Full Description
The comics within capture in intimate, often awkward, but always relatable detail the tribulations and triumphs of life. In particular, the lives of 18 Jewish women artists who bare all in their work, which appeared in the internationally acclaimed exhibition "Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women."
The comics are enhanced by original essays and interviews with the artists that provide further insight into the creation of autobiographical comics that resonate beyond self, beyond gender, and beyond ethnicity.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments: Imagetextlines—Confessions of
Co-Curator, Editor and Artist (Sarah Lightman)
Part I: Introductions
Graphic Confessions of Jewish Women: Exposing Themselves Through Pictures and Raw Personal Stories (Michael Kaminer)
Sticking Their Tongues Out at the World (Dan Friedman)
The Latest Revolutionary Chapter? (Zachary Paul Levine)
Telling Their Own Stories (Sarah Jaffe)
Part II: Essays
Herstory of Jewish Comic
Charlotte Salomon, Graphic Artist (Ariela Freedman)
The Book of Sarah—Life or Reconstruction? Situating Sarah Lightman's Illustrated Diary (Pnina Rosenberg)
Mi Yimtza? Finding Jewish Identity Through Women's Autobiographical Art (Evelyn Tauben)
Our Drawn Bodies, Our Drawn Selves
Fetal Attractions: Diane Noomin's "Baby Talk: A Tale of 3 4 Miscarriages" (1995) and My Journal of a Miscarriage, 1973 (Joanne Leonard)
Graphic Lesbian Continuum: Ilana Zeffren (Heike Bauer)
Traces of Subjectivity: The Embodied Author in the Work of Ariel Schrag (Natalie Pendergast)
Comic Comedy
The Turd That Won't Flush: The Comedy of Jewish Self-Hatred in the Work of Corinne Pearlman, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Miss Lasko-Gross and Ariel Schrag (David Brauner)
The Comedy of Confession (Judy Batalion)
Part III: Interviews
Bernice Eisenstein and the Persistence of Memory (Michael Kaminer)
How to Understand Sarah Glidden in 2,000 Words or Less (Michael Kaminer)
Sarah Lazarovic: On Politics, Big Glasses and Not Shopping (Michael Kaminer)
"A portrait of the world through my eyes": An Interview with Miss Lasko-Gross (Tahneer Oksman)
Thinking Panoramically: An Interview with Lauren Weinstein (Tahneer Oksman)
"I thought hand wringing about my peculiar form of British-Jewish assimilation was a little niche I had": Corinne Pearlman Lays Down Her Jewish Cards (Paul Gravett and Sarah Lightman)
From the Other Side of the World to North America: An Interview with Racheli Rottner (Noa Lea Cohn)
Part IV: "Graphic Details": Artists, Artworks and Confessions
Vanessa Davis (Tahneer Oksman)
Bernice Eisenstein (Malcolm Lester)
Sarah Glidden (Julia Wertz)
Miriam Katin (Ranen Omer-Sherman)
Aline Kominsky-Crumb (F. K. Clementi)
Miss Lasko-Gross (Rob Clough)
Sarah Lazarovic (Alison Broverman)
Miriam Libicki (Ranen Omer-Sherman)
Sarah Lightman (Roger Sabin)
Diane Noomin (Sarah Lightman)
Corinne Pearlman (Arthur Oppenheimer)
Trina Robbins (Rachel Pollack)
Racheli Rottner (Ariel Kahn)
Sharon Rudahl (Paul Buhle)
Laurie Sandell (Michael Kaminer)
Ariel Schrag (Noah Berlatsky)
Lauren Weinstein (Nicole Rudick)
Ilana Zeffren (Gil Hovav)
About the Contributors
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