tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326861402024-03-13T10:17:09.040-07:00Jewish ComicsThis blog is primarily for announcements of new stories in comic books or strips that have a Jewish character in them, announcements about events related to Jewish comics (e.g. article publication, book publication, museum exhibitions, lectures, etc.) and for discussion about the Jewish comics themselves.Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.comBlogger370125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-84197641747229541612022-07-21T21:49:00.001-07:002022-07-21T22:03:33.332-07:00Jewish Side of San Diego Comic Con (SDCCI) 2022 - an abridged post<p><span style="font-family: times;"> Those who've been following my blog for over 2 years might recall that I usually put quite a bit of time and effort into highlighting the Jewish content of comic conventions. Alas, while life got busy for me personally, I kept putting off looking into this year's SDCCI until I had already missed day 1.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Therefore, this will be a very brief post highlighting the most significant individuals I wish I would have been able to meet (or meet again) and panels I wish I could have attended, had I been able to get to San Diego this year. I apologize for what I'm certain will be many unintended omissions, but I chose brevity and speed over trying to be thorough and not getting the post published before I head to sleep.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">**********</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times;">The <a href="https://www.comic-con.org/">SDCCI</a> (which officially started today [July 21st] and had its preview night [July 20th]) will have plenty of Jewish comics professionals in attendance, as well as some non-Jewish comics professionals who have done "Jewish" work and 5 sessions which I would specifically recommend to those who will be there.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: times;">Friday, July 22, 2022</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: times;">11:00 AM - 12:00 PM</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: times;">Room 28DE</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">The New Face of Jewish Comics</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">DESCRIPTION :</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">The portrayal of Jews in comics and Jewish people making comics has grown and changed immensely from titles involving Nazis or neurotic New Yorker stereotypes. This panel profiles the best and brighest up-and-coming Jewish talent and titles, moderated by <a href="https://shoutoutla.com/meet-barbra-dillon-co-founder-editor-in-chief/">Barbra Dillon</a> (editor-in-chief, <a href="https://www.fanbasepress.com/">Fanbase Press</a>). Barbra has kindly shared with me that the panelists will include Dani Colman, Fabrice Sapolsky (past organizer of <a href="http://jewishcomiccon.org/">Jewish Comic Con</a>), Ramy Dubrow, and Arnon Shorr (writer of the PJ Library graphic novel<i> José and the Pirate Captain Toledano</i>).</span></p><p>Friday, July 22, 2022</p><p>1:00 PM - 2:00 PM</p><p>Room 28DE</p><p>Spotlight on Danny Fingeroth</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p><a href="http://dannyfingeroth.com/about-danny-fingeroth/short-biography/">Danny Fingeroth</a> has had a long and accomplished career in and around the comics industry. After 18 years as a writer and Group Editor at Marvel, best known for his work on Spider-Man, Danny has worked in executive positions at digital entertainment companies Virtual Comics and Visionary Media and created and packaged Write Now! magazine for TwoMorrows. He’s taught comics-related topics at venues including NYU and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, where he was the director of education. Danny serves as Chair of Will Eisner Week for Will Eisner Studios and as a consultant to the current traveling exhibition. His books on popular culture include <i>Superman on the Couch</i> and <i>Disguised as Clark Kent : Jews Comics and the Creation of the Superhero</i>. His most recent book is A<i> Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee</i>, chosen as an Entertainment Book of the Year by the Times of London and SyFy. Danny discusses his life and career with pop culture historian Jerry Beck (The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons).</p><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Saturday, July 23, 2022</div></div><div><p>3:30 PM - 4:30 PM</p><p>Sails Pavilion: AA07</p><p>Real Comics, Real Issues</p><p>Panelists include Jerry Craft (<i>Class Act</i>), Johnnie Christmas (<i>Swim Team</i>), <a href="https://terrilibenson.com/about-terri/">Terri Libenson</a> (<i>Remarkably Ruby</i>, the comic strip <i>The Pajama Diaries</i>, and a compilation of strips titled <i>Bat-Zilla</i>), Laura Gao (<i>Messy Roots</i>), <a href="https://www.supermercado.pizza/about">Yehudi Mercado</a> (<i>Chunky, </i><i>Chunky Goes To Camp, Throne of Secrets</i>)</p></div><p><span face="PlusJakartaSans, Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #484848; font-size: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div>Sunday, July 24, 2022</div><div><br /></div><div>1:00 PM - 2:00 PM</div><div><br /></div><div>Room 4</div><div><br /></div><div>Spotlight on Miriam Libicki</div><div><br /></div><div>DESCRIPTION</div><div>Comic book author, illustrator, and critic Deb Aoki (Bento Box) interviews <a href="https://realgonegirl.com/about/">Miriam Libicki</a> (jobnik!, But I Live, illustrated essays<span face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"> "Towards a Hot Jew: The Israeli Soldier as Fetish Object" and "Jewish Memoir Goes Pow! Zap! Oy!" & the illustrated mini-journals </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ceasefire</i><span face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Fierce Ease</i>) about her path in comics, from art school to the indie con circuit, academia and beyond. Miriam is a pioneer of the graphic essay and plumbs American-Jewish identity using multiple perspectives and mediums.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Sunday, July 24, 2022</div><div><br /></div><div>1:30 PM - 2:30 PM</div><div><br /></div><div>Room 26AB</div><div><br /></div><div>Comics Arts Conference Session #15: The Jewish Graphic Novel: From <i>A Contract with God</i> to <i>Tunnels</i></div><div><br /></div><div>DESCRIPTION</div><div>When asked to compare his graphic novels to the prose work of Jewish-American novelist Saul Bellow, Will Eisner replied, “Bellow is doing nothing more than I'm doing . . . I've been selling the same pretzel on the same corner." Having innovated comics in the 1940s with his legendary The Spirit, Eisner burst back onto the scene with his pioneering 1978 graphic novel <i>A Contract with God</i>. He devoted the rest of his career to telling stories of Jewish life in 20th-century America. In Contract’s wake, new generations of Jewish graphic novelists followed in Eisner’s footsteps. Trina Robbins (<i>A Minyn Yidn Un Andere Zakhn</i>), <a href="http://www.kenkrimstein.com/about">Ken Krimstein</a> (<i>When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers</i>), and <a href="https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/life-comics-graphic-adventures-karen-green">Karen Green</a> (Columbia University) discuss how the Jewish graphic novel developed in the years after Eisner’s groundbreaking publications. <a href="http://dannyfingeroth.com/about-danny-fingeroth/short-biography/">Danny Fingeroth</a> (<i>Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero</i>) moderates.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>*******</div><div><br /></div><div>It's too late to announce these, but I would like to recognize two interesting panels which I wish I had promoted in time to let people know about them.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Thursday, July 21, 2022</div><div><br /></div><div>11:00 AM - 12:00 PM</div><div><br /></div><div>Neil Morgan Auditorium, San Diego Central Library</div><div><br /></div><div>Podcasting 101</div><div><br /></div><div>DESCRIPTION</div><div>Aziz Al-Doory (History of Westeros, Podcast of Surprise), Jonathan Eigen (Sagas and Sass, Vassals of Kingsgrave Podcast), Michal Schick (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/jewishfangirls/">Nice Jewish Fangirls</a>, Podcast of Surprise), and David Hsieh (CEO of GlocalStar, Bastards of Kingsgrave Podcast) offer tips and tricks for and the intricacies of planning, recording, editing, releasing, and promoting your own podcast. Moderated by Amin Javadi (A Podcast of Ice and Fire). </div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Thursday, July 21, 2022</div><div><br /></div><div>1:30 PM - 2:30 PM</div><div><br /></div><div>Room 4</div><div><br /></div><div>Art from The Holocaust: Art as a Lifeline</div><div><br /></div><div>DESCRIPTION</div><div><a href="http://www.davidbeck-brown.com/about_the_artist.htm">David Beck Brown</a> (artist/creator, <i>The Unknown Artist-History Erased</i>), Sandra Scheller (USC Shoah Foundation interviewer), <a href="https://sfi.usc.edu/about/staff/stephen-d-smith-phd">Stephen D. Smith</a> (CEO, StoryFiles), and Heidi S. Straus (USC Shoah Foundation interviewer, Holocaust educator) examine and discuss drawings, illustrations, and graphics made by Holocaust prisoners in the face of potentially mortal consequences. They will discuss such prisoner artists as <a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/rosenthal_horst.htm">Horst Rosenthal</a>, <a href="https://babbittblog.com/2012/11/19/dina-babbitt-the-comic/">Dina Babbitt</a>, and Otto Ungar and offer a special tribute to <a href="http://nealadams.com/">Neal Adams</a>, creator of the Artist from Auschwitz graphic. </div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-6542204910619779342022-06-15T23:06:00.003-07:002022-06-16T11:01:52.736-07:00The Jewish Side of TCAF 2022 - this weekend<p> <span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">On Saturday, June 18th & Sunday, June 19th, readers, writers, artists, publishers and fans of comix will converge at the </span><a href="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/hou_az_trl.jsp" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Toronto Reference Library</a><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"> ( and nearby venues) to take part in the the FREE </span><a href="http://torontocomics.com/about-tcaf/" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Toronto Comic Arts Festival</a><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"> (aka TCAF).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Among the talented people who will be at TCAF this year are a small number of comix professionals who have done (or researched) comic art using Jewish characters or themes, as well as a visiting Israeli cartoonist.</span></p><p>*****</p><p><a href="https://www.benkahncomics.com/">Ben Kahn</a> is the author of the graphic novel <i>Heavenly Blues</i>.</p><p><a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Fantagraphics Books</a><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"> is the publisher of </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Jewish Images in the Comics, Palestine</i><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">, and </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Barracuda in the Attic</i><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><a href="http://www.firstsecondbooks.com/" style="color: #336699;">First Second Books</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 16.9px;">is the publisher of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 16.9px;">Klezmer : Tales of the Wild East</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 16.9px;">, the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 16.9px;">Rabbi's Cat</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 16.9px;"> books, and the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 16.9px;">Resistance </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 16.9px;">series.</span></p><p><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 15px;"><a href="https://fredrikstromberg.com/curriculum-vitae/">Fredrik Strömberg</a>, author of the book <i>Jewish Images in the Comics, </i>will be one of the panelists on the Nordic Bridges panel on Sunday afternoon (2:00-3:00 PM) in the Learning Centre.</span></p><p><a href="http://idoyogev.myportfolio.com" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ido Yogev</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> is an illustrator and cartoonist currently residing in Givatayim, Israel. His work has been published in the </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Haaretz</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> newspaper.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 16.9px;"><span face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.sobuttons.com/artist_baylis.html">Jonathan Baylis</a> is the author of the <i>So ... Buttons</i> minicomics series. </span></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">his Jewishness is evident in many of the stories in this comic, including </span><a href="http://www.sobuttons.com/drafted1.htm" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"So ... My Dad Got Drafted"</a><span face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"> (in which Jonathan's father expresses his disdain for France because "Dey hate da Jews" and Jonathan mentions (after their dinner of ribs) that their stomachs were full of pork "like the good Jews we are" </span><span face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"> ; </span><a href="http://www.sobuttons.com/nixon1.htm" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"So ... Only Nixon Could've Gone to China"</a><span face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"> shows Jonathan visiting a concentration camp while on a trip to Germany. Incidentally, I enjoyed that last story better when I read it on Baylis's website, since it had </span><a href="http://www.sobuttons.com/nixon6.htm" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the music playing in the background while you read the last page</a><span face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;">.</span></p><p><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><a href="http://rotsztain.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Jonathan Rotsztain</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"> is the author-illustrator of the self-published works </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://rotsztain.com/comics/self_loving_jew/self_loving_jew.html" style="color: #336699;">Self-Loving Jew</a> </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://rotsztain.com/comics/auto_bio/autobio.html" style="color: #336699;">Journey into Jonathan</a>. </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">The first issue of his new series </span><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i> </i></span></span></span><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Self-Loving Jew Needs Love </i>will debut at TCAF.</span></p><p><a href="https://www.joshdraws.com/about">Josh Rosen</a> is the illustrator of the book <i>The Good Fight</i>, inspired by the <span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">infamous </span><a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/christie-pits-riot" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Chrstie Pits Riot</a>. The book was long-listed for the City of Toronto Book Award in 2021.</p><p><a href="http://matt-lub.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; text-decoration-line: none;">Mattie Lubchansk</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;">y is a cartoonist who writes and illustrates the webcomic </span><a href="http://www.listen-tome.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; text-decoration-line: none;">Please Listen to Me</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;">. Their 3-ingredient Passover brisket recipe comic was published online at </span><a href="http://www.saveur.com/article/blog/recipe-comix-a-brisket-with-secret-sauce" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; text-decoration-line: none;">Saveur</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;"> and their response to the use of Holocaust imagery in Trump's America was included in the piece "</span><a href="https://thenib.com/never-again" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; text-decoration-line: none;">Never Again?</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;">" (</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;">The Nib</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;">).</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><a href="https://www.neilgaiman.com/About_Neil">Neil Gaiman</a> (appearing virtually) </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.84px;">contributed scripts for stories that appeared in the anthology <i>Outrageous Tales of the Old Testament</i>. Cyril Camus discussed how Neil's Jewish background contributed both to certain characters and concepts in the Sandman series, as well as to the critical way that he presented his adaptations in the Knockabout anthology (see The "Outsider": Neil Gaiman and the Old Testament in <i>Shofar :An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies</i> vol. 29, N°2). On Sunday, a pre-recorded conversation between Neil and Mark Askwith will take place in the Hilton Learning Theatre from 3-4 PM.</span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.nbmpub.com/" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">NBM Graphic Novels</a><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">is the publisher of the </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">Jew in Communist Prague </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">books, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">Brownsville</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">The Big Khan</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">, and the </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">Isaac the Pirate </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">books.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.penguin.com/">Penguin Books</a> is the current publisher of the Pulitzer-winner Holocaust graphic memoir <i>Maus</i>.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.rsikoryak.com/" style="color: #336699; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 16.9px;">Robert Sikoryak</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 16.9px;"> is a cartoonist who has adapted classic stories into comic-style retellings, including a Dagwood-style "Adam and Eve", which was reprinted in </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 16.9px;">Masterpiece Comics.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://rotemannadiamant.com/about/">Rotem Anna Diamant</a> is the founder and librarian of the <a href="https://www.canadacomicsol.org/">Canada Comics Open Library,</a> as well as a self-taught artist. Among her published works is the zine <i>Cute Nose.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.sbearbergman.com/about">S. Bear Bergman </a>is the author of the book <i>Special Topics in Being a Human</i>. One of the essays not included in the book is <a href="https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/how-to-have-a-disagreement-without-having-a-fight">"How to Have a Disagreement without Having a Fight"</a>, which was published on the Jewish Book Council website.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.sfreedmanlawson.com/about">Saul Freedman-Lawson</a> is the illustrator </span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"> of the book </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Special Topics in Being a Human</i><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">. One of the essays not included in the book is </span><a href="https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/how-to-have-a-disagreement-without-having-a-fight" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">"How to Have a Disagreement without Having a Fight"</a><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">, which was published on the Jewish Book Council website.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><i><a href="http://www.shiraneiss.com/aboutartist">Shira Neiss</a> </i>is a freelance illustrator and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work is an irreverant, satirical exploration of her Ultra Orthodox Jewish upbringing.<br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.shiraspector.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Shira Spector</a> , self-described as </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14px;">an infertile, high-femme, low income, non-biological Jewish mom, dyke drama queen, and ectopic pregnancy survivor</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14px;">" </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14px;">is the author-illustrator of the graphic memoir </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Red Rock Baby Candy.</em></p><p><a href="http://tocomix.com" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">TO Comix Press</a><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"> is the publisher of anthologies of comic stories that take place in Toronto, written and drawn by Torontonian talents. One of the stories in the book </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Osgoode as Gold</i><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"> is "Finkel and Sons" by Sam Ruano, </span><a href="https://www.xangrey.com/me-me-all-about-me.html" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Xan Grey</a><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://nechamafrier.com/" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Nechama Frier</a><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">, and </span><a href="https://graphiccon.ca/guests/andrew-thomas/" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Andrew Thomas</a><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">. Taking place during the infamous </span><a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/christie-pits-riot" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Chrstie Pits Riot</a><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">, the tale invlolves a shopkeeper's son who must quickly decide how best to protect his family.</span></p><p><br /></p>Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-66754119949505120492020-06-30T07:45:00.000-07:002020-06-30T07:45:12.221-07:00Funny, They Don't Look Jewish! A Live Comic Book Podcast @ AJL - Thursday, July 2nd<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">For the first time in its history, the <a href="https://jewishlibraries.org/">Association of Jewish Libraries</a> is holding a five-day <a href="https://jewishlibraries.org/meetinginfo.php?id=24&ts=1593363517">virtual conference </a>promoting Jewish literacy through enhancement of libraries and library resources and through leadership for the profession and practitioners of Judaic librarianship.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On Thursday, July 2nd (2:00 - 3:30 PM EST), Brandon Bernstein (former campus rabbi at <a href="https://www.northwesternhillel.org/about">Northwestern Hillel</a></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">) & <a href="http://www.henryjbernstein.com/meet-henry">Henry Bernstein</a> (an </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">artist & teacher who teaches middle school Judaic Studies at the <a href="https://www.chicagojewishdayschool.org/about/bruchim-habayim-welcome-from-the-head-of-school">Chicago Jewish Day School</a>) will co-host a new episode of their entertaining and engaging podcast <a href="https://jewishcomicspod.simplecast.fm/">"Funny, They Don't Look Jewish!"</a> which </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">explores explicitly Jewish content in comic books.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Together, they will </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">make the case that superhero comics are an excellent avenue to get young people to read, as well as an untapped tool to explore Jewish identity in a positive, thought-provoking and inclusive way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Whereas, m</span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">ost writers, teachers and fans tend to focus on the Jewishness of comic creators (i.e.: <a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/shuster_j.htm">Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster</a>, <a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lee_s.htm">Stan Lee</a> & </span>J<a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kirby.htm">ack Kirby</a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">, etc.), they rarely talk about the presence of substantive Jewish content within the pages. The Bernsteins present explicit Jewish content in the form of characters self-identifying as Jewish, participating in Jewish ritual or quoting Jewish text.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Unlike previous episodes of their podcast, this episode will be steamed live via Zoom (allowing viewers to see the hosts, as well as hear them).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In order to attend the Zoom session (which will conclude with a Q-&-A), you must be registered for the conference. To register please go to </span><a href="https://jewishlibraries.org/meet-reg1.php?id=24">https://jewishlibraries.org/meet-reg1.php?id=24</a>.<br />
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The session will be moderated by Steven M. Bergson, editor of <i><a href="http://ahcomics.com/wordpress/jewish-comix-anthology-volume-1/">Jewish Comix Anthology</a> </i>and <i><a href="http://ahcomics.com/wordpress/sci-the-jewish-comics-anthology-volume-2/">SCI : Jewish Comics Anthology</a>.</i></div>
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Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-19074460166044746412019-07-24T19:02:00.000-07:002019-07-24T19:02:53.478-07:00Artist's Alley at the Comics Studies Society conference in TorontoOn Friday, July 26th (during Day 2 of the 2nd annual <a href="http://comicssociety.org/conference/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">conference</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> of the <a href="http://comicssociety.org/">Comics Studies Society</a></span>) at <a href="http://www.ryerson.ca/about/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ryerson University</a>, there will be an Artist's Alley, which will be free and open to the public from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM in the Student Learning Centre Atrium.<br />
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At this event, you may meet the artists and publishers, browse their works, purchase those works, &/or get their works personally signed. Sometimes, the artist will even include a free sketch.<br />
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A list of the artists and publishers who will be at the event may be found at <a href="https://z-m-www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10220186635044386&set=gm.2407593162630745&type=1&theater">https://z-m-www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10220186635044386&set=gm.2407593162630745&type=1&theater</a><br /><br />Among the Jewish-content creators who will be there are :<br />
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* <a href="http://ahcomics.com/wordpress/">Alternate History Comics</a> is the publisher of <i><a href="http://ahcomics.com/wordpress/jewish-comix-anthology-volume-1/">Jewish Comix Anthology</a></i> and <i><a href="http://ahcomics.com/wordpress/sci-the-jewish-comics-anthology-volume-2/">SCI : Jewish Comics Anthology</a></i><br />
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* Adam Gorham is the author-illustrator of the stories "The Magic Mirror of Rabbi Adam" and "Yaish and the Protector" (both in <i>Jewish Comix Anthology</i>) and the illustrator of the "Android" pinup in <i>SCI : Jewish Comics Anthology</i>)<br />
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* Jamie Michaels is the author of the graphic historical fiction book <a href="http://www.dirtywatercomics.com/christie-pits" style="font-style: italic;">Christie Pits</a><br />
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Canadian publisher <a href="http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/">Drawn and Quarterly </a> (publisher of <i>The Property</i>, <i>Exit Wounds</i>, <i>Jamalti and Other Stories</i>, <i>The Golem's Mighty Swing</i>, <i>Jerusalem : Chronicles from the Holy City</i>, <i>Towards a Hot Jew</i>, and <i>Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus</i>) will be exhibiting in room POD-250 on all 3 days of teh conference (i.e. July 25-27). On Thursday from 11:15 - 1:15 and on Friday from 3:15 - 4:30, Chester Brown (author-illustrator of <i>Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus</i>) will be signing.<br />
<br />Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-32522155028191952532019-07-24T18:13:00.000-07:002019-07-24T18:13:16.551-07:00The Jewish Side of the 2019 CSS conference in TorontoThe 2nd annual <a href="http://comicssociety.org/conference/">conference</a> of the <a href="http://comicssociety.org/">Comics Studies Society</a> will convene in Toronto (at <a href="http://www.ryerson.ca/about/">Ryerson University</a>) from July 25th (tomorrow) until July 27th.<br />
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The theme of this year's conference is : Comics/Politics.<br />
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Among the works being discussed at the conference will be comic literature with Jewish / Holocaust / Israeli content.<br />
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Below is a list of those panels. A complete list of panels (Acrobat format) may be found at <a href="http://comicssociety.org/documents/ComicsPoliticsProgramFinal.pdf">http://comicssociety.org/documents/ComicsPoliticsProgramFinal.pdf</a><br /><br />Conference attendance (for panels) is limited to those who have registered via Eventbrite - <a href="http://comicssociety.org/conference/registration/">http://comicssociety.org/conference/registration/</a> or those who have registered on-site.<br />
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<b><u>Thursday, July 25, 2019</u></b><br />
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Steven M. Bergson (UJA Federation of Greater Toronto). How <i>S<a href="http://ahcomics.com/wordpress/sci-the-jewish-comics-anthology-volume-2/">CI : Jewish Comics Anthology</a></i> Transformed into a Political Work<br /><br /><b><u>Friday July 26, 2019</u></b><br />
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<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philip_Smith14">Phillip Smith</a>. Early Holocaust Narratives in Comics<br />
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenny-blenk-a82016106/">Jenny Blenk</a>. Dorkish Anxieties : Social Expectations and the Performance of Anxieties in Evan Dorkin's <a href="https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/30-752/Dork-HC">"'Dork"</a><br />
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Jamie Michaels. Graphic Backgrounds : Collective Dissociative Trauma is Rutu Modan's <i><a href="https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/exit-wounds">Exit Wounds</a></i><br />
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<br />Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-71582554728416540492019-02-21T23:07:00.000-08:002019-02-21T23:15:11.404-08:00Jews and Comics : People of the Book - Toronto panel discussion - Sat., Feb. 23rd<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">On the forthcoming Motzei Shabbos (approximately 8:30 PM EST), the <a href="https://www.bayt.ca/about.html">Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto</a> synagogue will be hosting a panel discussion titled "Jews and Comics : People of the Book", moderated by <a href="https://www.ou.org/torah/author/rabbi_daniel_korobkin/#?">Rabbi Daniel Korobkin</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Location : Rebbetzin Judy Taub Hall</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Refreshments donated by <a href="http://ajlontario.org/">The Association of Jewish Libraries (Ontario chapter)</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* <a href="http://www.jewishcartoon.com/about.html">Jordan B. Gorfinkel</a> is a veteran comic book editor and writer, newspaper cartoonist, and music and video producer. As a DC comic editor for nearly a decade, Gorf was front and center in a 400% growth of the Batman franchise. Gorf writes and illustrates <a href="http://www.jewishcartoon.com/" style="font-style: italic;">Everything's Relative</a><i>,</i> a weekly newspaper comic strip published internationally. Through <a href="https://www.korenpub.com/koren_en_usd/about-us">Koren Publishers</a>, he recently published the world's first <i><a href="http://jewishcartoon.com/passover/">Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel</a></i>, written by Gorf, and illustrated by Israeli artist <a href="http://www.erezadok.com/about/">Erez Zadok</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* Steven M. Bergson is a data processing specialist at <a href="https://jewishtoronto.com/history-of-uja-federation">UJA Federation of Greater Toronto</a>. He discovered comics at age 4 and has been reading them ever since. He set up his own free website, the <a href="http://www.oocities.org/athens/acropolis/5756/JWISHC.HTM">Jewish comics bibliography</a> while still in library school. It grew over the years until it encompassed hundreds of entries. Over time, Steve was able to network with enough Jewish comics professionals to publish a<a href="http://ahcomics.com/wordpress/jewish-comix-anthology-volume-1/"> Jewish comics anthology</a>. To date, 2 volumes have been published.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Steven will be discussing Orthodox comics, Orthodox fans, and Orthodox comic creators. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* Gerald Hartman is President of <a href="http://truenorthimaging.com/about/overview/">True North Imaging</a>, a medical imaging organization based in Toronto. As well, he serves as President of the <a href="http://www.idca.ca/about-the-idca/">IDCA</a>, the provincial industry association for this healthcare sector. He and his wife Sheryl spent the majority of their time working on community activities and chesed initiatives on behalf of klal yisroel. Gerald is the child of Hungarian and Slovak Holocaust survivors. He has been a collector of World War II era comics for 25 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gerald will be discussing <span style="background-color: white;">World War 2 era comics (focusing on Jewish artists) and the use of propaganda.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Copies of <i>Jewish Comics Anthology</i> (both volumes) and <i>Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel</i> will be on sale (and may be signed) following the panel.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-12442078610668261682018-10-09T21:15:00.000-07:002018-10-09T21:15:53.502-07:00Zap! Pow! Oy! exhibition launch in Toronto - Oct. 23<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Date : Tues., October 23, 2018</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Location : <a href="https://www.beth-tzedec.org/page/about-beth-tzedec">Beth Tzedec Congregation</a>, 1700 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5P 3K3</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This exhibit presents the Jewish storytellers, cartoonists and publishers who developed and influenced the comic book industry over the past 80 years. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">No charge, but reservations for exhibit opening night are requested. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">Guest exhibit curators: <a href="http://www.oocities.org/athens/Acropolis/5756/background.htm">Steven M. Bergson</a> and <a href="http://ronkasman.tumblr.com/">Ron Kasman</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A limited number of books will be available for purchase during the launch : </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Jewish Comix Anthology</i> volume 1 (edited by Steven M. Bergson)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>SCI : Jewish Comics Anthology</i> volume 2 (edited by Steven M. Bergson)<br style="background-color: white;" /><br /><i>The Tower of the Comic Book Freaks</i> (written and illustrated by Ron Kasman)<br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">For information about this exhibit or to book a group tour, please contact museum curator <a href="https://www.beth-tzedec.org/page/our-staff/a/display/s/1/hc/1/item/22">Dorion Liebgott</a> at 416-781-3514 ext. 232. Exhibit continues through March 2019.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem;"><a href="http://willeisner.com/biography/index.html">Will Eisner</a> (author-illustratator of <i>Fagin the Jew</i>, </span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><i>The Plot : The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion</i> ; 2002 winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Federation for Jewish Culture) </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem;">revolutionized comics with his pioneering 1978 graphic novel, <i>A Contract with God</i>. GN sales have now outgrown comic book sales and can be found in an amazing array of genres and styles. <a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kitchen_denis.htm">Denis Kitchen </a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem;"><i>A Contract With God Curator’s Collection</i>, <a href="http://heymancenter.org/people/karen-green/">Karen Green</a> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem;">(Curator of Comics & Cartoons at Columbia), <a href="https://www.umass.edu/complit/member/christopher-couch">N.C. Christopher Couch</a> (<i>Will Eisner Companion</i>), <a href="http://www.deanhaspiel.com/">Dean Haspiel</a> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem;">(<i>The Red Hook</i>) and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 18px;">Paul Levitz </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem;">(<i>Brooklyn Blood</i></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem;">) discuss the evolution of the graphic novel and what the future holds.</span></div>
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Join legendary creators (including <a href="http://jinxworld.com/wordpress/?page_id=12">Brian Michael Bendis</a>, who has declared that <a href="https://www.jta.org/2018/02/16/life-religion/dc-comics-newest-writer-is-poised-to-make-superman-jewish-again">he's going to return Superman to his Jewish roots</a>) celebrating the spirit of truth, hope and justice during Superman’s 80th anniversary panel. Don’t miss this<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; line-height: inherit;"> </span>insightful conversation between industry giants as they discuss the relevance of Superman 80 years after his creation, how they’re interpreting the Man of Steel in their perspective projects and their favorite Superman moments in comics, television and movies!</div>
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<span class="location" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 1.125rem; margin-bottom: 0.3125rem;">Room 1A24 – Javits Center</span><span class="location" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 1.125rem; margin-bottom: 0.3125rem;"><br /></span><span class="location" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 1.125rem; margin-bottom: 0.3125rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem;"><br /></span></span><span class="location" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 1.125rem; margin-bottom: 0.3125rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem;">Since his DC Comics debut on ACTION COMICS and SUPERMAN, award-winning writer <a href="http://jinxworld.com/wordpress/?page_id=12">Brian Michael Bendis</a> (</span>who has declared that <a href="https://www.jta.org/2018/02/16/life-religion/dc-comics-newest-writer-is-poised-to-make-superman-jewish-again">he's going to return Superman to his Jewish roots</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem;">) has been the talk of comic book fans everywhere! Join him for this special spotlight panel to hear his upcoming plans of the Man of Steel, his creator owned Jinxworld characters and more.</span></span><div class="richtext" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13px;">From Magneto to Monica Geller, Felicity Smoak to Susan Ivanova, Jewish representation has had a spotty record in TV, film, comics, and beyond. Join the hosts of the Nice Jewish Fangirls podcast (Tamar Herman, SM Rosenberg, and Michal Schick) as they discuss the ups and (occasionally hilarious) downs in Jewish representation, and answer questions like, “Should Jewish actors play Jewish superheroes?”, "What stories get Jewish representation right?" and, maybe most importantly, “Seriously, is Wonder Woman Jewish?"</span></div>
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Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-36519973555222732972018-10-05T22:49:00.001-07:002018-10-06T05:47:31.641-07:00The Jewish Side of NYCC 2018<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today (October 6th) is the 3rd day of the 4-day <a href="http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/">New York Comic Con</a> which will be held at the <a href="http://www.javitscenter.com/">Javits Center</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">One sessions which should be of interest to those who enjoy Jewish-content comics will be held on Sunday. A Holocaust-themed session was already held on Thursday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 07, 2018, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Room 1A18 – Javits Center</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">October 04, 2018, 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM, Room 1B03 – Javits Center</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Neal Adams, iconic artist legend, Dr. Rafael Medoff, Director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and multiple Eisner Award-winner Craig Yoe, discuss their acclaimed book, <i>We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust</i>. Explore this powerful—and timely—multimedia presentation and behind-the-scenes discussion. A do-not-miss! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Several creators of Jewish comic stories and graphic novels (i.e. ones which have at least one Jewish character in them) will be in attendance. Below is a list of the ones which I've identified.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.abrams.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Abrams ComicArts</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> (booth 2228) is the publisher of the </span><a href="http://www.hereville.com/what-is-hereville/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;"><i>Hereville</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> books, the English edition of Pascal Croci's </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Auschwitz</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Yiddiskeit</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">, and the English edition of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Boxer: The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Harry Haft</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> by Reinhard Kleist</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nealadams.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Neal Adams </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> (booth 2544) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;">is the illustrator of the “Son O’ God” stories, which appeared in the pages of </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Lampoon</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;">. You may read all of the Son O’God stories (as well as the story of how Adams was recruited to be the artist) at </span><a href="http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/417/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Dial B for Blog</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;">. Adams also illustrated the Batman story </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">“</span><a href="http://hoosierinanity.blogspot.ca/2008/08/batman-237-night-of-reaper.html" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Night of the Reaper</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;"> in which the vengeful Grim Reaper is revealed to be a Nazi-hunting Holocaust survivor. Adams penciled </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">“</span><a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/08/09/arts/Babbitt_pages1-6.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">The Last Outrage”</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;"> (inked by Joe Kubert) which appeared in both </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The New York Times</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;"> and the final issue of the miniseries </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">X-men : Magneto : Testament</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;"> and which also appeared as a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Q-7_jLMs4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #336699; line-height: 23.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 2px; text-decoration-line: none; transform: translateZ(0px); vertical-align: baseline;">stop-motion video on YouTube</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;">. He also co-authored the anthology <i>We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.jinxworld.com/bio.html" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">Brian Michael Bendis</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> is the author-illustrator of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Fire</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, a comic series about a Jewish-American college student named Benjamin Furst, who is recruited into a Central Intelligent Agency operation known as Project Fire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Marguerite Bennett (booth L28) is a writer for the series <i>DC Bombshells</i>, which features both a Jewish lesbian (Batwoman) and a Jewish-Romani woman (Zatanna).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Caliber Comics (booth 1056) published the series <i>Saint Germaine</i>. In its first issue, Holopcaust survivor and Nazi informant Jacob Weinman commits suicide, as well as the series <i>U.N.Force</i> which featured Israeli superhero Sentinel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chris Claremont (booth G41) is the writer who introduced the Jewish character Kitty Pryde (aka Shadowcat) and who wrote stories which implied that Magneto was Jewish, both in the pages of The Uncanny X-Men</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;"><a href="http://lambiek.net/artists/g/giffen_keith.htm" style="color: #336699;">Keith Giffen</a> is the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">author of the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Ragman</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> miniseries that reintroduced the title character as a Jewish superhero and is also the creator of the characters Dreidel and Rabbi Zone, who both appeared in the pages of the last issue of the series </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">The Heckler.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><a href="http://adamgorham.daportfolio.com/about/" style="color: #336699;">Adam Gorham</a> (booth A23) is the author-illustrator of the stories "The Magic Mirror of Rabbi Adam" and "Yaish and the Protector" (<i>J</i><a href="http://ahcomics.com/jewish-comix-anthology-volume-1/" style="color: #336699; font-style: italic;">ewish Comix Anthology</a> volume 1) and the illustrator of the "Android" pinup (</span><i><a href="http://ahcomics.com/wordpress/sci-the-jewish-comics-anthology-volume-2/" style="color: #336699;">SCI : Jewish Comics Anthology</a></i> volume 2).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Adam Katzenstein (booth K8) is the illustrator of gag cartoons which may be found in the <i>New Yorker</i>. Two Jewish examples may be found at <a href="http://jewcy.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/cartoonings-jewish-je-ne-sais-quoi">http://jewcy.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/cartoonings-jewish-je-ne-sais-quoi</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://robliefeldcreations.com/?page_id=848" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Rob Liefeld</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> is the illustrator of stories in the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Youngblood</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> series, which included the Israeli superheroine Masada.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">David Mack (booth 118) illustrated a pinup which appears in <i>Sci : Jewish Comics Anthology</i> (vol.2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.jimmahfood.com/about/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Jim Mahfood</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> (booth 117) is the author-illustrator of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"><a href="http://www.jimmahfood.com/projects/grrl-scouts/" style="color: #336699;">Grrl Scouts</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.supermercadoent.com/bio_contact/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">Yehudi Mercado</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> (booth C6) is the author-illustrator of the graphic novel </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">T<a href="http://www.supermercadoent.com/comics-graphic-novels/throne-of-secrets/" style="color: #336699;">hrone of Secrets</a>,</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">which </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.4px;">takes the traditional biblical tale of Queen Esther and "amps up the adventure of this historic epic"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/pope_p.htm" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">Paul Pope</a> (booth A19) is the <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">author-illustrator of the story "Berlin Batman" in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Batman Chronicles</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> #11 (reprinted in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Batman : Year 100</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">), in which Batman is a Jewish painter named Baruch Wane.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Matthew Rosenberg (booth K27) is the author of the comic book series <i><a href="http://blackmaskstudios.com/4-kids-walk-into-a-bank/" style="color: #336699;">4 Kids Walk Into A Bank</a></i>, which includes the character Daniel "Berger" Berger aka Crotch the Sticky.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rachelle Rosenberg (booth F5) is the colorist of <i>Iceman</i> #6, in which Iceman dates a Jewish man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fred Van Lente (booth B23) is the author of the comic series <o:p></o:p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>Action Philosophers!</i>, which featured the story of the golem and the Jewish mystical tradition (the Kabbalah) in its fourth issue.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span>Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-83070239002255640312018-08-28T22:54:00.001-07:002018-08-29T22:00:39.095-07:00The Jewish Comics Side of Fan Expo Canada 2018 (Aug. 30 - Sep. 2) <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Starting tomorrow, fans of various genres (including science-fiction, anime, horror, gaming, and comics) will converge on the <a href="http://www.mtccc.com/facility/about/">Metro Toronto Convention Centre f</a>or the 24th annual fall edition of <a href="https://www.fanexpocanada.com/en/about-us/about-us.html">Fan Expo Canada</a>, the 3rd largest popular culture event in North America.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* <a href="http://www.nealadams.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Neal Adams </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> (738) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;">is the illustrator of the “Son O’ God” stories, which appeared in the pages of </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Lampoon</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;">. You may read all of the Son O’God stories (as well as the story of how Adams was recruited to be the artist) at </span><a href="http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/417/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Dial B for Blog</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;">. Adams also illustrated the Batman story </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">“</span><a href="http://hoosierinanity.blogspot.ca/2008/08/batman-237-night-of-reaper.html" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Night of the Reaper</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;"> in which the vengeful Grim Reaper is revealed to be a Nazi-hunting Holocaust survivor. Adams penciled </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">“</span><a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/08/09/arts/Babbitt_pages1-6.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">The Last Outrage”</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;"> (inked by Joe Kubert) which appeared in both </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The New York Times</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;"> and the final issue of the miniseries </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">X-men : Magneto : Testament</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;"> and which also appeared as a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Q-7_jLMs4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #336699; line-height: 23.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 2px; text-decoration-line: none; transform: translateZ(0px); vertical-align: baseline;">stop-motion video on YouTube</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;">. He also co-authored the anthology <i>We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;">*</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.8906px;"><a href="http://ahcomics.com/about-ah/" style="color: #336699;">AH Comics Inc. </a>(A420) is the publisher of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"><i>J</i><a href="http://ahcomics.com/jewish-comix-anthology-volume-1/" style="color: #336699; font-style: italic;">ewish Comix Anthology</a> (vol. 1) and <i><a href="http://ahcomics.com/wordpress/sci-the-jewish-comics-anthology-volume-2/">SCI : Jewish Comics Anthology</a></i> (vol. 2). Andy Stanleigh - writer/artist/publisher - will be at the table throughout Fan Expo.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">* <a href="http://www.willowdawson.com/willowdawsonbio.htm" style="color: #336699;">Willow Dawson</a> (716B on Frday) is </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">,a talented Canadian artist who has illustrated the anthology </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">No Girls Allowed : Tales of Daring Women Dressed as Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, written by </span><a href="http://www.susanhughes.ca/about.php" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">Susan Hughes</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> & published by </span><a href="http://www.kidscanpress.com/kidscanpress/KidsCanPress_3/KCP/f_home.htm" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">Kids Can Press</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">. The anthology includes the story of </span><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Esther_Brandeau.html" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">Esther Brandeau</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, the first Jewish person to immigrate to Canada.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">* <a href="http://adamgorham.daportfolio.com/about/">Adam Gorham</a> (P055A) is the author-illustrator of the stories "The Magic Mirror of Rabbi Adam" and "Yaish and the Protector" (<i>J</i><a href="http://ahcomics.com/jewish-comix-anthology-volume-1/" style="color: #336699; font-style: italic;">ewish Comix Anthology</a> volume 1) and the illustrator of the "Android" pinup (</span><i style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://ahcomics.com/wordpress/sci-the-jewish-comics-anthology-volume-2/">SCI : Jewish Comics Anthology</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> volume 2).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">* Sam Noir (404) is the author of the story "Major North" (<a href="http://tocomix.com/index.php?book=volume_two"><i>Toronto Comics</i> volume 2</a>), which included the Canadian-Jewish character Aaron.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">* </span><span style="color: #333333;">Matthew Rosenberg (P079) is the author of the comic book series <i><a href="http://blackmaskstudios.com/4-kids-walk-into-a-bank/">4 Kids Walk Into A Bank</a></i>, which includes the character Daniel "Berger" Berger aka Crotch the Sticky.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">* <a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/templeton_ty.htm">Ty Templeton </a>(P007A) is the author-illustrator of the adaptation "The Rabbi Who Tested His Metal" (</span><i style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://ahcomics.com/wordpress/sci-the-jewish-comics-anthology-volume-2/">SCI : Jewish Comics Anthology</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> volume 2).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">* </span><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://tocomix.com/?page=about">Toronto Comics</a> (561) is the collective which publishes the eponymous <i>Toronto Comics</i> series of anthologies. <a href="http://tocomix.com/index.php?book=volume_two">Volume 2</a> contained the story "Major North" (by Sam Noir and Christopher Yao) which included the Canadian-Jewish character Aaron. <a href="http://tocomix.com/index.php?book=osgoode_as_gold">Volume 4 (<i>Osgoode as Gold)</i></a> includes the story "Finkel and Sons" by S</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f;">am Ruano, Xan Grey, </span><a data-rapid_p="7" href="https://www.nechamafrier.com/about/" id="yui_3_15_0_2_1526099828574_1330" rel="nofollow" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Nechama Frier</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f;">, & Andrew Thomas</span><span style="color: #333333;">, in which "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f;">a Jewish shopkeeper's son must quickly decide how best to protect his family.</span><span style="color: #333333;">"</span></span><br />
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Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-10124403528901028722018-05-11T21:38:00.001-07:002018-05-11T21:38:50.750-07:00Finkel and Sons<div id="yui_3_15_0_2_1526099828574_1329" style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px;">
The latest Toronto Comics Anthology book - <i id="yui_3_15_0_2_1526099828574_1331">Osgoode as Gold</i> - includes the story "Finkel and Sons" by Sam Ruano, Xan Grey, <a data-rapid_p="7" href="https://www.nechamafrier.com/about/" id="yui_3_15_0_2_1526099828574_1330" rel="nofollow" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Nechama Frier</a>, & Andrew Thomas.</div>
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To see (or purchase) a copy of the anthology, please go to <a data-rapid_p="8" href="http://torontocomicsanthology.com/" id="yui_3_15_0_2_1526099828574_1341" rel="nofollow" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://torontocomicsanthology.com/</a>, and visit one of the Canadian comic shops or attend one of the upcoming Canadian comic shows listed on the main page (sidebar on the right).</div>
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Toronto Comics Anthology will be at the free <a data-rapid_p="9" href="http://www2.torontocomics.com/about-tcaf/" id="yui_3_15_0_2_1526099828574_1325" rel="nofollow" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Toronto Comic Arts Festival</a> (TCAF) today and tomorrow (table 210) at the <a data-rapid_p="10" href="https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/torontoreferencelibrary/" id="yui_3_15_0_2_1526099828574_1323" rel="nofollow" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Toronto Reference Library</a>.</div>
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Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-65402812843218244542018-05-09T22:00:00.000-07:002018-05-11T21:50:35.093-07:00The Jewish Side of TCAF 2018 - this weekend<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">On Saturday, May 12th & Sunday May 13th,, readers, writers, artists, publishers and fans of comix will converge at the <a href="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/hou_az_trl.jsp">Toronto Reference Library</a> ( and nearby venues) to take part in the the FREE <a href="http://torontocomics.com/about-tcaf/">Toronto Comic Arts Festival</a> (aka TCAF).This year marks the 15th anniversary since the first TCAF was held (at a much smaller venue) in 2003.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Among the talented people who will be at TCAF this year are a small number of comix professionals who have done comic art using Jewish characters or themes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.abrams.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Abrams ComicArts</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> (tables 111-112) is the publisher of the </span><a href="http://www.hereville.com/what-is-hereville/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;"><i>Hereville</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> books, the English edition of Pascal Croci's </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Auschwitz</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Yiddiskeit</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">, and the English edition of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Boxer: The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Harry Haft</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> by Reinhard Kleist</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Marguerite Dabaie (tables 103-104) is the author illustrator of the <i>Nib</i> stories "<a href="https://thenib.com/trumps-jerk-move-on-jerusalem">Trump's Jerk Move on Jerusalem: People Already Dying</a>" and "<a href="https://thenib.com/rasmea-odeh">Rasmea Odeh: Woman Without a Country</a>". She was a collaborating illustrator for the <i>World War 3 Illustrated</i> story "<a href="http://margueritedabaie.com/comics/hummuswars1.html">The Hummus Wars</a>". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.europecomics.com/">Europe Comics</a> (tables 131-132) is the publisher of the series <i>The Jewish Brigade, </i></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Red Poster</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Mezek</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Second Generation</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://willowdawson.4ormat.com/biography" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Willow Dawson</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> (table 146) is the illustrator of the anthology </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">No Girls Allowed : Tales of Daring Women Dressed as Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure</i><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">, </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">written by </span><a href="http://www.susanhughes.ca/about.php" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Susan Hughes</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> and published by </span><a href="http://www.kidscanpress.com/kidscanpress/KidsCanPress_3/KCP/f_home.htm" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Kids Can Press</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">. The anthology includes the story of </span><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Esther_Brandeau.html" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Esther Brandeau</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">, the first Jewish person to immigrate to Canada.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/">Fantagraphics Books</a> (tables 148-150) is the publisher of <i>Jewish Images in the Comics, Palestine</i>, and <i>Barracuda in the Attic</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.firstsecondbooks.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">First Second Books</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> (table 200) is the publisher of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Klezmer : Tales of the Wild East</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">, the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Rabbi's Cat</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> books, and the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Resistance </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">series.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.idwpublishing.com/">IDW</a> (tables 128-129) is the publisher of the series <i>Drafted</i> and the book <i>We Spoke Out : Comic Books and the Holocaust</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nicholas Gurewitch (table 291) is the "<a href="http://www.gocomics.com/perry-bible-fellowship">Perry Bible Fellowship</a>" webcomic (formerly a syndicated comic strip), which included <a href="http://home.assets.gocomics.com/perry-bible-fellowship/2017/07/03">one with a Jewish shrimp who has trouble meeting Jewish women</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.supermercadoent.com/bio_contact/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">Yehudi Mercado</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> (table 204) is the author-illustrator of the graphic novel </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">T<a href="http://www.supermercadoent.com/comics-graphic-novels/throne-of-secrets/" style="color: #336699;">hrone of Secrets</a>,</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">which </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.4px;">takes the traditional biblical tale of Queen Esther and "amps up the adventure of this historic epic".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.nbmpub.com/">NBM Graphic Novels</a> (table 133) <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.3333px;">is the publisher of the </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.3333px;">Jew in Communist Prague </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.3333px;">books, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.3333px;">Brownsville</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.3333px;">, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.3333px;">The Big Khan</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.3333px;">, and the </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.3333px;">Isaac the Pirate </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.3333px;">books.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.3333px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.3333px;"><a href="https://hopenicholson.com/about/">Hope Nicholson</a> (table 218) is the editor of the Eisner-nominated <i><a href="http://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/forgotten-yiddish-book-becomes-a-comic/">A Minyan Yidn un Andere Zacken — A Bunch of Jews and Other Stuff</a></i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://rhymeswithorange.com/about/">Hilary Price</a> (tables 273-274) is the "Rhymes with Orange" cartoonist who has used her syndicated comic strip to tell many Jewish jokes (although not exclusively). A collection of her Jewish strips titled <i>Hanukkomics</i> may be purchased at <a href="http://www.indyplanet.us/comics/100030/">http://www.indyplanet.us/comics/100030/</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 17.3333px;"><a href="http://rotsztain.com/">Jonathan Rotsztain</a> (Zineland Terrace, 2 Bloor Ave. W.) is the author-illustrator of the self-published works <i><a href="http://rotsztain.com/comics/self_loving_jew/self_loving_jew.html">Self-Loving Jew</a> </i>and <i><a href="http://rotsztain.com/comics/auto_bio/autobio.html">Journey into Jonathan</a>.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://torontocomicsanthology.com/">Toronto Comics Anthology</a> (table 210) is the publisher of <i>Osgoode as Gold</i>, which includes the story "Finkel and Sons", about <span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f;">a Jewish shopkeeper's son who must quickly decide how best to protect his family.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.korenshadmi.com/"><br /></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Julian Voloj (table 133) is the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">author of the graphic memoirs </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Joe Shuster Story: The Artist Behind Superman</i><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">10:30 AM – NCS: Rhymes With Orange – Hilary Price created the newspaper comics strip Rhymes With Orange by herself for 22 years. Then everything changed. Toronto-based cartoonist Rina Piccolo and Hilary Price reflect on their now one-year-old collaboration on Rhymes With Orange. What’s it’s like to bring on a new partner after working on a project by yourself for more than 2 decades? Come find out!</span></div>
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* <a href="http://www.kubertschool.edu/about.html">The Joe Kubert Art School</a> (founded by the author-illustrator of <i>Yossel : April 19, 1943</i>, <i>Jew Gangster</i>, and <i>Yaakov and Isaac</i>)</div>
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* <a href="https://fabricesapolsky.com/about/">Fabrice Sapolsky</a> </div>
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* <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaac-goodhart-910aa254/">Isaac Goodhart</a></div>
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* Israel Defense Comics (series written & illustrated by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-stulman-42493028/">Joshua Stulman</a>)</div>
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* Esther Shapiro</div>
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* <a href="https://www.bxhcc.com/history.html">Bronx Heroes Comics</a></div>
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* <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Julian Voloj </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(author of the graphic memoirs </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Joe Shuster Story: The Artist Behind Superman</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">)</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">. </span></div>
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* <a href="http://dannyfingeroth.com/about-danny-fingeroth/short-biography/" style="color: #336699; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Danny Fingeroth</a><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> (author of </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero</i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">)</span></div>
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* Jesse Lee (illustrator <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">of the graphic biography of Simon Wiesenthal, </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Simon Says</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">* </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Neil Kleid </span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">(</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Xeric award-winning author / illustrator of </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060916044927/http://www.rantcomics.com/STABLERODS.html" style="color: #336699; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><i>Stable Rods</i></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, "Shomer Negiah", </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Pilgrimage : Two Weeks in G-d's Country</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, the graphic novels </span><a href="http://www.rantcomics.com/BROWNSVILLE.html" style="color: #336699; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><i>Brownsville</i></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> and </span><span style="color: #336699; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><a href="http://nbmpub.com/blog/2008/11/30/big-kahn-big-preview/" style="color: #336699; font-style: italic;">The Big Khan</a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> and "Babel" in the forthcoming <i>SCI : Jewish Comics Anthology</i>, vol. 2)</span></div>
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Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-35243434194421903952018-04-24T20:43:00.000-07:002018-04-24T21:30:29.589-07:00Jewish Comic Con - programming - April 29, 2018Below is the <a href="http://jewishcomiccon.org/programming">programming schedule</a> for this Sunday's 2nd annual <a href="http://jewishcomiccon.org/">Jewish Comic Con</a>. I've essentially copied-&-pasted from the website, but I've added in a bit of detail and created hyperlinks where I could.<br />
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The Jewish Comic Con will be held at Congregation Kol Israel (not to be confused with "Congregation Kal-El" aka the Superman Shul) at 603 Johns Place in Brooklyn, New York 11238.<br />
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<strong style="word-wrap: break-word;">8:00<span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> AM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> - MORNING SERVICE</strong> -- What do you do when you organize a comic book convention in a synagogue ? You start the day with the <em style="word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1320073/jewish/ShacharitMorning-Prayers.htm">Sha’haris</a></em> morning service led by <a href="https://forward.com/culture/380339/can-this-28-year-old-rabbi-save-a-landmark-brooklyn-synagogue/">Rabbi Sam Reinstein</a>. Open to everyone, whether you have a pass or not. A light breakfast will be served after the service.</div>
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<strong style="word-wrap: break-word;">9:00</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> AM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> – 9:55</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> AM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> - COLLECTORS ON THE MIC'</strong> -- Collectors Dr Martin Brody and Michael Lustig will be discussing their passions in collecting comics. Both have dedicated and recognized collections in particular to Jewish themed and Holocaust related collections </div>
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<strong style="word-wrap: break-word;">10:00</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> AM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> – 10:55</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> AM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> - REPRESENTATION IN COMICS</strong> -- Representation matters more than ever in comics these days. And what better place than Jewish Comic Con to highlight what it means for our medium and how it was not designed to be a place where representation was a thing to begin with! Panelists include: <a href="https://fabricesapolsky.com/about/">Fabrice Sapolsky</a> (<em style="word-wrap: break-word;">Intertwined</em>), <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-felix-3786ba39/">Ray Felix </a>(<em style="word-wrap: break-word;">Bronx Heroes Comics</em>), <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaac-goodhart-910aa254/">Isaac Goodhart </a>(<em style="word-wrap: break-word;">Postal</em>), Kwanza Osajyefo (<em style="word-wrap: break-word;">Black</em>). More guests to be announced. Moderated by: <a href="http://dannyfingeroth.com/about-danny-fingeroth/short-biography/">Danny Fingeroth</a> (author of <i>Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero</i>) and <a href="http://www.ariekaplan.com/about/">Arie Kaplan</a> (author of <i>From Krakow to Krypton : Jews and Comic Books</i>).</div>
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<strong style="word-wrap: break-word;">11:00</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> AM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> – 11:55</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> AM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> - <a href="http://www.willeisner.com/library/a-contract-with-god.html">A CONTRACT WITH GOD</a> AT 40</strong> -- The legendary graphic novel created by <a href="http://www.willeisner.com/biography/index.html">Will Eisner</a> turns 40 this year. <a href="http://dannyfingeroth.com/about-danny-fingeroth/short-biography/" style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Danny Fingeroth</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> (author of </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">) </span>and <a href="http://www.ariekaplan.com/about/" style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Arie Kaplan</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> (author of </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">From Krakow to Krypton : Jews and Comic Books</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">)</span> take a closer look at one of the collection of stories that probably captured the New York Jewish life the best.</div>
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<strong style="word-wrap: break-word;">12:00</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> PM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> – 12:45</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> PM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> - SPOTLIGHT ON DR RUTH!</strong>-- The Jewish Comic Con is honored to welcome <a href="https://www.biography.com/people/dr-ruth-westheimer-9542073">Dr Ruth Westerheime</a>r (does she really need an introduction?) to talk about her recently published graphic novel: <em style="word-wrap: break-word;">Roller Coaster Grandma</em>. The panel will be followed by a signing session in the room. </div>
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<strong style="word-wrap: break-word;">12:45</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> PM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> – 1:15</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> PM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> - AFTERNOON SERVICE (<a href="http://www.aish.com/jl/m/pb/Mincha_-_The_Afternoon_Prayer.html">MIN’HA</a>)</strong> -- Yes! We’re still in a synagogue. So the main hall will shift back to temple mode for a 30- minute quick service with <a href="https://forward.com/culture/380339/can-this-28-year-old-rabbi-save-a-landmark-brooklyn-synagogue/" style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Rabbi Sam Reinstein</a>!</div>
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<strong style="word-wrap: break-word;">1:00</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> PM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> – 1:55</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> PM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> - SHOAH IN COMICS </strong>-- Zakhor! Remembrance in Hebrew. Let's never forget about the Shoah (the Holocaust). And comics have certainly been doing their part in making sure nobody ever forgets. Join <a href="http://dannyfingeroth.com/about-danny-fingeroth/short-biography/" style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Danny Fingeroth</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> (author of </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">)</span> and <a href="http://www.ariekaplan.com/about/" style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Arie Kaplan</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> (author of </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">From Krakow to Krypton : Jews and Comic Books</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">)</span> as they talk about those important comics with survivor and artist <a href="http://www.miriamkatin.com/some-facts/">Miriam Katin</a> (author-illustrator of <i>We Are On Our Own</i> and <i>Leting It Go</i>), historian <a href="http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007037">Rafael Medoff</a> (co-author of <i>W</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><i>e Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust</i>)<i> </i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">and publisher <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigyoe/">Craig Yoe</a> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">(co-author of </span><i style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">W</i><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><i>e Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">) .</span></div>
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<strong style="word-wrap: break-word;">2:00</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> PM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> – 2:55</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> PM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> - <a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lee_s.htm">STAN LEE</a> AND <a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kirby.htm">JACK KIRBY</a>: INFINITE VISIONARIES</strong> -- Who were the founders of the Marvel Universe? Visionaries for sure! Let's take a trip down to memory lane to revisit the early days of Marvel. Where it all began. With <a href="http://dannyfingeroth.com/about-danny-fingeroth/short-biography/" style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Danny Fingeroth</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> (author of </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, </span> who's working on a Stan Lee biography), <a href="http://www.ariekaplan.com/about/" style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Arie Kaplan</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> (author of </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">From Krakow to Krypton : Jews and Comic Books</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">)</span> and <a href="http://www.deanhaspiel.com/">Dean Haspiel</a> (<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">illustrator of </span><a href="http://lambiek.net/artists/p/pekar_harvey.htm" style="color: #336699; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Harvey Pekar</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">'s autobiography </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Quitter </i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">The Red Hook</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">). </span></div>
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<strong style="word-wrap: break-word;">3:00</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> PM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> – 3:55</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> PM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> - <a href="https://www.supermanhomepage.com/">SUPERMAN</a> AT 80</strong> -- He was the first superhero of modern era. He turns 80 years old this year. Superman is a hero unlike any other. Why is he still relevant today? How two Jews from Cleveland (one originally from Toronto) defined what comic books would become without even knowing it? And how <a href="http://jinxworld.com/wordpress/?page_id=12">Brian Bendis</a> being the new writer on the series could change everything? Join us to hear all about it! Panelists: <a href="http://dannyfingeroth.com/about-danny-fingeroth/short-biography/" style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Danny Fingeroth</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> (author of </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">)</span>, <a href="http://www.ariekaplan.com/about/" style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Arie Kaplan</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> (author of </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">From Krakow to Krypton : Jews and Comic Books</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">)</span>, Neil Kleid <span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">(</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Xeric award-winning author / illustrator of </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060916044927/http://www.rantcomics.com/STABLERODS.html" style="color: #336699; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><i>Stable Rods</i></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, "Shomer Negiah", </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Pilgrimage : Two Weeks in G-d's Country</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, the graphic novels </span><a href="http://www.rantcomics.com/BROWNSVILLE.html" style="color: #336699; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><i>Brownsville</i></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> and </span><span style="color: #336699; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><a href="http://nbmpub.com/blog/2008/11/30/big-kahn-big-preview/" style="color: #336699; font-style: italic;">The Big Khan</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> and "Babel" in the forthcoming <i>SCI : Jewish Comics Anthology</i>, vol. 2)</span> and Julian Voloj <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: normal;">(author of the graphic memoirs </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: normal;">Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: normal;"> and </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: normal;">The Joe Shuster Story: The Artist Behind Superman</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: normal;">)</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">. </span></div>
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<strong style="word-wrap: break-word;">4:00</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> PM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> – 4:55</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> PM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> - BROOKLYN: THE TOUGH JEWS PANEL!</strong> -- When you think of Brooklyn, you don't just think of Kol Israel! You think about comics. Brooklyn and its vibrant jewish life has been covered in comics. Neil Kleid (<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Xeric award-winning author / illustrator of </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060916044927/http://www.rantcomics.com/STABLERODS.html" style="color: #336699; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>Stable Rods</i></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, "Shomer Negiah", </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Pilgrimage : Two Weeks in G-d's Country</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, the graphic novels </span><a href="http://www.rantcomics.com/BROWNSVILLE.html" style="color: #336699; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>Brownsville</i></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and </span><span style="color: #336699; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://nbmpub.com/blog/2008/11/30/big-kahn-big-preview/" style="color: #336699; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;">The Big Khan</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> and "Babel" in the forthcoming <i>SCI : Jewish Comics Anthology</i>, vol. 2) and </span><a href="http://www.deanhaspiel.com/" style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Dean Haspiel</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> (</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">illustrator of </span><a href="http://lambiek.net/artists/p/pekar_harvey.htm" style="color: #336699; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Harvey Pekar</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">'s autobiography </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">The Quitter </i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">and </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">The Red Hook</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">)</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> will sit down with us to describe their Brooklyn.</span></div>
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<strong style="word-wrap: break-word;">5:00</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> PM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> – 5:55</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> PM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> - </strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;">THE JEWISH ROOTS OF WONDER WOMAN -- </strong>Wonder Woman has been given many origin stories through the ages. Who thought the Greek princess could've been connected to the Chosen People? Intrigued? <span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> </span><a href="http://dannyfingeroth.com/about-danny-fingeroth/short-biography/" style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Danny Fingeroth</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> (author of </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">)</span> and <span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> </span><a href="http://www.ariekaplan.com/about/" style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Arie Kaplan</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> (author of </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">From Krakow to Krypton : Jews and Comic Books</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px;">)</span> browse Diana's past. Guest panelist: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindy-newell-99462432/">Mindy Newell</a> who wrote Wonder Woman's adventures in the past!<strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> </strong></div>
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<strong style="word-wrap: break-word;">6:00</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> PM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> – 6:55</strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; word-wrap: break-word;"> PM</span></strong><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"> - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jewishfangirls/">NICE JEWISH FANGIRLS</a>: WOMEN NAVIGATING IN FANDOM</strong> -- Join the hosts of the <a href="https://jewishcoffeehouse.com/nice-jewish-fangirls/">Nice Jewish Fangirls podcas</a>t as they take a broader look at what it's like to be Jewish, female, and nerdy in the current pop-culture landscape.</div>
Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-55878564839264054382018-04-23T21:23:00.000-07:002018-04-23T21:23:13.395-07:00POW!!! Jewish Comic Art and Influence - panel discussionIn conjunction with the launch of the <a href="https://jewishartsalon.org/2018/02/28/pow-jewish-comic-art-and-influence/">POW!!! Jewish Comic Art and Influence</a> exhibition on Thursday, April 26th, the <a href="https://jewishartsalon.org/about-j-a-s/">Jewish Art Salon</a> and the <a href="https://www.brooklynjewishartgallery.com/about-us/">Brooklyn Jewish Art Gallery</a> are presenting a <a href="https://jewishartsalon.org/2018/03/13/panel-discussion-pow-the-confluence-of-jewish-identity-comics-and-fine-art/">panel discussion</a> on the exhibit, starting from 7:00 - 9:00 PM, EST at Brooklyn Jewish Art Gallery, 603 St. Johns Place, Brooklyn NY, 11238<br />
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*<a href="http://www.joelsilversteinart.com/statement.html"> Joel Silverstein </a>(artist and co-curator of the exhibit, panel moderator)<br />
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* <a href="https://www.goldiegross.com/bio/">Goldie Gross</a> (artist and co-curator of the exhibit)<br />
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* <a href="https://bklyner.com/meet-joshua-stulman-founder-brooklyn-comic-shop-fortgreene/">Joshua Stulman</a> (illustrator of the comic book series <i>Israeli Defense Comics</i>, the <i><a href="http://ahcomics.com/jewish-comix-anthology-volume-1/">Jewish Comix Anthology</a> </i>story "How To Fill a Room" and co-curator of the exhibit)<br />
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* <a href="https://www.archierand.com/">Archie Rand </a>(author-illustrator of <i><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317788/the-613-by-archie-rand/9780399173769/">The 613</a></i>)<br />
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* Rabbi Simcha Weinstein (author of <i>Up, Up and Oy Vey, How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero</i> and a forthcoming graphic autobiography)<br />
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* Julian Voloj (author of the graphic memoirs <i>Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker</i> and <i>The Joe Shuster Story: The Artist Behind Superman</i>)<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arimo-1, arimo-2, sans-serif; font-size: 16.9px;">The explosive creativity of contemporary Jewish Art extends through the private and public worlds of exhibition and publication. Jewish Comics and contemporary Jewish “Fine” Art are both changing Jewish identity in new and unexpected ways. Come see painters, comic book artists, graphic novelists and authors discuss their creative process and what Judaism means to them. This experience is defining Judaism in ways unheard of in years past and is creating a body of work that will tell future generations what it means to be Jewish in the 21</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arimo-1, arimo-2, sans-serif; font-size: 0.769231em; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">st</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arimo-1, arimo-2, sans-serif; font-size: 16.9px;"> Century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arimo-1, arimo-2, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.9px;">This event is co-sponsored by Hadas Gallery, Rohr Center and<a href="http://ahcomics.com/wordpress/"> AH Comics</a>, publisher of <i>SCI: The Jewish Comics Anthology</i>, Vol. 2, edited by Steve Bergson and B<a href="http://www.bechollashon.org/about/mission.php">e’chol Lashon</a>.</span></span><br />
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Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-78241095954320178752018-04-23T20:54:00.000-07:002018-04-23T20:54:05.393-07:00Jews & Comics in NYCThose who have been reading my blog will recall that I try to focus in on the Jews-&-Comics content of conventions & conferences.<div>
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For Jewish conferences, the post will typically be titled "The Comics Side of ...."</div>
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For comic conventions, the post will typically be titled "The Jewish Side of ...."</div>
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For my next 3 posts, I won't be using either title. You see, the 3 Jewish Comic Con events are all 100% comics-related and 100% Jewish.</div>
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I missed out on the chance to blog about Jewish Comic Con last year, but this year, I'll be just under the wire, so to speak.</div>
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Stay tuned for all the cool info!</div>
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Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-45391894425030827072017-07-19T22:49:00.000-07:002017-07-19T22:49:20.387-07:00The Jewish Side of San Diego Comic Con 2017<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My apologies for posting this so late.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Today is the first full day of the annual <a href="https://www.comic-con.org/cci">San Diego Comic Con Internationa</a>l (aka Comicon).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As with many previous years, there will be many creators (writers, artists, editors, publishers) who will be in attendance who have created comic stories with Jewish content in attendance. There will also be a book launch and discussion for an anthology of Jewish stories titled <i>A Minyen Yidn (A Bunch of Jews</i>). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Among the participants will be :</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.abrams.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Abrams ComicArts</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> (1216) is the publisher of the </span><a href="http://www.hereville.com/what-is-hereville/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;"><i>Hereville</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> books, the English edition of Pascal Croci's </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Auschwitz</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Yiddiskeit</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">, and the English edition of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Boxer: The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Harry Haft</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> by Reinhard Kleist</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.nealadams.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Neal Adams </a> (1815) <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;">is the illustrator of the “Son O’ God” stories, which appeared in the pages of </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Lampoon</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;">. You may read all of the Son O’God stories (as well as the story of how Adams was recruited to be the artist) at </span><a href="http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/417/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Dial B for Blog</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;">. Adams also illustrated the Batman story </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">“</span><a href="http://hoosierinanity.blogspot.ca/2008/08/batman-237-night-of-reaper.html" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Night of the Reaper</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;"> in which the vengeful Grim Reaper is revealed to be a Nazi-hunting Holocaust survivor. Adams penciled </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">“</span><a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/08/09/arts/Babbitt_pages1-6.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">The Last Outrage”</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;"> (inked by Andy Kubert’s father, Joe Kubert) which appeared in both </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The New York Times</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;"> and the final issue of the miniseries </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">X-men : Magneto : Testament</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;"> and which also appeared as a </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Q-7_jLMs4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #336699; line-height: 23.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 2px; text-decoration-line: none; transform: translateZ(0px); vertical-align: baseline;">stop-motion video on YouTube</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23.8px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><a href="http://www.antarctic-press.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">Antarctic Press</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> (2307) is the publisher of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Families of Altered Wars</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> [which included the "Stars of David" storyline] and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Dictators of the Twentieth Century : Hitler</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> #1-4.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> <a href="http://www.sergioaragones.com/bio.htm" style="color: #336699;">Sergio Aragonés</a> (I-07) is the <span style="line-height: 16.9px;">illustrator of the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=32686140" style="color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">"Fanny Hillman : Jewish Madam"</a> <span style="line-height: 16.9px;">books and he adapted the Jonah story for </span><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">Testament.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Arsenic Lullaby (2200)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i> </i>- issue #12 contains "Pilsbury Doughboy at Auschwitz".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">Bongo Comics Group (2519) is the publisher of the Simpsons franchise comics, which includes </span></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Simpsons Winter Wing Ding</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> #3 ("</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Not a (Green, Slimy) Creature was Stirring"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">), </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Simpsons Winter Wing Ding</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> #1 (</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">"The Gift of the Maccabees"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">), </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Simpsons Holiday Humdinger </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">(</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">"Con-Nukah!"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Simpsons #62 ("</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Li'l Krusty in Give a Hoot, Stay in School</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">"), <i>Krusty Comics </i> #3 ("</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">The Rise and Fall of Krustyland, Part Three</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">", and <i>Simpsons Comics </i>#62 ("Bart Simpson's Bible Stories"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">Drawn and Quarterly</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> (1629) is the publisher of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Property</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Exit Wounds</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Jamalti and Other Stories</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Golem’s Mighty Swing</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Jerusalem : Chronicles from the Holy City</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Toward a Hot Jew</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.3333px;">D+Q also published the story "The Peasant and the Snake" in one of its anthologies, which has been reprinted in </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.3333px;"><a href="http://www.jewishcomicsanthology.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #00635d;">Jewish Comix Anthology</a>.</em></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.europecomics.com/">Europe Comics</a> (5524) is the publisher of <i>The Jewish Brigade</i>,<i> The Red Poster</i>, <i>Mezek</i>, and <i>Second Generation</i>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"><a href="http://dannyfingeroth.com/about-danny-fingeroth/full-biography" style="color: #336699;">Danny Fingeroth</a> (Will Eisner : Portrait of a Sequential Artist session ; Who's the Most Neurotic Superhero session) </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 16.9px;">is the author of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 16.9px;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1409502.Disguised_as_Clark_Kent" style="color: #336699;">Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero</a>.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.firstsecondbooks.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">First Second Books</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> (2800) is the publisher of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Klezmer : Tales of the Wild East</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">, the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Rabbi's Cat</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> books, and the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Resistance </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">series.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Mark Evanier (Jack Kirby : Friends and Family session) is the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">author of a Crossfire story for a Free Comic Book Day comic involving a Holocaust survivor who tries to kill a suspected Nazi war criminal.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/" style="color: #336699;">Fantagraphics Books</a> (1721) is the publisher of <i>Jewish Images in the Comics, Palestine</i>, and <i>Barracuda in the Attic</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><a href="http://sarahglidden.com/about-2/" style="color: #336699;">Sarah Glidden</a> (Biographical and Autobiographical Comics session ; Spotlight on Sarah Glidden session) is the author-illustrator of the autobiographical </span><em>How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less!</em><em style="line-height: 16.8906px;">,</em><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"> which was nominated for the <a href="http://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=5312597&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1" style="color: #336699;">2012 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list</a> and has illustrated a story for <i>A Minyen Yidn</i>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mike Grell (GG-16) is the <span style="line-height: 16.9px;">author-illustrator of </span><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">Green Arrow</i><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"> #57-58 and </span><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">Jon Sable : Freelance</i><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"> #22-24.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://imagecomics.com/" style="color: #336699;">Image Comics</a> (2729)was the publisher of the series <i>Youngblood</i> (which included the Israeli superheroine Masada) and half of the <i>Rex Mundi</i> series<i>.</i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Scott Koblish (II-03) is the inker of the story "Remembrance of Things Past" <i>Fantastic Four </i>#56.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.peterkuper.com/bio/bio.html" style="color: #336699;">Peter Kuper</a> is the author-illustrator of the short biographical story "Promised Land" in <i>Bleeding Heart</i> #2, as well as the book-length autobiographical <i>Stop Forgetting to Remember : The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz.</i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.lastgasp.com/" style="color: #336699;">Last Gasp</a> (1500) is the publisher of <i style="color: #336699;"><a href="http://www.lastgasp.com/d/36541/" style="color: #336699;">Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero, from the Creators of Superman</a>.</i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://lambiek.net/artists/l/lee_s.htm" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">Stan Lee</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> (</span><span style="color: #333333;">Stan Lee and Friends: A Celebrity Tribute to the Comics Legend session</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">) is the Jewish comics legend who co-created the Fantastic Four {which has a Jewish chartacter called The Thing} and who appeared in the story </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=32686140" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">"What if the Original Marvel Bullpen was the Fantastic Four?"</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">What If?</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> #11.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">Paul Levitz (</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;">Paul Levitz in Conversation with Karen Berger session</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">) is the author of </span><a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/911/images/01905v.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">"Tradition"</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">in</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">DC Comics' 9-11 September 11th 2001.</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">Miriam Libicki (M-07) is the </span><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">author-illustrator of the<a href="http://www.realgonegirl.com/comix.html" style="color: #336699;"> </a></span><i style="line-height: 16.9px;"><a href="http://www.realgonegirl.com/comix.html" style="color: #336699;">jobnik!</a></i><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"> series (the first volume of which has been collected in trade paperback), the illustrated essays "Towards a Hot Jew: The Israeli Soldier as Fetish Object" ,"Jewish Memoir Goes Pow! Zap! Oy!", "<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/614819/pdf">Strange-ing the Welcomer : A Theory of Black and White and Jews All Over</a>", and the illustrated mini-journals </span><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">Ceasefire</i><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">, </span><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">Fierce Ease, </i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> "</span><a href="http://www.ilanotreview.com/foreign-bodies/strangers/" style="background-color: white;">Strangers : A Long Distance View of Israe</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">l" and "<a href="https://www.cleavermagazine.com/turning-right-on-cassady-by-miriam-libicki/">Turning Right on Cassady</a>"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">. She also contributed a story to the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.jewishcomicsanthology.com/" style="color: #336699;">Jewish Comix Anthology</a> </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">and <i>A Minyen Yidn</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.linsner.com/" style="color: #336699;">Joseph Michael Lisner</a> (4900) is the illustrator of the story "Corporate Ladder" which appeared in the series <i>Cry for Dawn</i>).</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20081121050759/http://www.maggin.com/CA24/ESMBio.php" style="color: #336699;">Elliot S! Maggin</a> (GG-12) is the author of the Passover seder-inspired short comic story <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=32686140" style="color: #336699;">"The Miracle Monday Dinner"</a> in <i>Superman</i> #400.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.jimmahfood.com/about/" style="color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Jim Mahfood</a><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"> (Image Comics : Your New Favorite Series session) is the author-illustrator of </span><i style="line-height: 16.9px;"><a href="http://www.jimmahfood.com/projects/grrl-scouts/" style="color: #336699;">Grrl Scouts</a></i><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://hopenicholson.com/about/" style="color: #336699;">Hope Nicholson</a><span style="color: #181818;"> (Geeking Out on Secret Loves session) is the editor of the forthcoming </span><i style="color: #181818;"><a href="http://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/forgotten-yiddish-book-becomes-a-comic/" style="color: #336699;">A Minyan Yidn un Andere Zacken — A Bunch of Jews and Other Stuff. </a></i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.paperfilms.com/home.html" style="color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Jimmy Palmiotti</a><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"> (Crowdfunding Success Stories! session) is the </span><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">co-creator of the short-lived golem series </span><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">The Monolith</i><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"> from DC Comics. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><a href="http://www.trinarobbins.com/Trina_Robbins/Welcome.html" style="color: #336699;">Trina Robbins</a> (A Bunch of Jews (A Minyen Yiden) session ; Women Creators Breaking Stereotypes session) is the author-illustrator of the story <a href="http://jewishcomics.blogspot.ca/2011/03/triangle-fire-comic-by-trina-robbins.html" style="color: #336699;">"The Triangle Fire"</a> which was the cover story of the 2nd issue </span><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">of </span><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">Lilith Magazine</i><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">, the author of the graphic biography </span><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer</i><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">, and the co-author of an adaptation of a Jewish song which was reprinted in </span><a href="http://www.jewishcomicsanthology.com/" style="color: #336699; font-style: italic; line-height: 16.9px;">The Jewish Comics Anthology</a> and author of </span></span></span><i>A Minyen Yidn (A Bunch of Jews). </i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://lambiek.net/artists/s/sienkiewicz.htm" style="color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Bill Sienkiewicz</a><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"> (1714) is the illustrator of the story "Night Screams" in </span><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">X-Men</i><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">#159, in which Kitty is saved from Dracula by her Star of David necklace and </span><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">illustrator of the story "Into the Abyss" in </span><a href="http://geekculture-lifeonthehellmouth.blogspot.ca/2011/01/chronological-x-men-legion-review.html" style="color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;"><i>New Mutants</i> #27</a><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">, which had the Israeli mutant character Legion.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.rsikoryak.com/" style="color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Robert Sikoryak</a><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"> (table Q18) is a cartoonist who has adapted classic stories into comic-style retellings, including a Dagwood-style "Adam and Eve", which was reprinted in </span><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">Masterpiece Comics.</i></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i style="line-height: 16.9px;"><br /></i></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">Gail Simone (autographing at AA-18 ; Spotlight on Gail Simone session) wrote the story "Li'l Krusty in Give a Hoot, Stay in School" in <i>Simpsons</i> #62, </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">as well as </span><a href="http://comicfacts.blogspot.ca/2006/01/guess-whos-coming-to-shabbos-dinner.html" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">"A Contagion of Madness"</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Action Comics</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> #835.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17865500811519708857" style="color: #336699;">Emily Steinberg</a> (</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">International Collaborative TransMedia Narrative Comics session</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">) is the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">author-illustrator of the autobiographical</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Graphic Therapy : Notes from the Gap Years</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">, which is being sold at</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17865500811519708857" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Lulu.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><a href="http://www.jmscomics.com/" style="color: #336699;">J. Michael Straczynski</a> (autographing at AA-21 ; Spotlight on </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;">J. Michael Straczynski session) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">is the author of the <i>Spider-Man</i> story "You Want Pants with That?" and the</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Rising Stars</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> story "Selah".</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.viz.com/">Viz Media</a> (2813) is the publisher of the 5-part graphic book series <i>Adolf</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Len Wein (HH-06) is the writer of the golem story in Strange Tales #174 - see <a href="http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/golem1.htm" style="color: #336699;">http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/golem1.htm</a>.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.marvwolfman.com/" style="color: #336699;">Marv Wolfman</a> (AA-05) is the author of the story "Return from the Grave!" in <i>Tomb of Dracula</i> #27, "Introducing the Hybrid" in <i>The New Teen Titans</i> #24 and <i>Homeland : The Illustrated History of the State of Israel.</i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">On Sunday (11:30 AM), there will be the following panel :</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A Conversation About Inclusivity and Diversity in Comics and the Comics Market</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hear a diverse mix of creators and booksellers discuss diverse characters in comics, finding and audience for them, and the impact that the push for inclusiveness has had on the comics both creatively and financially.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i style="line-height: 16.9px;"><br /></i></span></span></span></span>Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-9220703120324074422017-05-11T21:48:00.000-07:002017-05-11T21:48:01.209-07:00The Jewish Side of TCAF 2017 - this weekend<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On Saturday, May 13th & Sunday May 14th,, readers, writers, artists, publishers and fans of comix will converge at the <a href="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/hou_az_trl.jsp">Toronto Reference Library</a> ( and nearby venues) to take part in the the FREE <a href="http://torontocomics.com/about-tcaf/">Toronto Comic Arts Festival</a> (aka TCAF).This year marks the 14th anniversary since the first TCAF was held (at a much smaller venue) in 2003.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Among the talented people who will be at TCAF this year are a small number of comix professionals who have done comic art using Jewish characters or themes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://ahcomics.com/about-ah/">AH Comics Inc.</a> (table 277) is the publisher of <i><a href="http://www.jewishcomicsanthology.com/">Jewish Comix Anthology, volume 1</a></i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.jalekseyeva.com/about/">Julia Alekseyeva</a> (table 307) is the author illustrator of the graphic memoir <i>Soviet Daughter : A Graphic Revolution.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.hannahblumenreich.com/about/">Hannah Blumenreich</a> (table 278) is a freelancer who has done work for Marvel and Boom. One of her Tumblr illustrations titled "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><a href="http://hannahblumenreich.tumblr.com/post/145235888939/jew-crew-assemblllleee-theres-nine-here-can">jew crew: ASSEMBLLLLEEE!!</a>" </span><span style="background-color: white;">shows a montage of 9 Jewish superheroes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/brown.htm">Chester Brown</a> (signing 10-12 on Saturday) is the author and illustrator of <i>Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus : Prostitution and Religious Obedience in the Bible</i> which includes adaptations of the stories of Cain and Abel, Job, Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Basthsheba.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.hereville.com/about-the-cartoonist/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">Barry Deutsch</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> (table 202) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">is the 2011 Sydney Taylor Award winner for </span><a href="http://www.hereville.com/what-is-hereville/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;"><i>Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/">Drawn and Quarterly</a> (tables 145, 148-150) is the publisher of <i>The Property</i>, <i>Exit Wounds</i>, <i>Jamalti and Other Stories</i>, <i>The Golem’s Mighty Swing</i>, <i>Jerusalem : Chronicles from the Holy City</i>, <i>Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, </i>and <i>Toward a Hot Jew</i>. <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.3333px;">D+Q also published the story "The Peasant and the Snake" in one of its anthologies, which has been reprinted in </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 17.3333px;"><a href="http://www.jewishcomicsanthology.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #00635d;">Jewish Comix Anthology</a>.</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/">Fantagraphics Books</a> (tables 132-134) is the publisher of <i>Jewish Images in the Comics, Palestine</i>, and <i>Barracuda in the Attic</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.firstsecondbooks.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">First Second Books</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> (tables 204-205) is the publisher of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Klezmer : Tales of the Wild East</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">, the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Rabbi's Cat</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> books, and the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Resistance </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">series.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://lambiek.net/artists/d/delisle_guy.htm" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">Guy Delisle</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> (signing 11:30-12:30, 1:30-2:30 & 2:30-3:30 on Saturday, 12:30-1:30, 4:00-5:00 on Sunday) is a French-Canadian cartoonist, well known for his graphic travelogues, including </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Chronicles : A Year In Jerusalem</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://lambiek.net/artists/h/harkham_sammy.htm" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">Sammy Harkham</a> (table 129) is the <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">author-illustrator of "Lubavitch, Ukraine 1876", which appeared in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Kramer's Ergot</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> #6.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;"><a href="http://joeinfurnari.com/blog/about/" style="color: #336699;">Joe Infurnari</a> (Masonic Temple) is</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> the cartoonist who wrote and illustrated "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"><a href="http://heebmagazine.com/assets_from_cakephp/uploaded_photos/comix_17_1148.jpg">Workin' Girl Golem</a>"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">, which is</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> reprinted in <a href="http://www.jewishcomicsanthology.com/" style="color: #336699;"><i>The Jewish Comix Antholog</i>y</a> (copies for sale at table 277).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.kerenkatz.carbonmade.com/about" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">Keren Katz</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> (table 233) is the illustrator of the sto</span><span style="background-color: white;">ry "</span><span style="background-color: white;">Solomon </span><span style="background-color: white;">ibn Gabirol's</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Golem</span><span style="background-color: white;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #336699;"><a href="http://www.jewishcomicsanthology.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">The Jewish Comix Anthology</a> </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">(copies for sale at table 277).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i style="color: #333333;"> </i><a href="http://matt-lub.com/" style="color: #336699;">Matt Lubchansk</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">y (tables 321-323) is a Jewish cartoonist who writes and illustrates the webcomic </span><a href="http://www.listen-tome.com/" style="color: #336699;">Please Listen to Me</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">. His 3-ingredient Passover brisket recipe comic was published online at </span><a href="http://www.saveur.com/article/blog/recipe-comix-a-brisket-with-secret-sauce" style="color: #336699;">Saveur</a> and his response to the use of Holocaust imagery in Trump's America was included in the piece "<a href="https://thenib.com/never-again">Never Again?</a>" (<i>The Nib</i>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 17.3333px;"><a href="http://rotsztain.com/">Jonathan Rotsztain</a> (table Q12) is the author-illustrator of the self-published works <i><a href="http://rotsztain.com/comics/self_loving_jew/self_loving_jew.html">Self-Loving Jew</a> </i>and <i><a href="http://rotsztain.com/comics/auto_bio/autobio.html">Journey into Jonathan</a>.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.korenshadmi.com/">Koren Shadmi</a> (signing 1-2 and 2-3 on Saturday and 1-2 on Sunday) is the illustrator of the graphic book <i>Mike's Place: A True Story of Love, Blues, and Terror in Tel Aviv</i>, "S<a href="http://www.korenshadmi.com/works/comics/?id=296">napshots from Israel</a>" (for the <i>New York Times</i>) and "<a href="http://www.korenshadmi.com/works/comics/Childhood-Heroes">Childhood Heroes</a>" (for <i>Tablet Magazine</i>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.rsikoryak.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Robert Sikoryak</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> (table Q18) is a cartoonist who has adapted classic stories into comic-style retellings, including a Dagwood-style "Adam and Eve", which was reprinted in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Masterpiece Comics.</i></span><br />
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<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">01:30 PM – <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Spotlight: <a href="http://lambiek.net/artists/d/delisle_guy.htm">Guy Delisle</a></strong> – Guy Delisle has become one of the most well-known cartoonists in the world with his bestselling travelogues about everyday life in faraway and complex countries <i>Pyongyang</i>,<i> Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City</i>, and <i>Burma Chronicles</i> are defining works of graphic non-fiction. Now he returns with Hostage: many years in the making, it marks a new direction for Delisle. <i>HOSTAGE</i> tells the true story of the kidnapping of a Doctors Without Borders employee, who was held in captivity for over 100 days before escaping. Drawn from interviews with Andre himself, it’s a powerful account of life under an imprisonment that has no foreseeable end.</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12:00 PM –<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Comics As Political Resistance</strong> – Comics are amazing tools for communicating. This is never more vital than when telling your stories involves speaking out against oppressive systems or political climates. Join Nate Powell (March), Ben Passmore (Your Black Friend), <a href="http://www.jalekseyeva.com/about/">Julia Alekseyeva</a> (<i>Soviet Daughter</i>), <a href="http://matt-lub.com/">Matt Lubchansky</a> (<i>The Nib</i>), and Krittika Ghosh, (Senior Coordinator, Violence against Women’s Program from the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants) as they talk about how creating and sharing comics can be an act of political resistance in these troubling times.</li>
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Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-35785121428171835822017-05-10T20:02:00.000-07:002017-05-10T20:02:45.183-07:00Un livre pour enfants: Mickey au Camp de Gurs as Picture Book - May 11,2017 in Toronto<a href="https://hcommons.org/members/pssmith/">Philip Smith</a> (associate professor at College of the Bahamas) will be presenting his paper "Un livre pour enfants: <a href="http://brianjohnspencer.tumblr.com/post/104923396523/horst-rosenthal-mickey-au-camp-de-gurs-1942"><i>Mickey au Camp de Gur</i>s</a> as Picture Book" during the European Comics session at the annual <a href="http://comics-scholars.com/wp/?page_id=20">Canadian Society for the Study of Comics / Societe Canadienne pour l'Etude de la Bande Dessinee (CSSC / SCEFBD) conference</a> in Toronto tomorrow afternoon.<br />
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<br />Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-77196636903998250742017-03-31T22:57:00.001-07:002017-03-31T22:57:09.894-07:00Jewish Side of MOCCA Fest 2017 - April 1st & 2nd<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">This weekend, the annual </span><a href="https://www.societyillustrators.org/mocca-arts-festival" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;">MOCCA (Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art) Festival</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> will take place at the </span><a href="http://www.nycgo.com/venues/metropolitan-west">Metropolitan West</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> in New York City, with programming taking place at <a href="http://www.ink48.com/">Ink48</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Among the creators & publishers of Jewish comics, Jewish graphic novels, and other Jewish graphica are :</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">* </span><a href="http://www.abrams.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Abrams ComicArts</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> is the publisher of the </span><a href="http://www.hereville.com/what-is-hereville/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;"><i>Hereville</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> books, the English edition of Pascal Croci's </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Auschwitz</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Yiddiskeit</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">, and the English edition of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Boxer: The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Harry Haft</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> by Reinhard Kleist</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">* <a href="http://jalekseyeva.com/">Julia Alekseyeva</a> is the author-illustrator of the graphic novel </span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #3e474c; line-height: 23px; text-align: justify;"><i>Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">* <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ccassano/?rb=1">C Cassano</a> is one of the artists who contributed to the <i><a href="http://indyworld.com/imprints/hang-dai-editions/seth-kushner/schmuck/">Schmuck</a></i> graphic biographical anthology.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">* <a href="http://www.cartoonstudies.org/index.php/about/" style="color: #336699;">The Center for Cartoon Studies</a> is the publisher of </span><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">Houdini : The Handcuff King.</i><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">* </span><a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Fantagraphic Books</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> is the publisher of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Jewish Images in the Comics, Palestine</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">, and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">Barracuda in the Attic</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">* <a href="http://drewfriedman.net/bio.html" style="color: #336699;">Drew Friedman</a> is the </span><span style="line-height: 16.9px;">cartoonist who illustrated "What If Chris Rock Performed At A Bar Mitzvah?" (M</span><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">AD Magazine</i><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"> #419) and "Marnin Rosenberg in 'Bad Luck with Women'" (</span><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">National Lampoon</i><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"> - June 1987).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">* </i><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><a href="https://kerenkatz.carbonmade.com/">Keren Katz </a>is an artist who adapted the story of Solomon ibn Gabirol's golem for </span></span><i style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://ahcomics.com/jewish-comix-anthology-volume-1/">Jewish Comix Anthology</a> </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">volume 1.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">* </span><a href="http://www.mrmedia.com/2007/06/peter-kuper-stop-forgetting-to-remember.html" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Peter Kuper</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"> is the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">author-illustrator of the short biographical story "Promised Land"(</span><a href="http://www.peterkuper.com/comix/C-n-B7.html" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;"><i>Bleeding Heart</i> #2</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">), as well as the book-length autobiographical </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;"><a href="http://suite101.com/article/peter-kupers-stop-forgetting-to-remember--graphic-novel-review-a267048" style="color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Stop Forgetting to Remember : The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz</a> </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;">and illustrator of some stories which appeared in the anthology </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"><i>Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;">* </span><a href="http://www.joshneufeld.com/" style="color: #336699; line-height: 16.8906px;">Josh Neufeld</a><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;"> is the author-illustrator of </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1603948.A_Few_Perfect_Hours" style="color: #336699; line-height: 16.8906px;">A Few Perfect Hours</a><span style="line-height: 16.8906px;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">* </i></span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #3e474c; line-height: 23px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.hadarreuven.com/">Hadar Reuven</a> is a visual artist and storyteller employing a variety of mediums; collage, painting, installation, video, sound, graphic novels and artist books.</span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #3e474c; line-height: 23px; text-align: justify;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16.9px;"><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">* <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/07407922117651267412" style="color: #336699; font-style: normal;">Ellis Rosen</a><span style="font-style: normal;"> is the illustrator of the story </span><a href="http://ellisrosen.blogspot.ca/2010/02/aaron-lansky-comic.html" style="color: #336699; font-style: normal;">"Aaron Lansky and the Recovery of Yiddish"</a><span style="font-style: normal;">, published in </span><i style="color: #336699; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11974274-yiddishkeit" style="color: #336699; font-style: normal;">Yiddishkeit</a>, </i><span style="font-style: normal;">a 1 page of </span><a href="http://ellisrosen.blogspot.ca/2008/12/fire.html" style="color: #336699; font-style: normal;">an adaptation of "Fire"</a><span style="font-style: normal;"> written by </span><a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1978/singer-bio.html" style="color: #336699; font-style: normal;">Isaac Bashevis Singer</a>, </i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">as well as the adaptation of the Moshe Yess song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrZJcqDiyjk">"My Zayde"</a> in <i><a href="http://ahcomics.com/jewish-comix-anthology-volume-1/">Jewish Comix Anthology</a> </i>volume 1.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.rsikoryak.com/" style="color: #336699; line-height: 16.9px;">Robert Sikoryak</a><span style="line-height: 16.9px;"> is a cartoonist who has adapted classic stories into comic-style retellings, including a Dagwood-style "Adam and Eve", which was reprinted in </span><i style="line-height: 16.9px;">Masterpiece Comics.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">SATURDAY, APRIL 1 PROGRAMMING</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">12:30PM / Helvetica Room</strong><br style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;" /><strong style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Drew Friedman: Heroes of the Comics</strong><br style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">In </span><em style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Heroes of the Comics</em><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> and his new follow-up volume </span><em style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">More Heroes of the Comics</em><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">, illustrator and cartoonist </span><strong style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://drewfriedman.net/bio.html">Drew Friedman</a></strong><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> has produced a series of affectionate, beautifully rendered portraits of important figures from the history of American comic books, accompanied by short informative biographies. Friedman will discuss selected figures from his two books with Fantagraphics publisher </span><strong style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Gary Groth, </strong><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">special guest</span><strong style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> <a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jaffee_al.htm">Al Jaffee</a>, </strong><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">who is featured in the first volume</span><strong style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">, </strong><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">and </span><strong style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/news/libraries/2017/2017-03-20_Staff_Profile_Karen_Green.html">Karen Green</a></strong><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">, Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library, who provides the second volume’s introduction. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">2:00PM / Garamond Room</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: normal;" /><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Rutu Modan and David Polonsky in Conversation</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">Israeli artists </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><a href="http://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/modan_rutu.htm">Rutu Modan</a></strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"> and </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><a href="http://www.illustrative.de/artists/david-polonsky/">David Polonsky</a></strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"> are both known for the excellence of their artwork and for their provocative approach to blending historical and current events into their imaginative works. Modan is best known in North America for her graphic novels </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Exit Wounds</em><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"> and </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: normal;">The Property</em><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"> and for her short story collection </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Jamilti</em><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">. Polonsky is best known in North America as the art director for the animated film </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Waltz With Bashir</em><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">, directed by Ari Folman. He is also the illustrator of the graphic novel based upon the film. Modan and Polonsky will discuss their work with comics scholar and writer </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><a href="https://webapp.mmm.edu/live/profiles/342-tahneer-oksman">Tahneer Oksman</a></strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"> (</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: normal;">How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?</em><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">). </span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">3:30PM / Garamond Room</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: normal;" /><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Anthologies as Art: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kramers Ergot</em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lagon</em></strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">The great anthologies of comics history — </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Zap</em><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">, </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Weirdo</em><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">, </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: normal;">RAW</em><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">, and others — have both made an assertion of comics’ aesthetic ambition at a certain time and place while functioning as a personal expression by each series’ editors. </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><a href="http://sammyharkham.com/">Sammy Harkham</a></strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"> is the editor of </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Kramers Ergot</em><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">, the anthology which, since 2003, has generated excitement with each volume as a strong statement about contemporary art comics in North America. </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Alexis Beauclair</strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"> is the co-editor of </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Lagon</em><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">, which debuted in 2014 as a risographed encapsulation of French avant-garde comics, and has metamorphosed with each volume leading to the latest, </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Gouffre</em><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">. They will discuss their work as artists and editors with </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Bill Kartalopoulos</strong><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">. </span></strong></span><br />
<br />Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-80503829567833360072016-05-10T23:44:00.000-07:002016-05-11T20:56:14.427-07:00The Jewish Side of TCAF 2016 - this week<span style="font-size: x-small;">Starting on Thursday, May 12th, readers, writers, artists, publishers and fans of comix will converge at the <a href="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/hou_az_trl.jsp">Toronto Reference Library</a> to take part in the the FREE <a href="http://torontocomics.com/about-tcaf/">Toronto Comic Arts Festival</a> (aka TCAF).This year marks the 13th anniversary since the first TCAF was held (at a much smaller venue) in 2003.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Among the talented people who will be at TCAF this year are a small number of comix professionals who have done comic art using Jewish characters or themes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://ahcomics.com/about-ah/">AH Comics Inc.</a> (table 201) is the publisher of <i><a href="http://www.jewishcomicsanthology.com/">Jewish Comix Anthology, volume 1</a></i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/brown.htm">Chester Brown</a> (tables 143-145) is the author and illustrator of <i>Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus : Prostitution and Religious Obedience in the Bible</i> which includes adaptations of the stories of Cain and Abel, Job, Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Basthsheba.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/">Drawn and Quarterly</a> (tables 143-145) is the publisher of <i>The Property</i>, <i>Exit Wounds</i>, <i>Jamalti & Other Stories</i>, <i>The Golem’s Mighty Swing</i>, <i>Jerusalem : Chronicles from the Holy City</i> and <i>Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus</i>. <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">D+Q also published the story "The Peasant and the Snake" in one of its anthologies, which has been reprinted in </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: merriweather, georgia, serif; line-height: 17.3333px;"><a href="http://www.jewishcomicsanthology.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #00635d;">Jewish Comix Anthology</a>.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/">Fantagraphics Books</a> (tables 129-130) is the publisher of <i>Jewish Images in the Comics, Palestine</i>, and <i>Barracuda in the Attic</i>.</span><br />
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<a href="http://pajamadiaries.com/bio/">Terri Libenson</a> is the cartoonist who writes and draws the syndicated comic strip <a href="http://pajamadiaries.com/">“The Pyjama Diaries”</a>which has spawned 3 book compilations - <i>Deja To-Do</i>, <i>Having It All - And No Time To Do It</i>, and <i>Bat-Zilla</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Jim Ottaviani (tables 122-123) is the author of <a href="http://www.gt-labs.com/wiremothers.html" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.9px;"><i>Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.9px;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.9px;"><a href="http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/03/17/fallout/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.9px;">Fallout : J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb</a>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.nbmpub.com/">NBM Graphic Novels</a> (tables 132-133) <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">is the publisher of the </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: merriweather, georgia, serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">Jew in Communist Prague </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">books, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: merriweather, georgia, serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">Brownsville</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: merriweather, georgia, serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">The Big Khan</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">, and the </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: merriweather, georgia, serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">Isaac the Pirate </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">books.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/rall_ted.htm">Ted Rall</a> (table 142) is the author and illustrator of the Bernie Sanders graphic biography <i>Bernie.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Winston Rowntree (table 125) is the author of an untitled story about 2 Jewish teenagers which appeared in the anthology <i>SPX 2004</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.rsikoryak.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.9px;">Robert Sikoryak</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.9px;"> is a cartoonist who has adapted classic stories into comic-style retellings, including a Dagwood-style "Adam and Eve", which was reprinted in </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.9px;">Masterpiece Comics.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Andy Stanleigh, who illustrated the story "Pillow of Feathers", is the owner of AH Comics (which published the 1st volume of <i><a href="http://www.jewishcomicsanthology.com/">Jewish Comix Anthology</a></i>). <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; line-height: 17.3333px;">He may be found at the AH Comics Inc. table (#201) during TCAF.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://imagecomics.com/creators/view/brian-k-vaughan">Brian K. Vaughan</a> is the author of the series <i>Y : The Last Man</i> and <i>The Escapists.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.societyillustrators.org/www.liorzaltzman.com">Li-Or Zaltzman</a> (table 234) is a writer and artist for <i><a href="http://forward.com/">The Forward</a></i>, who is c<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 16.9px;">urrently working on a 100+ page coming of age story that takes place in Tel Aviv</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 16.25px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Below are CSSC (Canadian Society for the Study of Comics) sessions which might be of interest to those who study Jews and Comics. All sessions take place at <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucida" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Marriott Bloor Yorkville Hotel, </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucida" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">90 Bloor St. East, Toronto, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucida" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">1st Floor.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">It appears we are living in an age of imagination; current enthusiasm for speculative fiction cannot help but pique scholarly curiosity. How – and to what extent – are we influenced by genre culture? Inversely, in what way might we qualify such phenomena as expressions of individual and collective agency? This presentation aims to account for a specific aspect of popular narratives (i.e., its relation to religion) from three interpretive perspectives inspired by McLuhan’s Laws of Media. Consequently, three dynamics of mutual influence are described: criticism, retrieval, and deconstruction. Popular narratives and religion criticize one another through selective representation; they retrieve each other through creative borrowing; and they deconstruct one another by undermining conventional expectations. The object of this presentation is not to argue for the superiority of any one method of interpretation, but rather to explore some of the meanings made available by a pluralist hermeneutic. Due to time constraints, this presentation focuses on superhero comics and their derivatives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">A graduate student of Université de Sherbrooke’s Centre d’étude du religieux contemporain, Etienne Domingue just submitted his master’s thesis for evaluation. His interests lie chiefly in the study of religion and magic in popular narratives. He is equally (un)comfortable presenting in English or French.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Keith Friedlander – <u style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anthologies and Creative Communities: Mapping the Social Function of Editors</u></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Anthologies occupy an important position in the comic world and serve a number of different purposes. Anthologies can often serve as a starting point for young artists and writers, providing them with a publishing outlet for their work and helping them grow a professional network. Some anthology projects serve as a showcase for existing creative communities, while others help communities take shape by bringing together isolated creative talent under a single title. In this regard, the work </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">p</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">erformed by the editors of these series in gathering talent, setting guidelines, and managing the project to publication is as crucial to the cultural impact of these anthologies as the artists’ words and images. In order to better understand the influence that anthologies can have on the formation of creative communities, it is necessary to study the social function that editors serve as an organizing force behind creative talent. I propose to write a paper that will evaluate the role anthologies play in creating and sustaining creative communities within the comic world. In doing so, I will draw upon primary research in the form of interviews and surveys with the editors and creative talents who have worked on these anthologies. I will examine a cross section of anthologies including Moonshot: The Indigenous Comic Collection, Jewish Comix Anthology, Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi/Fantasy Comics Anthology, and Toronto Comics, amongst others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Keith Friedlander teaches composition and literature at Humber College, Seneca College, and Trent University. He recently completed a doctoral dissertation on British Romanticism and is awaiting his defense. His research examines how matters of publishing mode and market position affect concepts of authorship and subjecthood.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tamara El-Hoss – <u style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Drawing Exile</u></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Baddawi is a recently published graphic novel written and illustrated by Leila Abdelrazaq, a Chicago-based Palestinian artist and organizer. Although, on the surface, the book is the coming-of-age story of a young Palestinian refugee boy, this graphic novel follows (and draws) the path of thousands of Palestinian refugees during the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe). Most of these refugees fled at night, by foot, and crossed Palestine’s Northern border into neighbouring Lebanon where they lived in make-shift refugee camps. Baddawi, which means “nomad” in Arabic, is one such camp, and is located in Northern Lebanon. Palestinians lived there in exile for decades, separate and separated from the Lebanese population, hoping to return “home” one day. “Palestinians”, notes Abdelrazaq, “make up the largest refugee population in the world” (notwithstanding the recent Syrian refugee crisis). The author/artist’s black and white illustrations draw on Palestinian “visuals” (landscapes, embroideries) and are heavily influenced by Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. The purpose of this paper will be to examine the manner in which Leila Abdelrazaq depicts and traces this exile, an exile mediated through an activist’s lens and an artistic license.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Tamara El-Hoss is an Assistant Professor at Brock University. Her research interests include graphic novels & bande dessinée, with a special interest in (im)migrant identity, marginality, testimonials, colonial history and politics, gender roles, trauma, diaspora, and queer identity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Please note that Friedlander's paper and El Hoss's paper are being delivered in 2 different sessions which take place at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">TCAF panels which may be of interest to those who study Jews and Comics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Sat., May 14th, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Toronto Reference Library, <strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Learning Centre 1, 1st Floor</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Historical Comics</strong><br />Panelists Chester Brown (<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Louis Riel</em>), Tony Cliff (<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Delilah Dirk</em>), Ben Towle (<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oyster War</em>), and Sarah Winifred Searle (<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Colonial Comics</em>) compare and contrast their methods for retelling events in history. Learn about how they narrow their focus to make old stories come alive again, through a faithful and sometimes fantastic narrative lenses. Moderated by David Humphreys.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Note : <i>Colonial Comics</i> includes the story " Lost Tribe" by <a href="https://about.me/adavidlewis">A. David Lewis</a> and <a href="http://jtwaldman.com/about/">JT Waldman</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Sat., May 14th, 1:30 - 2:30 PM, <strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Marriott Bloor-Yorkville Hotel, 90 Bloor St. East, Toronto</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Newspaper Comics in a Digital World</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucida" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">How are newspaper comic strips evolving in a digital world? Is print really dead? Join six internationally syndicated comic strip artists (Paul Gilligan, </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pooche Cafe,</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucida" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Sandra Bell-Lundy, </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Between Friends,</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucida" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Jonathan Mahood, </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bleeker The Rechargeable Dog,</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucida" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Terri Libenson, </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pajama Diaries,</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucida" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Dana Simpson, </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Phoebe and Her Unicorn</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucida" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">, and Rina Piccolo, </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tina’s Groove</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucida" , "verdana" , sans-serif;">) as they discuss new opportunities for their strips, the remodeling of syndication as a business, and the role of social media for newspaper comics.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Sat., May 14, 4:00 - 5:00 PM, <strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Marriott Bloor-Yorkville Hotel, 90 Bloor St. East, Toronto</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">On Sunday, one of the post-TCAF events is <a href="http://jewishcomics.blogspot.ca/2016/05/adapting-jewish-stories-into-comics.html">Adapting Jewish Stories into Comics</a> at the Miles Nadal JCC at 7:00 PM. For details, please click on the hyperlink.</span></div>
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<b><i>Adapting Jewish Stories into Comics : A Panel Discussion</i></b><br><p>
Presented by the Association of Jewish Libraries (Ontario Chapter) with Community Partners <a href="http://mnjcc.org/">Miles Nadal JCC</a> and <a href="http://torontocomics.com/">TCAF (Toronto Comic Arts Festival)</a><p>
FREE Event<br>
Date : Sunday, May 15, 2016 <br>
Time : 7:00 - 9:00 PM<br>
Location : 750 Spadina Ave. (at Bloor), Room 318, Toronto Ontario M5S 2J2 <p>
In 2014, <a href="http://www.jewishcomixanthology.com"><i>Jewish Comix Anthology</i></a> collected 41 stories from 47 comics professionals. For the first time, 3 of the book's contributors will come together for a free panel discussion on adapting Jewish stories into comics. The participants are : <p>
* Steven M. Bergson is a Data Processing Specialist at <a href="http://www.jewishtoronto.com">UJA Federation of Greater Toronto</a> and is the editor of <a href="http://www.jewishcomixanthology.com"><i>Jewish Comix Anthology</i></a>, volume 1, published by <a href="http://www.ahcomics.com">AH Comics</a>. <p>
* <a href="http://www.liatshalomdesign.com/">Liat Shalom</a> is an Israeli-born freelance illustrator/animator and graphic designer who works out of Toronto. She is about to graduate from OCAD University with a BA in Illustration and Animation. Liat has a background in New Media studies at Ryerson University and Printmaking from Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec. Her work arrays from Animation and Filmmaking to Illustration, and Graphic Design. She creates gallery work alongside commercial work and always has something to say. Like a perfectly simmered kneidelach, Liat’s work aims to satisfy a void she feels that there is in the modern Jewish Art Scene that connects illustration and humor together with politics and religion, and aims to bring it to the foreground of pop culture. <p>
* David G. Klein made a career in illustration and is now co-owner of <a href="http://www.pointmadeanimation.com/">Point Made Animation</a>. He illustrated such title characters as <i>Spiderman</i> and <i>Batman</i> for Marvel and DC comics, and is the author of the graphic novel <a href="http://www.nowwhatmedia.com/pages_folder/nowwhatbooks_pages/nowwhatbooks_thegolemsvoice.html"><i>The Golem’s Voice</i></a>. His illustrations appear regularly on the editorial pages of the world's leading newspapers, including <i>The New York Times</i> and <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, where he developed the ability to translate complex ideas into quickly understood visuals. Along with other <i>New York Times</i> illustrators, he created <a href="http://www.inxart.com/">INXART</a>, an international syndicated library of editorial art. <p>
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BD : I agree that book 3 was darker than the first two books (although you should have seen some of the scripts for book 2 that didn't end up being the final scripts - one of them in particular, about one of Mirka's older sisters getting married, was so intense and scary! I still hope to draw that one someday).</div>
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SMB : Many stories have been written with characters being granted wishes, but the short story <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12122/12122-h/12122-h.htm">"The Monkey's Paw"</a> (by <a href="http://www.britannica.com/biography/W-W-Jacobs">W.W. Jacobs)</a> stands out to me as the one which epitomized the concept of the wishes-with-a-dark-twist trope. Was that story a source of inspiration for <i>How Mirka Caught a Fish</i>?</div>
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SMB : This is the 3rd Mirka book in which Mirka is an 11-year old (6 years after the publication of the first book). Are you going to start telling stories of Mirka as a teen or are you still working through the 11-year old stage?</div>
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BD : A lot of people - me included - have a childhood year which seems endless in hindsight. <i>How did all of that happen in one year?</i> For Mirka, that's her eleventh year, and that's the story this trilogy of books is about. It's during this year that Mirka first encounters real, unambiguous magic, and it's also during this year that Mirka fully accepts Fruma as her new mother.</div>
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<i><a href="http://www.hbook.com/2015/11/authors-illustrators/barry-deutsch-on-hereville/">The Horn Book</a></i> (with Shoshana Flax) {the full interview is in the print edition of the Nov./Dec. 2015 issue ; a single question-&-answer is reproduced online}</div>
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Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-38644846564810786682016-01-25T09:21:00.000-08:002016-01-25T09:21:55.062-08:002016 Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;">
<a href="http://jewishlibraries.org/content.php?page=Sydney_Taylor_Book_Award___About_the_Award">The Sydney Taylor Book Award</a> will be celebrating and showcasing its 2016 gold and silver medalists with a <strong>Blog Tour, February 8-12, 2016</strong>! Interviews with winning authors and illustrators will appear on a wide variety of Jewish and kidlit blogs. For those of you who have not yet experienced a Blog Tour, it’s basically a virtual book tour. Instead of going to a library or bookstore to see an author or illustrator speak, you go to a website on or after the advertised date to read an author’s or illustrator’s interview.</div>
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Below is the schedule for the 2016 Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour. Please follow the links to visit the hosting blogs on or after their tour dates, and be sure to leave them plenty of comments!</div>
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<strong>MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2016</strong></div>
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<em><strong>Ketzel the Cat</strong></em> by <a href="http://www.lesleanewman.com/biography.htm">Lesléa Newman</a>, illustrated by <a href="http://www.amybates.com/bio.html">Amy June Bates</a><br />Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Younger Readers Category<br />At <a href="http://annkoffsky.com/blog/" style="color: #2795b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Ann Koffsky's Blog</a></div>
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<em><strong>Serendipity's Footsteps</strong> </em>by <a href="http://www.suzannenelson.com/author-bio/">Suzanne Nelson</a><br />Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category<br />At <a href="http://slayground.livejournal.com/" style="color: #2795b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Bildungsroman</a></div>
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<em><strong>Adam & Thomas</strong></em> by <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/appelfeld.html">Aharon Appelfeld</a>, translated by <a href="http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/member65345.htm">Jeffrey M. Green</a>, illustrated by Philippe Dumas<br />Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Older Readers Category<br />At <a href="http://jewishbooksforkids.com/" style="color: #2795b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Jewish Books for Kids with Barbara Bietz</a></div>
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<em><a href="http://hereville.com/what-is-hereville/"><strong>Hereville</strong><b> </b></a><b>: How Mirka Caught a Fish</b> </em>by <a href="http://amptoons.com/">Barry Deutsch</a><br />Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Older Readers Category<br />At <a href="http://jewishcomics.blogspot.com/" style="color: #2795b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Jewish Comics</a></div>
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<em><strong>The Hired Girl</strong></em> by Laura Amy Schlitz<br />Sydney Taylor Book Award winner in the Teen Readers Category<br />At <a href="http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/_blog/The_ProsenPeople/" style="color: #2795b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">The Prosen People</a></div>
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<em><strong>Shanghai Sukkah</strong></em> by Heidi Smith Hyde, illustrated by <a href="http://www.theispot.com/artist/jjtsong">Jing Jing Tsong</a><br />Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category<br />At <a href="http://kristisbooknook.blogspot.com/" style="color: #2795b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Kristi's Book Nook</a></div>
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<strong>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2016</strong></div>
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<em><strong>Everybody Says Shalom</strong></em> by <a href="http://www.lesliekimmelman.net/about-the-author">Leslie Kimmelman</a>, illustrated by <a href="http://www.talithashipman.com/about/">Talitha Shipman</a><br />Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Younger Readers Category<br />At <a href="http://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/" style="color: #2795b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Book Q&A's with Deborah Kalb</a></div>
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<em><strong>Stones on a Grave</strong></em> by <a href="http://www.kathykacer.com/aboutme.html">Kathy Kacer</a><br />Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner in the Teen Readers Category<br />At <a href="http://randomlyreading.blogspot.com/" style="color: #2795b3; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Randomly Reading</a></div>
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<strong>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2016</strong></div>
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<strong>Blog Tour Wrap-Up</strong> with all authors and illustrators At <a href="http://thewholemegillah.wordpress.com/" style="color: #2795b3; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">The Whole Megillah</a></div>
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Steve Bergsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05696472248796256805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32686140.post-6490708185933288622015-06-14T21:28:00.000-07:002015-06-14T21:42:35.471-07:00The comics side of the AJL jubilee conference (2015)From June 21st - June 24th, the <a href="http://jewishlibraries.org/about.php">Association of Jewish Libraries</a> will be holding its 50th annual conference in Silver Spring, Maryland. One of the sessions on Tuesday June 22nd is titled "Graphic Representations of the Holocaust and Jewish Life", which will be moderated by popular culture expert <a href="https://lib.asu.edu/directory/rachel-leket-mor">Rachel Leket-Mor</a>. Steven M. Bergson (editor of<i> Jewish Comix Anthology</i>, volume 1) will share "Secret Origins of the <i><a href="http://ahcomics.com/jewish-comix-anthology-volume-1/">Jewish Comix Anthology</a></i>. <a href="http://www.christopherhuh.com/index2.html">Christopher Huh</a> (who is currently working on a new novel about <a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/stories/wallenberg.asp">Raoul Wallenberg</a>) will talk about his Holocaust graphic novel <i><a href="http://www.christopherhuh.com/index3.html">Keeping My Hope</a></i>. <a href="http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007037">Dr. Rafael Medoff</a>, a historian who has assisted with such works as <a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/08/09/arts/Babbitt_pages1-6.pdf">"The Last Outrage"</a> (<i>X-Men : Magneto : Testament</i> #5), <a href="http://dep.disney.go.com/theyspokeout/" style="font-style: italic;">They Spoke Out : American Voices Against the Holocaust</a>, and <a href="http://www.uis.edu/english/wp-content/uploads/sites/47/2013/03/TheSt.LouisRefugeeShipBlues_washingtonpost.com_.pdf">"The St. Louis Refugee Ship Blues"</a> (<i>Washington Post</i>, 2009), will discuss "Cartoonists Against the Holocaust: A New Way of Teaching about Genocide”.<br />
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The session is limited to conference attendees. The per diem Tuesday registration costs $184.59. To register, please go to <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/association-of-jewish-libraries-conference-yoveljubilee-celebrating-50-years-of-ajl-please-scroll-registration-14689824661">http://www.eventbrite.com/e/association-of-jewish-libraries-conference-yoveljubilee-celebrating-50-years-of-ajl-please-scroll-registration-14689824661</a>.<br />
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