Research Guides: The Graphic Novel and the Jewish Experience: Additional Jewish Graphic Artists

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 Rosenzweig
For 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 Gantz
A history in graphic form - of course.
Harvey Pekar - Fresh Air interview. Nov. 10 2005
The 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.
Aline Kaminsky - Crumb interview on memoir Need More Love
Bernice Eisenstein - I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors
Sarah Glidden - How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
Vanessa Davis - Comics
As a regular contributor to Tablet, Davis mixes present-day accounts of herself, friends and family with memories of growing up suburban and Jewish.
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An Ignatz Award nominee for Spaniel Rage, her first book, the Santa Rosa-based artist is completing a sequel to be published by Drawn & Quarterly.
Rutu Modan - Israeli
A 2008 Eisner Award winner for comic arts. She is part of the Israeli comics collective Actus Tragicus.
David Polonksy - Israeli
A 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

How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less

Chapter 2 The Golan Heights