Comments on: The Super Cool, Mega-Awesome List of Jewish Comics http://jpsblog.org/blog/2009/12/16/the-super-cool-mega-awesome-list-of-jewish-comics/ Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:31:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steven M. Bergson http://jpsblog.org/blog/2009/12/16/the-super-cool-mega-awesome-list-of-jewish-comics/#comment-2681 Steven M. Bergson Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:11:15 +0000 http://jpsblog.org/?p=1733#comment-2681 The problem (or benefit, depending on how you look at it) with shortlists such as this one (or any "Top __ Jewish ____" shortlists that have been published, is it always leads to discussion / debate about what has been included &/or excluded. Of course, since Jews have a history of debating anything & everything, these types of lists quickly become magnets for comments, cheers, jeers and (naturally) additions to the list (which just maje a "Top 5" into a "Top 100" by the end of the week. I'm going to use this opportunity to humbly submit my top 8. Why 8? One for each night of Hanukkah (and don't forget, tonight we light 6, plus the Shammas). That's teh shammas candle, not comedienne Sandra Shammas. In no particular order : (1) Edge City (trade paperback, collecting pages of strips) You can read the current Edge City online at http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?&name=Edge_City Current storyline has to do with a Chanukah Ball. (2) Dropsie Avenue : The Neighborhoos by Will Eisner This one has something for everyone : humor, drama, Jews, Christians, Italians, Hispanics, blacks, whites, Irish, Dutch, disabled, old, young. A mixture of people & stories --- just like the Bronx it's based upon. (3) Genesis by Robert Crumb. Obne of the best-selling books (the Bible, that is) illustrated by one of the greatest underground cartoonists of all time. And, hey, he actually depicts a circumcision. (4) An Opmakh mit Got by Will Eisner Quite possibly the only Yiddish-language graphic novel ever published. http://www.jiddisch.org/yiddish/eisner/index.htm (5) Hereville by Barry Deutsch Ummm ... do webcomics count? http://www.hereville.com/ Actually, there is going to be a "dead trees" version coming out, courtesy of Abrams. (6) How To Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden There was a mini-comic version (2 parts published) before Vertigo arranged for a full-book edition to be published. http://www.smallnoises.com/comics/how-to-understand-israel-prevew/ (7) Token by Alisa Kwitney There's not too many stories taking place during my teen years (the '80s) about a Jewish teeneager in Florida who becomes a kleptomaniac. (8) Rex Mundi by Arvid Nelson This one has a lot packed into it : religion, politics, war, and a murder mystery. The protagonist is a doctor who was a converted Jew. There's even a golem in it! The problem (or benefit, depending on how you look at it) with shortlists such as this one (or any “Top __ Jewish ____” shortlists that have been published, is it always leads to discussion / debate about what has been included &/or excluded.

Of course, since Jews have a history of debating anything & everything, these types of lists quickly become magnets for comments, cheers, jeers and (naturally) additions to the list (which just maje a “Top 5″ into a “Top 100″ by the end of the week.

I’m going to use this opportunity to humbly submit my top 8. Why 8? One for each night of Hanukkah (and don’t forget, tonight we light 6, plus the Shammas). That’s teh shammas candle, not comedienne Sandra Shammas.

In no particular order :

(1) Edge City (trade paperback, collecting pages of strips)
You can read the current Edge City online at http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?&name=Edge_City Current storyline has to do with a Chanukah Ball.

(2) Dropsie Avenue : The Neighborhoos by Will Eisner
This one has something for everyone : humor, drama, Jews, Christians, Italians, Hispanics, blacks, whites, Irish, Dutch, disabled, old, young. A mixture of people & stories — just like the Bronx it’s based upon.

(3) Genesis by Robert Crumb.
Obne of the best-selling books (the Bible, that is) illustrated by one of the greatest underground cartoonists of all time. And, hey, he actually depicts a circumcision.

(4) An Opmakh mit Got by Will Eisner
Quite possibly the only Yiddish-language graphic novel ever published.
http://www.jiddisch.org/yiddish/eisner/index.htm

(5) Hereville by Barry Deutsch
Ummm … do webcomics count?
http://www.hereville.com/
Actually, there is going to be a “dead trees” version coming out, courtesy of Abrams.

(6) How To Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden
There was a mini-comic version (2 parts published) before Vertigo arranged for a full-book edition to be published.
http://www.smallnoises.com/comics/how-to-understand-israel-prevew/

(7) Token by Alisa Kwitney
There’s not too many stories taking place during my teen years (the ’80s) about a Jewish teeneager in Florida who becomes a kleptomaniac.

(8) Rex Mundi by Arvid Nelson
This one has a lot packed into it : religion, politics, war, and a murder mystery. The protagonist is a doctor who was a converted Jew. There’s even a golem in it!

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