Graphic novel
For The Wise Child, A New Graphic Novel Haggadah
It’s branded as ‘the Haggadah for millennials.’
Monsters, Monsters And More Monsters In a Thrilling Graphic Tale
Prostitution, Weimar Germany, the Holocaust, Vietnam, gender dysphoria and monsters all play a role in Emil Ferris’s thrilling graphic novel debut.
How Whimsical Comic Books Helped One Couple Stay in Love — and Survive the Holocaust
As a Dutch Jewish couple hiding separately from the Nazis, Emmanuel Joels and Hetty van Son were literally drawn together by a comic book of Emmanuel’s romantic invention.
A Graphic Tale of the Bronx's Toughest Jew
Benjy Melendez formed one of the Bronx’s most notorious gangs and later discovered his family’s crypto-Jewish past. If you think that would be a good subject for a graphic novel, you’d be right.
How Graphic Novels Grew in Israel
When Israelis Rutu Modan and Yirmi Pinkus started publishing graphic novels, their decision to work in English was seen as snobbish and unpatriotic — even anti-Zionist.
Comics, Motherhood — and Charlie Hebdo
Miss Lasko-Gross’s poignant ‘Henni’ arrives at a charged moment for cartoons and religion. In the graphic novel the female lead abandons her village in a quest for forbidden knowledge.
Roz Chast
“When your parents are dying, it’s not like a baby, where people want to come over and play with the baby. Somebody comes over and brings you a little onesie or stretchy…. What are they going to do — bring Depends? Or a case of Ensure?”
When Anya Ulinich Plays the Dating Game
In a year of books authored by immigrants from the Soviet Union, Anya Ulinich’s graphic novel ‘Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel’ offers a hilarious take on dating.
Anya Ulinich Makes Her Graphic Debut
“You will stomp us into the dirt,” is how her mother responded to Anya Ulinich’s new tragicomic graphic novel. Paul Berger had a more open view of ‘Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel’!
Matt Freedman's Moving and Inspiring Memoir
Matt Freedman’s harrowing and hilarious ‘Relatively Indolent But Relentless’ is totally unlike traditional memoirs. So is Liana Finck’s graphic review of it.