The Comic Image of the Jew

The Comic Image of the Jew
Author: Sig Altman
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1971
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780838678695

The author's analysis confirms the existence of a Jewish Comic Image that does not appear to mirror directly a lingering Jewish estrangement from, or exclusion by, the larger society. Examines the Jewish Comedian and the Jewish past in association with humor.

Jews and American Comics

Jews and American Comics
Author: Paul Buhle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Yellow press headliners : Jewish comics in the dailies -- Comic book heroes -- The underground era -- Recovering Jewishness.

Toward a Hot Jew

Toward a Hot Jew
Author: Miriam Libicki
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2016-09-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1606999818

In her first collection of graphic essays, Miriam Libicki investigates what it means globally and culturally to be Jewish, dating from her time in the Israeli military to her tenure as an art professor. Toward a Hot Jew is a new high watermark in autobiographical comics and shows Miriam Libicki as a powerful witness to history in the tradition of Martjane Satrapi and Joe Sacco.

The Implacable Urge to Defame

The Implacable Urge to Defame
Author: Matthew Baigell
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2017-04-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0815653964

From the 1870s to the 1930s, American cartoonists devoted much of their ink to outlandish caricatures of immigrants and minority groups, making explicit the derogatory stereotypes that circulated at the time. Members of ethnic groups were depicted as fools, connivers, thieves, and individuals hardly fit for American citizenship, but Jews were especially singled out with visual and verbal abuse. In The Implacable Urge to Defame, Baigell examines more than sixty published cartoons from humor magazines such as Judge, Puck, and Life and considers the climate of opinion that allowed such cartoons to be published. In doing so, he traces their impact on the emergence of anti-Semitism in the American Scene movement in the 1920s and 1930s.

Superman Is Jewish?

Superman Is Jewish?
Author: Harry Brod
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1416595317

"Harry Brod situates superheroes within the course of Jewish-American history: they are aliens in a foreign land, like Superman; figures plagued by guilt for abandoning their families, like Spider-Man; and outsiders persecuted for being different, like the X-Men. Brod blends humor and sharp observation as he considers the overt and discreet Jewish characteristics of these well-known figures and explores how their creators integrated their Jewish identities and their creativity."--From publisher description.

The Ultimate Jewish Cartoon Book

The Ultimate Jewish Cartoon Book
Author: Neil Kerber
Publisher: Aurum
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2009
Genre: Humor
ISBN:

The unbreakable Jewish spirit and absolute necessity to keep its people in existence has resulted in the development of a world-renowned sense of humour...and some often eccentric habits, that have become a staple of everyday Jewish life. In this irresistible collection of highly original cartoons, Neil Kerber puts a whole new slant on things Jewish - from the evolution of man to the ultimate Jewish heaven, via eating, trying to get offspring married, and the indomitable Jewish mother. Sketches, wise cracks, sayings and situations are all sent up with great affection. Hilarious, surreal and inventive by turn, and always entertaining, this is indeed the ultimate book of Jewish cartoons - to give or to savour yourself ... and you don't have to be Jewish to enjoy it! Neil Kerber creates cartoons for a number of national publications including Private Eye, the Independent, The Jewish Chronicle and the Spectator. Previous books include The Great Baby Cartoon Book.

Kvetch As Kvetch Can

Kvetch As Kvetch Can
Author: Ken Krimstein
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2010
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0307588882

A collection of Jewish cartoons covering topics ranging from food and family to holidays and guilt.

Graphic Details

Graphic Details
Author: Sarah Lightman
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2014-08-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786465530

The comics within capture in intimate, often awkward, but always relatable detail the tribulations and triumphs of life. In particular, the lives of 18 Jewish women artists who bare all in their work, which appeared in the internationally acclaimed exhibition "Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women." The comics are enhanced by original essays and interviews with the artists that provide further insight into the creation of autobiographical comics that resonate beyond self, beyond gender, and beyond ethnicity.

Hollywood's Image of the Jew

Hollywood's Image of the Jew
Author: Lester D. Friedman
Publisher: Frederick Ungar
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1982
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Bibliography: p. 366-370. Includes index.

From Krakow to Krypton

From Krakow to Krypton
Author: Arie Kaplan
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0827610432

Jews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped create the underground comics (or "Comix") movement of the late '60s and early '70s. Many of the creators of the most famous comic books, such as Superman, Spiderman, X-Men, and Batman, as well as the founders of MAD Magazine, were Jewish. From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books tells their stories and demonstrates how they brought a uniquely Jewish perspective to their work and to the comics industry as a whole. Over-sized and in full color, From Krakow to Krypton is filled with sidebars, cartoon bubbles, comic book graphics, original design sketches, and photographs. It is a visually stunning and exhilarating history.