Originally published in Jewish Currents, January 9, 2019, after Donald Trump said it was “disgraceful” for newly-sworn-in Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib to use a profanity in saying “We’re gonna impeach the motherfucker.”
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Originally appeared December 27, 2018, as Republicans, and the Jewish right in particular, escalated their attacks on progressive activists for often tenuous connections to a doddering 1980s-era anti-Semite while they themselves continued to embrace, facilitate, and celebrate the rise of Neo-Nazism in America.
For more on the Republican Party and Jewish right’s obsession with Louis Farrakhan, click here and here.
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A doodle, originally appearing November 19, 2018, following years of Nazi-allied Republicans — after having seized all three branches of the U.S. government — grandstanding and policing the Left for its alleged associations with a 1980s anti-Semitic college-lecture-circuit clown.
For more on the American Jewish right’s obsession with Louis Farrakhan as it allies and merges with anti-Semitic white supremacists and literal Nazis, click here and here.
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Originally appeared November 10, 2018, on the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
I started drawing this in June, in reaction to Trump Administration policies -- especially, at that time, family separation. There was some controversy at the time over whether Holocaust analogies were appropriate. I was bewildered by the insistence that nothing can be compared to the Holocaust -- which did not emerge out of nothing, overnight -- unless and until genocide was complete. It seemed to me to be the wrong way to learn from history!
Anyway I put the art aside because of all the other horrors, but the Kristallnacht anniversary made me want to finish it. Pittsburgh gives it added resonance, but it is not meant to be exclusively about Jews. It's about the country's slow but methodical march into white supremacist authoritarianism and (arguably for lack of a more precise term) fascism.
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Originally published in Jewish Currents, November 6, 2018.
After the mass murder at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue — the worst anti-Semitic terror attack in American history — Donald Trump came under renewed scrutiny for presiding over the GOP-Nazi Party’s slide into overt white supremacism and anti-Semitism, and for having methodically blared anti-Semitic dog whistles that led directly to mass murder at the synagogue. In the aftermath of the terrorism, Trump’s defenders insisted he couldn’t be an anti-Semite, as his daughter and son-in-law are both Jewish.
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Originally appeared October 29, 2018, after the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh — the worst anti-Semitic terrorist attack in American history.
Although the murders were directly inspired by the GOP-Nazi Party’s systematic vilification of George Soros in the runup to the 2018 Midterm Elections, they followed Benjamin Netanyahu’s similar vilification of Soros, demonization of refugees via further attacks on Soros, and alliance with the ideologies that form the core of the modern-day GOP-Nazi Party.
In the aftermath of the horrific pogrom, neofascist-allied members of Israel’s governing coalition visited Pittsburgh, underscoring the divide between the American Jewish community and Israel’s virulently anti-Semitic leaders who pretend to represent us.
Scroll down for video footage of a presentation by Sasha Senderovich of the University of Washington that unpacks the comic and its contexts.
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Originally appeared September 25, 2018.
The art was inspired by the right-wing “doppelgänger” conspiracy conceived to exonerate Brett Kavanaugh without forcing Republicans to publicly question the credibility of Christine Blasey Ford. It was also inspired by the 80s teen movies defense of an alleged rapist in his seamless path to the Supreme Court.
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Originally published in Jewish Currents, September 10, 2018.
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Originally appeared in The Nib as part of a series of essay comics on the Russian collusion investigation, August 29, 2018. Click the link for the full series.
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Originally published in Jewish Currents August 3, 2018.
The Speaker of the House had boasted of his newly discovered Jewish heritage despite leading a party that has welcomed, supported, and embraced anti-Semitic, ethnic-cleansing-advocating white supremacists.
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Originally appeared July 30, 2018. Here’s an explainer.
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Originally published in The Nib, July 24, 2018, in the aftermath of Israel’s passage of the controversial “Nation State Law.”
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Originally published in Jewish Currents, July 9, 2018, after a seemingly endless cascade of articles about Dershowitz’s supposed ostracism from the multi-millionaire vacation enclave for his support of and strategizing with the hero of American Nazism.
For the other reference, google Dershowitz + Epstein + plane.
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Originally published in The Nib, July 5, 2018.
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Originally published in Jewish Currents, June 27, 2018.
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Originally published in The Nib, May 23, 2018.
The comic uses actual writings and remarks by New York Times Op-Ed Columnists, with adjustments for geography and nationality, in the aftermath of Israel’s massacre of 62 Gazans marching to protest their mass confinement on May 14.
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Originally published in Jewish Currents, May 14, 2018, on the occasion of the cataclysmically controversial move of the American Embassy to Jerusalem.
Aside from its overt references to the normalization of American Nazism perpetrated by pro-Israel stalwarts, the comic depicts the Embassy itself as the Third Jerusalem Temple. A core motivation for Orthodox Jewish and Evangelical Christian Zionist support for the Embassy move — and for the codification of apartheid in Israel/Palestine more generally — is the messianic vision of a rebuilt Jerusalem Temple atop a destroyed Al-Aqsa Mosque. A week after the comic came out, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman posed with an artist’s rendition of this very vision. After an uproar, Friedman — an avid supporter of ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem and the West Bank — claimed he didn’t realize the Jerusalem Temple depicted in the photo was, in fact, the Jerusalem Temple.
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Originally published in Jewish Currents, April 26, 2018, after pro-Israel activists vilified and demonized Natalie Portman (often with barely-concealed misogynistic subtexts) for pulling out of an award ceremony that would have required her to normalize Israel’s authoritarian government in the midst of its unrelenting assaults on Gaza.
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Originally published April 19, 2018, on the occasion of Israel’s 70th Independence Day. It features Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose unrelenting attacks on Jews and refugees have received Netanyahu’s astonishing yet predictable support.
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Originally published in Jewish Currents, March 27, 2018.
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A Hanukkah card/comic originally published in Jewish Currents, December 14, 2017.
Each of the quotes in the comic — one for each night of Hanukkah — are 100% real remarks made by white supremacist Mort Klein, who heads the extremist Zionist Organization of America. Despite vociferously defending and honoring the most strident white supremacists and Nazi allies of our time, Klein has not been excommunicated or even sidelined in the Jewish community, and continues to provide Jewish and mainstream media outlets with op-eds and insights normalizing the rise of Nazism in the midst of America’s national nightmare.
For Hanukkah 2016 I drew him with the equally rancid Matt Brooks of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
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Originally appeared December 11, 2017.
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Originally published December 4, 2017, after the devastatingly destructive "Tax Plan," concocted in large part by Gary Cohn and Steven Mnuchin while normalizing the white supremacism and authoritarianism of the Administration, made it through the Senate.
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Originally published November 27, 2017.
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Originally published in The Nib, November 13, 2017.
A "Headline Comic" based on this story, also inspired by innumerable religious leaders defending Moore despite multiple allegations of sexual assault and child molestation.
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Originally published in Jewish Currents on September 18, 2017.
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Originally published in The Nib, August 14, 2017.
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Originally published in The Nib, August 7, 2017.
The Yiddish in the final panel translates to:
Great-Grandfather: But – the land of freedom!
Great-Grandmother: Freedom to shit on your roots.
For more on Stephen Miller's genealogy, click here or here.
Scroll down for an MSNBC segment in which I discuss the comic and broader issues pertaining to complicity with the Trump administration.
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Originally published in The Nib, July 11, 2017.
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Originally appeared June 27, 2017, in the wake of Republican outrage at the tone of protests against their health care bill.
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In memory of Adam West after his passing on June 9, 2017.
Originally published in The Nib, June 12, 2017.
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Originally published June 5, 2017, in light of Trump's outlandish response to the London Terror attack of June 3 and his concomitant disregard for most instances of homegrown white supremacist terror.
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Originally published in The Village Voice, June 1, 2017.
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Originally published May 31, 2017.
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Originally published in The Nib, May 15, 2017.
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Originally published in +972 Magazine, April 6, 2017. Theodor Herzl is the founder of modern Zionism.
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Originally published in The Nib, March 27, 2017.
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Originally published March 15, 2017, along with four other artists, on the appropriateness of Nazi imagery to describe the current catastrophe. All five comics can be seen here.
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Originally published with If Not Now March 3, 2017.
To read actual remarks on Trump and his administration by the American Jewish leaders pictured in the comic, click here and scroll down.
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Originally published February 25, 2017, for The Nib's roundup of actual panels at that week's Conservative Political Action Conference.
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Originally released February 15, 2017, on the occasion of Netanyahu's visit to the United States and to announce my upcoming comics collection, Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel. For more on the anthology, click here.
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Originally appeared in The Nib, February 9, 2017.
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Scroll down for a presentation at The National Museum of American Jewish History on March 26, 2017, in which I discuss this comic in the context of our current national nightmare.
Originally appeared in Current Affairs, January 28, 2017.
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Originally appeared January 10, 2017.
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Originally published in The Village Voice, January 3, 2017.
I discussed the comic, among other things, on MSNBC January 5; scroll down for the video.
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A Hanukkah comic featuring Morton Klein of the Zionist Organization of America and Matt Brooks of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Both organizations defended and embraced white supremacists in the White House while excoriating the progressive Democratic leader Keith Ellison with spurious charges of anti-Semitism.
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Originally published in The Village Voice, December 8, 2016.
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Cover illustration for the Swedish magazine Judisk Kronika, November 30. 2016.
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Originally published in The Nib, November 28, 2016.
The image is based on this photograph from the Warsaw Ghetto.
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On the horror of Sheldon Adelson donating millions towards the hero of American Neo-Nazism. More broadly, while a majority of American Jews opposed Trump, a vocal minority have supported him -- and have even defended his fascistic, white nationalist and anti-Semitic counselors -- on the grounds that Trump will greenlight accelerated ethnic cleansing in Palestine.
Originally published (well, tweeted) November 16, 2016.
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Originally published in The Nib, November 10, 2016.
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Originally published in Gawker, July 5, 2016, after another weekend in which Donald Trump pillaged campaign materials from white supremacist and neo-Nazi websites and then lashed out at his critics.
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Originally published by +972 Magazine, April 19, 2016. Inspired by the "In Every Generation" passage in the Haggadah (see here for example).
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Originally published by Jews for Bernie, March 9, 2016.
For background, see articles in The New York Times or The Washington Post.
I spoke about the comic in a panel on Jewish Peoplehood here (my sermonizing begins at about 14:40); scroll down here for a youtube version on this page.
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Originally published in The Daily Dot, January 14, 2016. Seven weeks after the comic appeared, it came true to life in a Republican National Debate.
"SCHLONGED!" was subsequently chosen for the Best American Comics 2017 anthology. Scroll down for the book launch panel discussion.
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Originally published in The New Republic, November 17, 2015. For links to actual statements made by the Republican presidential candidates, click the links below the comic at The New Republic.
For more on the parallels, see this piece published the same day.
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Originally published in The New Republic, August 7, 2015, after the murder of 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsheh (his father and mother later died from the same attack).
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Originally published in The New Republic, May 14, 2015.
"Bigoted, unfunny" - Abe Foxman
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Originally published in The New Republic, March 23, 2015.
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Another comic on Netanyahu's speech to Congress, originally published in The Nation, March 2, 2015. Bonus: Thematically it's something of a companion comic, down to the image of MLK, to this one.
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Originally published in The Nation, February 11, 2015.
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Originally published in The New Republic, January 14, 2015, in the aftermath of the massacre of Charlie Hebdo staff.
I spoke about the comic and satire in general on CNN's "Reliable Sources" here.
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A comic on the aftermath of the Gaza assault, originally published in +972 Magazine, September 15, 2014.
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Originally published in +972 Magazine, August 19, 2014.
For background, see this article from CNN.
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Originally published in The Forward, August 14, 2014.
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Originally published in +972 Magazine, August 6, 2014.
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Originally published in +972 Magazine, August 3, 2014.
For background on the anti-war movement, see this CNN report. For more of Malcolm Hoenlein's response to "If Not Now," see this article in The Jerusalem Post (although the headline has a typo; "Anti-Israel" should read "Anti-War").
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Originally published in +972 Magazine, July 30, 2014, in the fourth week of the war.
Background: In 2009, after the Goldstone Report accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes, Alan Dershowitz accused the renowned South African judge Richard Goldstone of being a traitor and akin to Josef Mengele. For Alan's earlier encounter with Goldstone, see this comic.
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Originally published in +972 Magazine, July 25, 2014.
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Originally published in +972 Magazine on July 17, 2014, and in The Nation July 30, 2014.
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Originally published in The Nation, issue of August 4-11, 2014.
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Originally published in The Forward, July 8, 2014. Based on the horrific murder of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir and the ethical gymnastics that ensued (including here and here). In response to the comic, the editor of the once-great Commentary levied the bewildering charge of Nazi functionary.
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Originally published in +972 Magazine, May 14, 2014.
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A comic for Passover 2014, originally published in +972 Magazine, April 13, 2014. For more on "Dayenu," click here; for more on African asylum seekers in Israel (complete with further Passover connections), click this article, this article, or this PDF.
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Originally published in The Forward, January 27, 2014.
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Originally published in The Forward, December 30, 2013.
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Originally published in Alternet, December 16, 2013.
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A Halloween comic based on this report on what Abraham Foxman thinks of American Jews. Originally published in The Forward, October 28, 2013.
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Originally published in The Forward, May 14, 2013.
For background on Hawking's decision and the ensuing outrage, see The New York Times, CNN, and The Guardian.
After the comic appeared, the columnist and translator Hillel Halkin published a piece insisting that such a work should never have been allowed to appear in a Jewish newspaper.
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Originally published in The Daily Beast, January 24, 2013, after Yair Lapid surprised many with his strong showing in the Israeli elections.
Widely considered a "centrist" on peace despite behavior to the contrary, Lapid's reputation seemed confounding.
For a somewhat obscure topic, this one might be especially esoteric, so here's a key: Cottage cheese refers to this, E1 refers to this. Finally, events after the election have seemed to bear out the comic's skepticism.
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Originally published in The Forward, December 7, 2012.
The background to the story can be found in this New York Times article.
The synagogue, B'nai Jeshurun, is widely considered a bastion of progressive Jewish politics and values in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country. The rabbis' about-face on an email expressing support for the Palestinian cause was surprising, but even more surprising, to me at least, was the outrage the comic engendered. The Forward printed some of the reactions here, and then additional reactions here. A Johns Hopkins student wrote a thoughtful piece exploring the issue for New Voices. Finally, weeks after the comic came out, further details emerged on the influence of wealthy donors on rabbinic values and progressive thought.
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A Golem/Frankenstein/Sci-Fi/Horror comic for Halloween, originally published in The Forward, October 29, 2012.
This year's Halloween trick comes from Commentary, which dubbed the piece "Anne Frankenstein." The Halloween treat comes in the form of this delightful rejoinder and overview of my work in general. Oh, a bonus (arguably): I discuss the comic in this podcast, starting at the 18:12 mark, and refer to it in this discussion.
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Originally published in The Forward, July 12, 2012. For background on the topic, watch this CNN Special Report, or see the links to several reports in this NYT Public Editor column. For background on the anti-internet hysteria, see this or this.
I discussed and debated the comic with Forward reporter Paul Berger, who has covered the issue of Orthodox sex abuse, in this podcast.
Click here for Bucky's first case.
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Originally published in +972 Magazine, May 14, 2012. Discussed in Breitbart and by Abe Foxman, and systematically denounced by the targets of the comic's satire. Then The Jerusalem Post ran a follow-up story.
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Originally published in The Forward, February 24, 2012. I discussed the comic in this podcast.
In October 2013, after participants in a panel discussion seemed to be reading from the comic's script, The New York Times picked up the comic in its coverage of the event.
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Originally published in The Forward, November 15, 2011. For a podcast discussion, click here.
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A Halloween comic originally published in The Forward, October 27, 2011. For a podcast discussion, click here.
Halloween Trick: Commentary comments.
Halloween Treat: Scroll down for another lovely video by Nate Lavey (his previous video accompanied The Trial).
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Reflections on the life, passing and remembrances of Amy Winehouse. Originally published in The Forward, September 20, 2011.
I talk about the piece in a podcast here.
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Originally published in The Forward, July 21, 2011.
Click here for a podcast in which I talk and talk and talk.
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Originally published in The Forward, June 1, 2011.
The comic is a mashup of Kafka's "The Trial" and the Israeli Knesset's hearings into JStreet on March 23, 2011. All the dialogue in the comic's arrest and prosecution scenes comes directly from the Knesset hearings, which can be viewed here.
Scroll down for a making-of video by Nate Lavey, and for the poster for the debut of the multimedia presentation based on the comic, Euro+Trash: Kafka, Comics and Collisions of Culture.
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Originally published in The Forward, April 13, 2011. For background on the tradition of the Four Sons in the Passover Haggadah, scroll down here.
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Originally published in The Forward, September 29, 2010.
Click here for a podcast that covers some aspects of this comic and others (starting at the 6:26 mark).
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Originally published in The Forward, June 29, 2010.
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Originally published in The Forward, May 26, 2010.
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April 2010, originally published in the Winter 2011 issue of the journal Shofar. For the full Table of Contents of the issue, click here. The entire volume was reprinted as Visualizing Jewish Narrative: Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels, (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016).
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Originally published in The Forward, March 25, 2010.
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A comic for Purim. Originally published in The Forward, February 17, 2010. Partly inspired by this widely-circulated photo. The title refers to The Goldstone Report and Israel's reaction to it.
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Originally published in The Forward, January 13, 2010.
After an ultra-Orthodox Jewish leader referenced the comic in an essay on the Haiti earthquake, it was covered on Gawker. It also led to discussions and debate on Harry's Place, Jewschool, Tablet, the Italian Moked, Bleeding Cool and elsewhere. Click the Forward link for citation of sources.
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