‘The Rabbi’s Cat’ got your French tongue

Published on January 23, 2013

At only 41, Joann Sfar has enjoyed a meteoric rise in France, rocketing from cartoonist to filmmaker in short succession.

True confessions of an online dating addict #2

By Amy Klein
Published on August 13, 2008

Our heroine decides she has no choice but to return to online dating . . .

Comic book strip draws on old New York

By Amy Klein Religion Editor
Published on June 9, 2008

The Lower East Side first captured Katchor's imagination at a young age. Although he grew up in Brooklyn, he often went to the Jewish immigrant neighborhood with his parents.

Drawing on Sept. 11

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on January 6, 2005

As he outran the toxic cloud of the dying World Trade Center, Art Spiegelman heard the voice of his father, the Holocaust survivor: "The world is treacherous. Keep your bags packed."

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.

A Weekend of Art

By Michael Aushenker
Published on November 19, 1998

It was a dream come true for devotees of revered cartoonist Art Spiegelman last weekend, as the chain-smoking New Yorker flew into town to speak before capacity crowds at Second Generation and Skirball Cultural Center programs.