Eli Valley
By Eli Valley
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Culture Never Miss an Opportunity
Ghoulish gazers get to ogle a horrifying Halloween history from the Forward’s Artist in Residence, Eli Valley. Gasp at the graphics and view the visceral video if you dare, dear reader. Video: Nate Lavey Eli Valley is the Forward’s artist in residence for 2011–2012. His website is www.evcomics.com.
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Culture Missing Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse rose to fame on the back of a series of stunning vocal performances. The Forward’s Artist in Residence, Eli Valley, pays homage to her artistic genius and reflects on his own reactions to her tragic death as well as the media response it occasioned.
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Culture Code Name: Evangelator
Artist-in-Residence Eli Valley draws up a sci-fi fantasy in which Benjamin Netanyahu concocts a solution to the deepening divide between American Jews and Israel. Eli Valley is the Forward’s artist in residence for 2011–2012. His website is www.evcomics.com.
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Culture The Trial
“The Trial” — Eli Valley’s first comic as the Forward’s artist in residence — is a Kafka-Knesset mashup. The arc of the story and the narration in each of the panels are taken directly from Franz Kafka’s classic novel “The Trial,” about a profoundly bewildering arrest, prosecution and punishment. In panels 1-8, the words of…
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Culture The Four Sons
Eli Valley draws the Four Sons expressing their views on how we in America might understand Egyptian freedom: Click on the thumbnail to the right for a larger version: Eli Valley is finishing his first novel. His column, “Comics Rescued From a Burning Synagogue in Bialystok and Hidden in a Salt Mine Until After the…
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Culture Helen’s Head
In Eli Valley’s latest satirical comic, the Jewish community finds salvation in an unlikely source. Click on the thumbnail to the right for a larger version: Eli Valley is finishing his first novel. His column, “Comics Rescued From a Burning Synagogue in Bialystok and Hidden in a Salt Mine Until After the War,” appears monthly…
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Culture Stuart the Jewish Turtle Goes to South Africa
The World Cup may have focused the world’s attention on South Africa, but when cartoonist Eli Valley’s angry protagonist, Stuart the Jewish Turtle, hops a plane to Johannesburg, it’s not to see the games. Stuart’s gone on a mission to stop Judge Goldstone from attending his grandson’s bar mitzvah, and he meets Michael Oren, Alan…
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Culture Bucky Shvitz
For his latest comic, Eli Valley embraces the genre of hard-boiled detective noir with a hero determined to solve an epidemic of lost identity. Click on the thumbnail to the right for a larger version: Eli Valley is finishing his first novel. His column, “Comics Rescued From a Burning Synagogue in Bialystok and Hidden in…
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