Jewish Comics Issue of Shofar

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
Winter 2011 Vol. 29, No. 2

Special Issue: Jewish Comics
Special Issue Editor: Derek Parker Royal
Editor, Philip Roth Studies

Contributors to This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

“Shaloman”
Al Wiesner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Articles:

Jewish Comics; or, Visualizing Current Jewish Narrative: Editor’s Introduction
Derek Parker Royal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Thinly Disguised (Autobio)Graphical Stories: Will Eisner’s Life, in Pictures
Lan Dong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

The Search: A Graphic Narrative for Beginning to Teach about the Holocaust
Wendy Stallard Flory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Marvel Comics and the Golem Legend
Robert G. Weiner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Jews and Super Heroes
Eli Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73


The “Outsider”: Neil Gaiman and the Old Testament
Cyril Camus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

“You Wouldn’t Shoot Your Fellow Jews”: Jewish Identity & Nostalgia in Joann Sfar’s Klezmer
Nicole Wilkes Goldberg and James Goldberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

There Goes the Neighborhood: Cycling Ethnoracial Tensions in Will Eisner’s Dropsie Avenue
Derek Parker Royal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale: A Bibliographic Essay
Hye Su Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Topical Book Reviews:

Masters of the Comic Book Universe Revealed!, by Arie Kaplan
and
From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books, by Arie Kaplan
reviewed by Samantha Baskind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches,
edited by Samantha Baskind and Ranen Omer-Sherman
reviewed by Barry Laga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation
of the Superhero, by Danny Fingeroth
reviewed by Christopher Gonzalez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Jews in America: A Cartoon History, by David Gantz
and
Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American
Art Form, edited by Paul Buhle
reviewed by Amy Karp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Cartoons and Extremism: Israel and the Jews in Arab
and Western Media, by Joël Kotek
reviewed by Pamela J. Rader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Art Spiegelman: Conversations, edited by Joseph Witek
and
Backing into Forward: A Memoir, by Jules Feiffer
reviewed by Ranen Omer-Sherman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179


The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius
of Comics, edited by Denis Kitchen & Paul Buhle
and
Kirby: King of Comics, by Mark Evanier
reviewed by Thomas Lolis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Man of Rock: A Biography of Joe Kubert, by Bill Schelly
reviewed by David Walton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Harvey Pekar: Conversations, edited by Michael G. Rhode
reviewed by Jordana Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist, DVD,
directed by Andrew D. Cooke
reviewed by Tiel Lundy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193