Meet Steve Blum

By Adam Wills
Published on July 1, 2012

Foreskin Man gets a new cartoon doppelganger: Smegma Man

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on July 26, 2011

Two Jews on Film: ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ Review

Published on July 21, 2011

Comic book artist Gene Colan dies at 84

Published on July 14, 2011

Comic book artist Gene Colan, a “towering figure” and “one of the giants of the comic book industry,” who drew characters from Batman to Dracula to Howard the Duck for nearly seven decades, died June 23 at 84.

Foreskin Man, meet Vulva Girl

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on June 29, 2011

Artist Evokes Jewish Strength—Overtly

By Rachel Zuckerman
Published on February 19, 2004

Five years ago, veteran comic book artist Joe Kubert visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He expected to be moved, but since he and his parents had escaped from Poland before the Nazi genocide began, he assumed his emotional reaction would be relatively contained. Then, he saw something that struck him profoundly: "Yzeran," the name of the shtetl where he had been born, etched on a wall filled with names of towns that had been completely obliterated in World War II.

This one word began a creative odyssey that found its completion this month, with the publication of "Yossel -- April 19, 1943," Kubert's graphic novel about Jewish resistance during the Holocaust -- artistic, as well as physical -- with the date in the subtitle referring to the start of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

You Don’t Know Jack

By Michael Aushenker
Published on August 23, 2001

Jack Kirby was so influential a comic book creator that in July, Comic-Con International, the industry's largest convention, commemorated the artist's two greatest creations -- the 60th anniversary of "Captain America" and the 40th anniversary of "The Fantastic Four. "

X-Men

By Michael Aushenker
Published on July 13, 2000

Siegel. Shuster. Kane. Just a few names of Jewish storytellers whose restless imaginations fueled a multimillion dollar entertainment business that boomed throughout the 1940s and 1950s, when America was at war and television was in its infancy.