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Recommended Reading My Influences Are Showing Earlier this week, Liana Finck let us peek behind the curtain at her source material for him comic based on A Bintel Brief. She showed us the first two pages and the… Liana Finck January 27, 2012
Essay The Wedding Guest Liana Finck is adapting old Yiddish press self-help columns into a book. This week, she’s letting us peek behind the curtain at her source material. On… Liana Finck January 25, 2012
Essay A Bintel Brief: A Bundle of Letters Liana Finck’s Bintel Brief comic is currently being serialized in the Forward. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.This… Liana Finck January 23, 2012
Essay Adventures in the Cartoon Trade: Israel, US, and Everywhere Else Earlier this week, Richard Codor wrote about his cartoon education and how he came to write Too Many Latkes! He has been blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Richard Codor December 23, 2011
Essay A Cartoon Education Richard Codor’s most recent book, Too Many Latkes! (Behrman House), is now available. He will be blogging here all week for JBC and MJL.The memory of my cousin… Richard Codor December 19, 2011
Nonfiction Up, Up and Oy Vey!: How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero Simcha Weinstein