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A cover of Mad Magazine, which will no longer publish new content, from 1968 (Photo/JTA-Elizabeth W. Kearley-Getty Images)
Posted inComedy

How Mad magazine taught me to think like a Jewish intellectual

by Andrew Silow-Carroll July 9, 2019
Eli Valley, a Jewish cartoonist whose work has long taken aim at Jewish leaders and institutions, has broadened his scope during the Trump era. (Screenshot/JTA-Vimeo)
Posted inCulture

Why Jewish cartoonist Eli Valley is sparking controversy at Stanford

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales May 10, 2019May 10, 2019
A page from the new graphic novel "The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt"
Posted inOff the Shelf

Tale of Kafka’s writings and a graphic novel on Arendt’s life show intellectual world destroyed by Nazis

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 8, 2019January 9, 2019
The cover of the first issue of Captain America, published in 1941, famously features Captain America giving Hitler what for.
Posted inCulture

When comic books were the best way for teens to learn about the Holocaust

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten May 10, 2018May 10, 2018
Shaina Hammerman teaches her course on Jewish humor at USF (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inCulture

Comedy, the Holocaust and the Jews in USF’s ‘Funny Jews’ course

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 25, 2018April 25, 2018
From the cover of "Love That Bunch" by Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Posted inCulture

Pioneering underground comics artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb has nothing to hide

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 23, 2018April 23, 2018
Veteran comics artist Trina Robbins (Photo/Jessica Christian)
Posted inCulture

Veteran of underground comics scene adapts her father’s Yiddish tales

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 31, 2017November 2, 2017
Art from the new graphic novel based on "Diary of Anne Frank"
Posted inCulture

Anne Frank’s diary is now a comic book

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz September 11, 2017
Posted inTalking With ...

A rabbi’s son who just opened a comic book shop

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 1, 2015November 8, 2025
Posted inUncategorized

Superfan: East Bay rabbi amasses 17,000 comic books and counting

by Rachel Leibold May 6, 2011December 23, 2020

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