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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
From 'Echoes of October' a graphic novel being published in July 2025 about four children affected by October 7 (Courtesy)
April 7, 2025, 7:22 am
New graphic novel focuses on fictional kids who lost fathers on October 7
‘Echoes of October’ has 4 child narrators, from Tel Aviv, Gaza City, Toronto and Daliyat al-Karmel; each tells tragic story from onslaught; most creators choose to stay anonymous
By Jessica Steinberg
Sisters Dana Modan, left, and Rutu Modan, whose first joint film, 'The Property,' reached Israeli theaters on December 7, 2024 (Courtesy)
December 14, 2024, 12:19 pm
In 1st-ever film made by sisters, Dana and Rutu Modan bring family story to silver screen
In Israeli theaters now, ‘The Property’ is based on Rutu’s graphic novel of the same name, inspired by their father’s roots in pre-WWII Poland
By Jessica Steinberg
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
Rivka Michaeli (left) and Uri Hochman in 'The Property,' the debut film by director Dana Modan based on the graphic novel written by her sister Rutu Modan (Credit Yaron Sherf/July August Deadline Productions and Lev Cinemas)
October 29, 2024, 2:09 pm
Rutu Modan graphic novel ‘The Property’ reaches the big screen
Award-winning book about family secrets in Poland is turned into debut film by author’s sister
By Jessica Steinberg
'Anne Frank, the Graphic Diary' (Ari Folman)
April 6, 2023, 6:42 am
Florida high school removes graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary
Spokesperson for local school district says book ‘not age appropriate’ and was pulled ‘due to minimization of the Holocaust’
By Andrew Lapin
Jordan Gorfinkel edited the DC Batman franchise from 1991-99. (Courtesy of Gorfinkel via JTA)
March 7, 2023, 1:54 am
A graphic novel of the Purim story, from a Batman comics editor
Jordan Gorfinkel and illustrator Yael Nathan release ‘The Koren Tanakh Graphic Novel Esther,’ a biblical story that has it all: ‘Emotions, action, intrigue, battles and redemption’
By Julian Voloj
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
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
A page from 'The English GI,' written by Jonathan Sandler and illustrated by Brian Bicknell. (Courtesy of Jonathan Sandler)
August 19, 2022, 2:27 pm
Graphic memoir paints wild tale of a stranded UK Jew who fought for the US in WWII
In ‘The English GI,’ Jonathan Sandler brings to life an unlikely series of events starting with a class trip to America that led to his grandfather fighting Nazis in a US uniform
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A portrait of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from the graphic novel 'Political Power: Volodymyr Zelensky'(Courtesy)
From the WebJune 3, 2022, 1:18 pm
Zelensky transformed into comic hero in new graphic novel on his life
‘Political Power: Volodymyr Zelensky’ tracks his rise from comedian to wartime leader resisting Russia, includes drawing of him reading from the Torah, UK’s Jewish News reports
Gracia Nasi in Antwerp in a scene from 'The Wandering Jewess,' story by Gianluca Piredda and art by Leo Sgarbi. (Courtesy Piredda)
November 21, 2020, 9:15 am
Life of 16th-century heiress, philanthropist and crypto-Jew hits Italian comics
The true story of Gracia Nasi, whose courage and charity helped countless hidden Jews like herself during the Inquisition, is retold in ‘The Wandering Jewess’
By Giovanni Vigna
Illustrative: A skull of Homo sapiens, al-Kafza cave, Middle Paleolithic Period, ca. 85,000 years ago. (Courtesy Israel Museum)
September 23, 2020, 2:47 pm
‘Sapiens’ graphic novel coming out in October
Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari’s wildly popular work on the origins and nature of humanity will be made accessible to readers who don’t gravitate to science books
By Marcy Oster
Joseph Joanovici's identity card photo, October 1944. (Public domain via wikimedia commons)
October 25, 2019, 7:44 am
Graphic novel depicts French Jew who got rich by helping both Nazis, Resistance
Now in English, award-winning ‘Once Upon a Time in France’ presents the thrilling and complicated life of profiteer Joseph Joanovici, who made millions staying alive at any cost
By Renee Ghert-Zand
In her graphic novel 'White Bird,' R.J. Palacio tells a story of how a young Jewish girl survived World War II in France. (Heike Bogenberger)
October 17, 2019, 4:04 am
‘Wonder’ author explains why today’s news made her write a Holocaust story
When a girl who doesn’t stand up for her classmate ends up getting rescued by him, she, along with readers young and old, learns an important lesson about kindness and empathy
By Emily Burack
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