The Late Harvey Pekar's Book on Yiddish Coming Soon!

Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land is edited by Pekar and Paul Buhle. There's a preview waiting for you if you click the link embedded in this post's title. I can't wait to tell my ENGL 3327 class about it!

What are you waiting for? Mench up and stop being a putz! Go read it! ;)

Sarah Lightman's Mini Documentary: Women in Comics

Some of this stuff is so "like, whoah!" Click the link embedded in this post's title to view the documentary.

Vanessa Davis' Passover Webcomic

Material for my Jewish American Literature: The Graphic Novel course just keeps popping up! :)

"Jews and Superheroes" Cartoon from EV Comics

Thanks to Barry D for sharing this link and offering to skype with ENG 3327 next semester!

TT Prof Talks Comics, Holocaust

You Know You Wish you Were Enrolled at UTEP Come Fall 2011!

BOO-YAH! Fall 2011: ENGL 3327: Jewish American Literature

Sub-topic "The Graphic Novel." FINALLY, I'm teaching a graphic novels course in the English Department here at UTEP. I'm not Jewish, but there is a rich backlog of texts and articles dealing with comics-and-judaica connections. What an exciting challenge to put together a course list and to have to choose from all the great comics and graphic novels out there!

Expect to see -- for sure! -- a lot of Eisner and Sturm, some Spiegelman, Crumb's Genesis, some Superman comics, some Stan Lee, probably some Kominsky-Crumb. Anyone know if Chris Ware is Jewish? Hey, I'm trying here!

Sequential Tart Reviews *Graven Images*

There's still a chance that I mught be using this book as a textbook for a GN-related course next Autumn, so I'm happy to start stockpiling some reviews.

"Confessions of a Graphic Novel Convert" Article from *LA Times*

Sonja Bolle makes me spell "bat mitszah." This makes me wonder, how the hell have I been blogging for 5 years now and never put a "judaica" search term in my list??? I know I've covered Jewish connections, at least, but now: search term/label time!