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Trina Robbins (center) with Jan Duursema (left) and Carol Kalish on the "Women in Comics" panel at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con. (Photo/Alan Light CC BY 2.0)
Posted inObituaries

Trina Robbins, 85, the first woman to draw a full issue of ‘Wonder Woman’

by JTA and J. Staff April 24, 2024April 24, 2024

Comic book artist Trina Robbins, the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Belarus, died on April 3 in San Francisco. She was 85. Growing up in Brooklyn, her mother, a New […]

(From left) The Thing, Spidey and Spin in the upcoming Rosh Hashanah episode of "Spidey and his Amazing Friends."
Posted inTV & Film

Spider-Man and his ‘Amazing Friends’ save Rosh Hashanah on preschool series

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky September 12, 2023September 12, 2023
Stan Lee with racks of Marvel comics in New York, June 15, 1978. (Photo/JTA-Santi Visalli-Getty Images)
Posted inFilm

The real story buried in Disney’s new Stan Lee documentary

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar June 29, 2023June 29, 2023
Sabra, the Israeli superhero who will make her screen debut in the fourth Captain American movie played by Shira Haas, first appeared in 1980’s “Incredible Hulk” No. 256, “Power in the Promised Land!”
Posted inComics

Meet Sabra, Marvel’s Israeli superhero, soon to be played by Shira Haas

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward September 14, 2022September 14, 2022
From “When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers” by New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein
Posted inOff the Shelf

New Yorker cartoonist brings to life lost Yiddish essays by European teens of 1930s

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman December 17, 2021December 20, 2021
From the cover of Rutu Modan's new graphic novel, "Tunnels."
Posted inCulture

Dig into Jerusalem’s subterranean history with new nonfiction and graphic novel

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman November 18, 2021November 23, 2021
From the cover of the first issue of "Whistle."
Posted inComics

She’s 16. She’s Jewish. She’s Gotham’s newest superhero.

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward September 2, 2021
Stan Lee with racks of Marvel comics in New York, June 15, 1978. (Photo/JTA-Santi Visalli-Getty Images)
Posted inBooks, Culture, Comics, History

Stan Lee’s complex legacy gets even more complex in new biography

Julian Voloj by Julian Voloj and JTA February 22, 2021
(From left) President of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige, director Taika Waititi, Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth at San Diego Comic-Con, July 20, 2019 (Photo/JTA-Alberto E. Rodriguez-Getty Images for Disney)
Posted inFilm

Natalie Portman will become Thor in upcoming Marvel movie

by JTA and J. Staff July 23, 2019July 23, 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

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