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There’s an article in the May 9th issue of j - the Jewish news weekly of Northern California - “Comic expressions”, reproduced online at http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/35208/format/html/displaystory.html, which gives the background of Miriam Libicki (author-illustrator of the comic book series jobnik!) and Ariel Schrag (editor of the anthology Stuck in the Middle, which contains one of her stories, “Shit”). Schrag and Libicki will be speaking tomorrow night at Intersection for the Arts as part of the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s “Serial Boxes” series, an exploration of the graphic novel.
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Grammy Winner James Ehnes in Candid Interview on Art & Fine Living with Jona by jona rapoport on March 11th, 2008 Canadian violinist James Ehnes was the honoured guest on radio show Art & Fine Living with Jona, produced and hosted by Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom, a mere 24 hours after receiving the coveted Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra.
New Radio Show Draws Accolades by jona rapoport on February 23rd, 2008 Art & Fine Living with Jona is the brilliant initiative of producer/host Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom in Montreal.
The sketch - and commentary in Russian - may be viewed at the Éditions Tchaï blog. To see a larger image, click on the first graphic (top-left).
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Grammy Winner James Ehnes in Candid Interview on Art & Fine Living with Jona by jona rapoport on March 11th, 2008 Canadian violinist James Ehnes was the honoured guest on radio show Art & Fine Living with Jona, produced and hosted by Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom, a mere 24 hours after receiving the coveted Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra.
New Radio Show Draws Accolades by jona rapoport on February 23rd, 2008 Art & Fine Living with Jona is the brilliant initiative of producer/host Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom in Montreal.
The tentative schedule for the annual Association of Jewish Libraries conference in Cleveland, Ohio may be found at the AJL website (Acrobat format). This year’s convention will be held from June 22nd to the 25th.
Per diem registration for Monday or Tuesday (which includes all of the day’s sessions, as well as that day’s breakfast & lunch) is $200 USD. Registration for the post-conference program on Wednesday (which includes breakfast, the luncheon & the dessert reception) is $75 USD. The registration form may also be found on the AJL website (Acrobat format).
4 sessions at the conference should be of interest to readers of this blog.
Session 2C - Mon., June 23rd, 10:30-11:45 AM, Salon V Speak Memory “Mendel’s Daughter : The Art of Remembering”, Martin Lemelman, author-illustrator of Mendel’s Daughter : A Memoir
Session 3D - Mon., June 23rd, 2:00-3:15 PM, Salon VI Yikes! Pow! Zap! Oy! Israel Graphically “From Tintin to Migdal David : Representations of Israel and Israelis in Comic Books, Comic Strips, and Graphic Novels”, Steven M. Bergson, blogmaster of The Jewish Comics Blog “Tales of a Tank Secretary : IDF Comix with a Twist”, Miriam Libicki, author-illustrator of jobnik! : an american girl’s adventures in the israeli army
Post-Conference Program, Session 2A, 2:00-3:15 PM, Salon V & Salon VI Illustrated Non-Fiction with Christos Nicola & Peter Lane (the author & illustrator of The Secret of Priest’s Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story), Deborah Heiligman (author of 10 books in the Holidays Around the World series), and Bill Rubin (Executive Editor of Nachshon Press, publisher of the graphic history book Homeland : The Illustrated History of the State of Israel
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New Radio Show Draws Accolades by jona rapoport on February 23rd, 2008 Art & Fine Living with Jona is the brilliant initiative of producer/host Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom in Montreal.
Grammy Winner James Ehnes in Candid Interview on Art & Fine Living with Jona by jona rapoport on March 11th, 2008 Canadian violinist James Ehnes was the honoured guest on radio show Art & Fine Living with Jona, produced and hosted by Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom, a mere 24 hours after receiving the coveted Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra.
Tickets are $10 CDN and may be purchased via the Luminato website.
This program is presented with support from The British Council.
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New Radio Show Draws Accolades by jona rapoport on February 23rd, 2008 Art & Fine Living with Jona is the brilliant initiative of producer/host Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom in Montreal.
Grammy Winner James Ehnes in Candid Interview on Art & Fine Living with Jona by jona rapoport on March 11th, 2008 Canadian violinist James Ehnes was the honoured guest on radio show Art & Fine Living with Jona, produced and hosted by Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom, a mere 24 hours after receiving the coveted Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra.
On Saturday, May 10th at 11:30 PM, the Bloor Cinema will be showing Wristcutters, the adaptation of the Etgar Keret graphic novel Pizzeria Kamikaze.
If you’re unfamiliar with the work of Will Eisner or the graphic novel Pizzeria Kamikaze and want to familiarize yourself with them before (or after) seeing the films, I would recommend that you drop by my favorite comics shop, The Beguiling. It’s a short walking distance from the Bloor Cinema, so you can buy some graphic novels to have something cool to read while waiting in line. In addition to books by Will Eisner, The Beguiling should have books about Will Eisner, e.g. Will Eisner : A Spirited Life.
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New Radio Show Draws Accolades by jona rapoport on February 23rd, 2008 Art & Fine Living with Jona is the brilliant initiative of producer/host Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom in Montreal.
Grammy Winner James Ehnes in Candid Interview on Art & Fine Living with Jona by jona rapoport on March 11th, 2008 Canadian violinist James Ehnes was the honoured guest on radio show Art & Fine Living with Jona, produced and hosted by Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom, a mere 24 hours after receiving the coveted Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra.
Jerusalem lies in ruins, and the war humanity must fight in the wake of its destruction is like nothing anyone on Earth could have anticipated. When an alien race begins plucking swarms of people from everyday walks of life, they are told to brace themselves to fight in a battle to decide the fate of Earth.
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New Radio Show Draws Accolades by jona rapoport on February 23rd, 2008 Art & Fine Living with Jona is the brilliant initiative of producer/host Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom in Montreal.
Grammy Winner James Ehnes in Candid Interview on Art & Fine Living with Jona by jona rapoport on March 11th, 2008 Canadian violinist James Ehnes was the honoured guest on radio show Art & Fine Living with Jona, produced and hosted by Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom, a mere 24 hours after receiving the coveted Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra.
It looks like there are only 2 rooms being used simultaneously, which means an attendee will only miss half of the total sessions. The percentage is a lot lower at other conferences where there are several concurrent sessions.
Of possible interest to readers of this blog are 2 presentations that are part of Panel 3B (Endings 2) on Sunday, May 11th in Room UC 179 (2 – 3:15 PM)
Anthony Enns - “Media, Memory, and the Metropolis in Jason Lutes’ Berlin: City of Stones”
Amir Hussain - “Representing Muslim Lives: Pedagogy and the Comics Journalism of Joe Sacco”
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New Radio Show Draws Accolades by jona rapoport on February 23rd, 2008 Art & Fine Living with Jona is the brilliant initiative of producer/host Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom in Montreal.
Grammy Winner James Ehnes in Candid Interview on Art & Fine Living with Jona by jona rapoport on March 11th, 2008 Canadian violinist James Ehnes was the honoured guest on radio show Art & Fine Living with Jona, produced and hosted by Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom, a mere 24 hours after receiving the coveted Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra.
I have to admit that I haven’t had the time yet to sit and read through the first Hereville story, “How Mirka Got Her Sword”. However, I have looked at several pages and have been impressed with what I’ve seen : a strong-willed Orthodox Jewish girl as the main character, a Sabbath evening scene, a Havdallah scene (Havdallah is the ritual done at the end of the Jewish Sabbath), the intricate knitting scenes using double-page spreads. If nothing else, there is a sense of originality in its concept - when’s the last time anyone’s seen a comic story involving a troll-hunting Jewish girl? I think Hereville has the first.
When I posted to my Jewish comics forum (at Yahoo) about the webcomic (message #698), it was hosted at Girlamatic. Now, cartoonist Barry Deutch has gotten Hereville its own domain name to display his sample pages at : www.hereville.com.
For those who prefer reading their comics on dead trees, there’s great news. Hereveille : How Mirka Got Her Sword will be published as a trade paperback next month!
Although I haven’t read much of the story, at least 6 others have — and those 6 have written reviews or made comments.
What do you get when you cross “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and Isaac Bashevis Singer?
You get cartoonist Barry Deutsch’s latest project, an online comic book called Hereville, about “the magical adventures of a 12-year-old Hasidic girl fighting monsters.”
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Deutsch has taken numerous college-level art classes, including a few at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he studied with Will Eisner, “one of the greatest cartoonists of all time.”
The Webcomics Examiner Advisory Board (upon Hereville being chosen as one of the Best Webcomics of 2004)
The story is leisurely and steeped in cultural tradition; even troll killing must wait until after Shabbot rituals. Smart, yet heartwarming, quiet, yet with a genuine sense of adventure.
exceptionally beautiful visuals. The drawings are detailed and seem like a lot of work has gone into getting things right. It’s the confident work of a professional artist. The division of panels is deliciously non-traditional.
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The dialogue caught my interest right away. We’re thrown right in the middle of a philosophical debate in the first few panels. Do we have free will or does God just make our lives difficult? In another early strip, we’re invited to ponder on the ethics of eating animals vs. slaying dragons.
an interesting comic with a unique cultural identity. It’s worth a look for fans of fantasy or for anyone who feels there is no new territory to explore in the genre.
It’s glorious, deep, clever, and intelligent; finally, a take on the hero’s tale which doesn’t look like it was cribbed straight outta G.I. Joseph Campbell. Mirka won me over from the start.
If you’ll be in the Portland area on April 26th or 27th, you can drop by the Stumptown Comics Fest, where Barry Deutsch himself will be on hand at an exhibitor booth to talk to you and sign your copies of Hereville. Don’t have a copy? No problem! You can buy them at his booth.
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Grammy Winner James Ehnes in Candid Interview on Art & Fine Living with Jona by jona rapoport on March 11th, 2008 Canadian violinist James Ehnes was the honoured guest on radio show Art & Fine Living with Jona, produced and hosted by Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom, a mere 24 hours after receiving the coveted Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra.
New Radio Show Draws Accolades by jona rapoport on February 23rd, 2008 Art & Fine Living with Jona is the brilliant initiative of producer/host Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom in Montreal.
… and 1 reason not to. It’s amazing (& astonishing & shocking — and all those other cool adjectives they threw onto the covers on Silver Age comics to try to get our attention) to me that there are more “Jewish” reasons to attend NYCC this year than there were last year.
(1) Session discussing Jews and superheroes in general and in particular the book Disguised as Clark Kent : Jews, Comics and the Creation of the Superhero, written by
(2) Danny Fingeroth (who will be in attendance), moderated by
(4) A confidential source has it on good authority to believe that legendary Batman series artist Jerry Robinson (who also did illustrations for Bible Tales for Young Folk) will be in attedance.
(5) Session discussing the book Our Gods Wear Spandex : The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes - a book whose sections include People of the Book (chapter 4) ; Harry Houdini (chapter ; Founding Fathers: Harry Donenfeld and Martin Goodman (chapter 12) ; Chapter 16. The Golems ; Jack Kirby (chapter 20) ; Neil Gaiman (chapter 20)
(6) The above session will feature the book’s author, Christopher Knowles ; the aforementioned Danny Fingeroth ;
and (8) A. David Lewis (co-organizer of the recent “Graven Images” conference and author of The Lone and Level Sands, a graphic novel adaptation of the story of Exodus).
(9) tribute to Joe Kubert, who will be in attence at NYCC
(11) tribute to Steve Gerber (author of “A Monster Reborn” in Monsters Unleashed #4)
(12) A tribute to Jack “King” Kirby and discussion of the book Kirby : King of Comics with
(13) the book’s author Mark Evanier (who also wrote a Crossfire story for a Free Comic Book Day comic involving a Holocaust survivor who tries to kill a suspected Nazi war criminal)
(15) Dick Ayers (illustrator of “Lonely Are the Brave” in Combat Kelly and the Deadly Dozen #2, in which the titular heroes liberate a concentration camp)
(16) Kyle Baker author-illustrator of the King David graphic novel from Vertigo, as well as a funny 1-page cartoon in his Kyle Baker : Cartoonist TPB in which a Jewish Cinderella has a mishap under the chuppah)
(20) Garth Ennis (author of the limited series Unknown Soldier, in which the title character, in a flashback to WWII, is shown massacring Nazi guards at Dachau)
(21) Gary Friedrich (author of “Lonely Are the Brave” in Combat Kelly and the Deadly Dozen #2, in which the titular heroes liberate a concentration camp)
(22) Neil Gaiman (Jewish author who contributed to the anthology Outrageous Tales of the Old Testament and who both retold a midrash on Adam’s 2nd wife and had a Jewish musician meet Death in the pages of his Sandman series)
(23) Keith Giffen (author of the Ragman miniseries that reintroduced the title character as a Jewish superhero and also creator of the characters Dreidel and Rabbi Zone, who both appeared in the pages of the last issue of the series The Heckler)
(24) Dan Goldman (author-illustrator of a short piece titled “Schmear”, which he describes as “Jewish porn”, since it takes place in the backroom of a Brooklyn bagel shop. The story appeared in Smut Peddler #2). In all fairness, Dan’s done other - & better-known - stories (e.g. Shooting War) but “Schmear” is the only “Jewish” work of his that I’ve seen.
(25) Justin Gray (co-creator of The Monolith series)
(26) Dean Haspiel (illustrator of many Harvey Pekar stories, including his graphic novels The Quitter and Ego & Hubris : The Michael Malice Story)
(28) Alisa Kwitney (writer on the Vertigo series Token. Set in Miami Beach in the 1980s, Token tells the story of Shira, a sheltered young Jewish girl, who finds herself rebelling against her family and falling for Rafael, a boy who knows how to make acting bad feel way too good.
(29) Stan “The Man” Lee (Jewish co-creator of classic Marvel characters & series, such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four)
(30) Rob Liefeld (illustrator of stories in the Youngblood series, which included the Israeli superheroine Masada)
(31) Steve Niles (author of the golem story Criminal Macabre: Feat of Clay)
(33) Jimmy Palmiotti (co-creator of the short-lived golem series The Monolith from DC Comics)
(34) M. K. Perker (illustrator of the Vertigo graphic novel Cairo. Set in bustling modern-day Cairo, this magical-realism thriller interweaves the lives of a drug runner, a down-on-his-luck journalist, an American expatriate, a young activist, an Israeli soldier, and a genie as they navigate the city’s streets and spiritual underworld to find a stolen hooka sought by a wrathful gangster-magician.)
(35) Josef Rubinstein (an illustrator of the 2nd Mendy & the Golem series and contributor to both Journeys : The Collected Edition and Balm in Gilead)
(36) Steve Rude (author of many Nexus stories ; one of the main characters in Nexus is Judah Maccabee aka “The Hammer”)
(37) Gail Simone (who wrote the story “Li’l Krusty in Give a Hoot, Stay in School” in Simpsons #62)
(38) Louise Simonson (co-author of issues of a Superman storyline in which Superman went to the Warsaw Ghetto)
(40) G. Willow Wilson (author of the Vertigo graphic novel Cairo.)
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Grammy Winner James Ehnes in Candid Interview on Art & Fine Living with Jona by jona rapoport on March 11th, 2008 Canadian violinist James Ehnes was the honoured guest on radio show Art & Fine Living with Jona, produced and hosted by Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom, a mere 24 hours after receiving the coveted Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra.
New Radio Show Draws Accolades by jona rapoport on February 23rd, 2008 Art & Fine Living with Jona is the brilliant initiative of producer/host Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom in Montreal.
Mysteries of the Alef-Beit - Kabbalistic Secrets of the Hebrew Alpha Bet
Lavishly presented in comic style with detailed insights and depths. Perfect for the beginner or the practiced Mage.
Complete with: How to properly Scribe the letters Gematrias Kabbalistic insights Many hidden secrets of the letters that formed the basis of all languages
Mysteries of the Alef-Bet
Available now in English and Hebrew Editions from Mahrwood Press.
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Grammy Winner James Ehnes in Candid Interview on Art & Fine Living with Jona by jona rapoport on March 11th, 2008 Canadian violinist James Ehnes was the honoured guest on radio show Art & Fine Living with Jona, produced and hosted by Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom, a mere 24 hours after receiving the coveted Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra.
New Radio Show Draws Accolades by jona rapoport on February 23rd, 2008 Art & Fine Living with Jona is the brilliant initiative of producer/host Jona Rapoport on Radio Shalom in Montreal.
; Founding Fathers: Harry Donenfeld and Martin Goodman (chapter 12) ; Chapter 16. The Golems ; Jack Kirby (chapter 20) ; Neil Gaiman (chapter 20)