DC Comics drops plans for Jesus superhero series after complaints
Author Mark Russell blasts pressure from 'fundamentalists' who have 'twisted his teachings of mercy for the powerless into a self-serving tool of the powerful'
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New Haggadah told in graphic novel format is a comic book lover’s seder sidekick
Jordan B. Gorfinkel, a DC Comics alum, and Erez Zadok, of 'Bundle of Joya' fame, partner to create a Passover story to read and see, in Hebrew and English
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Silver Surfer as Rabbi Eliezer? Stan Lee book unmasks superheroes’ Jewish roots
Released April 21, Liel Leibovitz's biography posits that not only are many superheroes Members of the Tribe, but their philosophies are bound up in tradition, too
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Life of 16th-century heiress, philanthropist and crypto-Jew hits Italian comics
The true story of Gracia Nasi, whose courage and charity helped countless hidden Jews like herself during the Inquisition, is retold in 'The Wandering Jewess'
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Stan Lee was not as marvelous as he and Marvel wanted us to think
Journalist Abraham Riesman digs deep into the life of Marvel Universe founder, questions presumptions about credit he took for creating major superheroes and their stories
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Overlooked Jewish female artist from comics’ golden age escaped real WWII peril
Vienna-born Lily Renee Phillips fled Austria after the 1938 Anschluss, escaped to England on a Kindertransport and reunited with her parents in New York in 1940
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Daily Briefing July 22 – Will massive Team Israel net 7 medals at Tokyo 2020?
Amy Spiro explains who is going for the gold (or silver or bronze); Jordan Hoffman highlights a new Barry Sonnenfeld musical series and a book convinced that Superman was Jewish
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Was Superman a hidden Jew? Author of new 400-page scholarly tome is certain
Roy Schwartz’s recent, massive 'Is Superman Circumcised?' devotes serious thought to what a previous generation of thinkers may have shrugged off as nonsense
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Remembering Neal Adams, a comic book legend who championed Holocaust awareness
The man who revolutionized how comics are drawn is remembered for his activism - particularly on behalf of artists in an industry that has historically had many Jewish influencers
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Famed Israeli comic artists explore new worlds with NFT collection
Maya and Yehuda Devir, the pair behind a viral series of illustrations, delve into new tech to deliver new art
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‘Maus’ creator Art Spiegelman to receive honorary US National Book Award
Foundation says cartoonist 'captured world’s imagination' with graphic novels. His 'groundbreaking work has shown us the limitless possibilities for comics as a literary art form'
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Israeli cartoonist says Marvel copied superhero Sabra, he’d sue if he had the...
As Shira Haas is cast as Israeli heroine in next Captain America film, Uri Fink recounts creating Sabraman two years before Sabra emerged, and warns portrayal might be anti-Israeli
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Hunted by the mafia, Italian author teams up with Israeli artist in graphic...
In new cooperative work 'I'm Still Alive,' Roberto Saviano and Israeli Asaf Hanuka depict the author's life on the run since famously exposing the Camorra crime syndicate
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How Marvel’s short-lived but overtly Jewish Black Panther flew under the radar
Decades after the character's 1966 debut, writer Christopher Priest created a twist in the storyline that some may find surprising The post How Marvel’s short-lived but overtly Jewish Black Panther...
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Here’s what Jewish New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s dreams are made of
The acclaimed illustrator, who has been at the magazine since 1978, takes readers on a nighttime tour of her phantasmagorical mind in her latest book, 'I Must Be Dreaming' The post Here’s what Jewish...
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