1922-2018
An excerpt from the forthcoming graphic novel ‘The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt’ examines the early life of one of the 20th century’s most influential philosophers
The first installment in a new recurring feature showcasing comics, comix, and other forms of narrative art
The question is not as far-fetched as it sounds
G. Willow Wilson, the award-winning Muslim author behind Ms. Marvel, explains what religion can bring to the world of comics
He wasn’t as well-known as Stan Lee, but a very influential, and very Jewish, founding father of American comics
The celebrated cartoonist hid his greatest Jewish reference in plain sight
With a biopic of William Moulton Marston, creator of Wonder Woman, about to hit the screens, why no movies about the Jews who came up with Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman?
An unlikely affair in a Brooklyn synagogue celebrates the Jewish origins of the comics industry
A comic about falling in love with superheroes in Israel, only to see the industry—and childhood dreams—crumble under the weight of capitalism
Reactions to the recent castings of ‘Iron Fist’ and ‘Aquaman’ remind me of the relationship between Jews and comics
A cartoon homage to my two favorites
A compilation of Eric Orner’s cult cartoon Ethan Green gives readers the chance to immerse themselves completely is the life of the gay, Jewish everyman
Pioneering Jewish comic artist credited with inventing the graphic novel
What the magazine’s humorist and artist Dave Berg taught me about Judaism
The influential artist talks about his Jewish Museum retrospective, ‘Mad’ magazine, and how the Shoah trumps art all of the time
A drawing by an American, discovered in a Jerusalem junk shop, reveals German Jewry’s lost grandeur
Israeli Asaf Hanuka crashes the party in Paris, as the comic-strip-obsessed city hosts Spiegelman and Crumb