The Comic Torah
"Judaism is the world's most obsessive-complusive book club.
Every week, religous Jews read a portion or "parsha" of the Hebrew
Bible, so that at the end of a year we've read the whole thing. Then we
start all over again. Every week we create a cartoon based on that
week's Torah portion. " - - Aaron Freeman & Sharon Rosenzweig
Rutu Modan
This is the story of Rutu's grandmother "The Most Popular Girl in Warsaw." - Modan's blog in the NYTimes July 3, 2007
Rutu Modan 'Exit Wounds' Interview
Interview with the Isreali comic artist Rutu Modan about her graphic novel Exit Wounds and what it means to be an Israeli graphic artist.
Links to graphic works of additional graphic artists
Miriam Katin Harvey Pekar The Quitter
- The Comic Torah - Aaron Freeman and Sharon RosenzweigFor three years, Sharon Rosenzweig and Aaron Freeman have been collaborating on The Comic Torah: A graphic re-imagining of The Very Good Book. They've refined their story and characters as they posted them online each week.
- The Jew and The Graphic Novel - David GantzA history in graphic form - of course.
- Harvey Pekar - Fresh Air interview. Nov. 10 2005The Quitter, the new graphic novel from Harvey Pekar, is an autobiographical account of his upbringing as the son of Jewish immigrants. The book, set in the Cleveland of the 1950s and '60s, offers a view of how Pekar came to be a frustrated -- and charming -- storyteller.
- Vanessa Davis - ComicsAs a regular contributor to Tablet, Davis mixes present-day accounts of herself, friends and family with memories of growing up suburban and Jewish.
- Rutu Modan - IsraeliA 2008 Eisner Award winner for comic arts. She is part of the Israeli comics collective Actus Tragicus.
- David Polonksy - IsraeliA graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, in 1998. David's illustrations have appeared in most of Israel's leading newspapers and magazines.
Vanessa Davis
"Have Jews always been characterized as being "neurotic'? It seems like a relatively recent designation." - Jitters
