conversation with Danny Fingeroth, Arie Kaplan, and Simcha Weinstein
Moderated by Eric Greenberg
* Women & Comics
A conversation with Liana Finck, Sarah Lightman, and Trina Robbins
Comics as a Religious Activity
A conversation with all presenters
Review: People Who Eat Darkness, by Richard Lloyd Parry
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*People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from
the Streets of Tokyo- and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up*, by Richard Lloyd
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2 years ago
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