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'Maus' creator Art Spiegelman in the film 'Disaster is My Muse,' being screened December 12, 2025, at the Jewish Film Festival in Jerusalem (Courtesy Manifesto Production)
December 11, 2025, 10:37 am
Movies on non-Zionist ‘Maus’ creator among diverse features in capital’s Hanukkah film fest
Jerusalem Cinematheque’s annual Jewish Film Festival, running Dec. 13-18, captures Jews’ varied voices, including two docus on Art Spiegelman, who doesn’t even want to think about Israel
By Jessica Steinberg
On stage, Gianmarco Soresi jokes about being the son of a Jewish mother and an Italian Catholic father. (Dalvin Nichols via JTA)
September 18, 2025, 1:57 am
Jewish comic Gianmarco Soresi makes a punchline out of his mixed feelings for Israel
The ‘comedian to watch,’ who built a following of over 1 million on TikTok alone with videos of his ad-libbed banter with club audiences, releases a new special on his YouTube channel on Sept. 19
By Steve North
Comic books are displayed in Gene Yang's home on April 1, 2025, in San Jose, California (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
April 18, 2025, 7:59 pm
As Superman turns 87, scholars reflect on hero’s religious undertones
The Man of Steel, dreamed up by Jewish teens in the 1930s, still inspires a unique reverence around the world that seems to border on the transcendent
By DEEPA BHARATH and BOB SMIETANA
Kaplan poses under the JewCE logo at JewCE: The Jewish Comics Experience at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, November 10, 2024. (Jay Deitcher)
December 4, 2024, 5:03 pm
He wrote the history of Jews in comics. Now he’s making Jewish comics history
At the annual JewCE con in Manhattan, Arie Kaplan, who exposed the industry’s Jewish roots, discusses the rise of overtly Jewish characters and what an Oct. 7 comic might look like
By Jay Deitcher
A work by manga artist Makoto Tanaka, who created a graphic novel about former hostage Noa Argamani and will be a guest at the August 6-10, 2024 Animix Festival in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy: Makoto Tanaka)
August 1, 2024, 11:05 pm
Animation event to host artist behind Noa Argamani graphic novel
Annual Animix Festival will focus on works created since October 7, including guest Makoto Tanaka, Japanese illustrator and Israel supporter
By Jessica Steinberg
Artist and author Miriam Libicki. (Elizabeth Karpen, via JTA)
June 4, 2024, 6:08 am
Vancouver comics festival apologizes for excluding Jewish artist who served in IDF
After backlash, VanCAF says most board members involved in decision to ban Miriam Libicki have resigned; despite walkout, Seattle museum recommits to exhibit on antisemitism
By Andrew Lapin
Cartoonist Roz Chast attends The Hatter's Mad Tea Party: 2018 Moth Ball at Capitale on June 5, 2018 in New York City. (Ben Gabbe/Getty Images for The Moth/AFP)
November 29, 2023, 1:41 am
Here’s what Jewish New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s dreams are made of
The acclaimed illustrator, who has been at the magazine since 1978, takes readers on a nighttime tour of her phantasmagorical mind in her latest book, ‘I Must Be Dreaming’
By Risa Doherty
Kevin 'Kasper' Cole temporarily succeeded T'Challa, the original Black Panther. (Marvel Comics via JTA)
June 11, 2023, 2:42 am
How Marvel’s short-lived but overtly Jewish Black Panther flew under the radar
Decades after the character’s 1966 debut, writer Christopher Priest created a twist in the storyline that some may find surprising
By Eric Schulmiller
Detail from 'I'm Still Alive,' by Roberto Saviano, illustrated by Asaf Haunka. (Courtesy Boom! Studios)
November 12, 2022, 2:39 am
Hunted by the mafia, Italian author teams up with Israeli artist in graphic memoir
In new cooperative work ‘I’m Still Alive,’ Roberto Saviano and Israeli Asaf Hanuka depict the author’s life on the run since famously exposing the Camorra crime syndicate
By Giovanni Vigna
Israeli comic book artist and writer Uri Fink holds a book at the annual Animix festival for animation, comics and caricature in the Tel Aviv Cinemateque on August 2, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 11, 2022, 11:45 pm
Israeli cartoonist says Marvel copied superhero Sabra, he’d sue if he had the means
As Shira Haas is cast as Israeli heroine in next Captain America film, Uri Fink recounts creating Sabraman two years before Sabra emerged, and warns portrayal might be anti-Israeli
By Michael Bachner
This undated image shows cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who will receive an honorary National Book Award this fall. He will be the first cartoonist to win the Distinguished Contributions to American Letters medal from the National Book Foundation, which previously has awarded Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Robert Caro. (Nadja Spiegelman via AP)
September 9, 2022, 6:03 pm
‘Maus’ creator Art Spiegelman to receive honorary US National Book Award
Foundation says cartoonist ‘captured world’s imagination’ with graphic novels. His ‘groundbreaking work has shown us the limitless possibilities for comics as a literary art form’
By Hillel Italie
New illustrations in the new NFT collection, 'xoxo,' of Israeli comic artists Maya and Yehuda Devir. (Courtesy)
May 12, 2022, 8:02 pm
Famed Israeli comic artists explore new worlds with NFT collection
Maya and Yehuda Devir, the pair behind a viral series of illustrations, delve into new tech to deliver new art
By Ricky Ben-David
Neal Adams poses in his office in New York, April 14, 2008. (Nicholas Roberts/AFP via Getty Images/ via JTA)
May 12, 2022, 3:48 am
Remembering Neal Adams, a comic book legend who championed Holocaust awareness
The man who revolutionized how comics are drawn is remembered for his activism – particularly on behalf of artists in an industry that has historically had many Jewish influencers
By Rafael Medoff
Henry Cavill portrays Superman in 'Man of Steel.' (AP/Warner Bros. Pictures, Clay Enos)
July 24, 2021, 2:21 am
Was Superman a hidden Jew? Author of new 400-page scholarly tome is certain
Roy Schwartz’s recent, massive ‘Is Superman Circumcised?’ devotes serious thought to what a previous generation of thinkers may have shrugged off as nonsense
By Jordan Hoffman
The glove of Israel Olympic baseball player Jake Roseberg sits on the field at Salt River Fields spring training facility, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Israel has qualified for the six-team baseball tournament at the Tokyo Olympic games which will be its first appearance at the Olympics in any team sport since 1976. (AP Photo/Matt York)
July 22, 2021, 2:38 pm
Daily Briefing July 22 – Will massive Team Israel net 7 medals at Tokyo 2020?
Amy Spiro explains who is going for the gold (or silver or bronze); Jordan Hoffman highlights a new Barry Sonnenfeld musical series and a book convinced that Superman was Jewish
By ToI Staff
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