On February 15, 1993, just after Spiegelman joined The New Yorker,
his first cover for the magazine was published. To commemorate
Valentine’s Day, he depicted an Orthodox Jewish man and an
African-American woman kissing. It appeared “in the wake” of the Crown
Heights riots in Brooklyn, and the “scars” of the racial tensions
between Hasidic Jews and African-Americans “were still fresh in New
York,” he recalled. “My intention was to represent the two communities
as kissing and making up.” It proved to be a bit early for that; the
cover sparked protests from both the black and Hasidic communities. - Art Talk - UPenn Gazette, 2006
Check out "Confessional Comics by Jewish Women," a traveling exhibit of 18 Graphic Artists. Here is a link to biographical and bibliographical information on each women artist.
Ilana Zeffren
This web guide provides additional information about both the texts and the authors you are studying - as well as links to websites of Jewish graphic artists and their works that you are not studying. Enjoy - Deborah Katz, Jewish Studies Librarian
