Wittenberg University, in Springfield, Ohio, will be hosting a discussion series titled, "Modern Marvels: Jewish Adventures in the Graphic Novel".
They will be discussing Will Eisner's A Contract With God, Art Spiegleman's Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Ben Katchor's Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories, Harvey Pekar's The Quitter and Joann Sfar's The Rabbi's Cat.
Graphic novels are, of course, just comic books that intelligent people can read and remain respectable.
They call it literature.
As far as the actual series goes, I think they missed a couple goodies, Joe Sacco's Palestine and Robert Crumb's Kafka.
Palestine is a detailed account of Sacco's visit to his parents homeland to visit friends and relatives. Sacco, an American has neither a great love for Palestine
nor a seething hatred of Israel. A very insightful book -er- graphic novel.
Crumb's biographical Kafka is glaringly missing, however as Crumb's work in underground (independently published) comics took comics out of the realm of the drug store and opened up the comic book world to the diverse publications that resulted in the format we call graphic novels !
The underground comic product helped give rise to a distribution network of head shops, record stores and ultimately specialty comic book stores. In fact it was through this network that Maus first appeared (in serialized format) in Spiegleman's RAW magazine.
Another important Jewish comic book type of guy (though not having a graphic novel to his name) was publisher Bill Gaines. Though not exactly a paragon of Jewish virtue, his no-nonsense approach to freedom of expression and his respect for the creatives who produced it was crucial to the development of the comics environment that spawned the graphic novel. Gaines defended his publications and the work of his artists and writers in the Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency in the 50s but still wound up having to cease publishing anything but Mad magazine. The hearings resulted in a censorship board, The Comics Code Authority. Gaines fought hard against the board that saw fit to "censor" things like black characters.
Panel from "Judgement Day" by artist Joe orlando.
Anyway, maybe next time around, they can include Howard Chaykin's American Flagg.

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