Suggested Reading

Other Jewish Comics Blogs

Israel & Israelis in Comics Blog
http://israelincomics.blogspot.com/
Companion blog for the presentation "From Tintin to Waltz with Bashir : Israel and Israelis in Comic Books, Comic Strips, and Graphic Novels" at the Association of Jewish Libraries conference in Cleveland - June 22, 2008, which included discussion of Israeli women in comix

Jewish Comics Blog
http://jewishcomics.blogspot.com/
Announcements and discussion of Jewish-content comic books, comic strips, and graphic novels, as well as books, articldes, and lectures about them


Books about Women in Comics


Robbins, Trina. From Girls to Grrlz : A History of Women's Comics from Teens to Zines. (San Francisco : Chronicle, 1999).


Chute, Hillary L. Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics. (NY : Columbia University Press, 2010).




Articles about Women in Comics


D'Amorev Laura Mattoon. Invisible Girl's Quest for Visibility: Early Second Wave Feminism and the Comic Book Superheroine. Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture (Fall 2008), 7(2). http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/fall_2008/d'amore.htm


Dunne, MaryJane. The Representation of Women in Comic Books, Post WWII through the Radical 60's. McNair Online Journal (2009).
http://www.mcnair-program.pdx.edu/MaryjaneDunne_Journal%20Aritcle.pdf


Erenberg, Dan. Strong like an Amazon. The Hunter Envoy, Nov. 16, 2005.


Lavin, Michael R. Women in comic books. Serials Review 24:2 (1998): 93-100.


Sievers, Melissa A. Brains, brawn and breasts : How women are depicted in today’s action/adventure comic books. [Library science Master’s paper, 2003]
http://www.ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2851.pdf




Online Resources about Women in Comics


Library of Congress : American Memory : American Women : Comic Books
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awser2/comic_books.html


The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful : Strong Women in Comics
http://www.eldacur.com/~brons/Comics/Women.html


When Fangirls Attack!
http://womenincomics.blogspot.com/

Women in Comics Wiki
http://womenincomics.wikia.com/wiki/Women_In_Comics_Wiki


Women in Refrigerators
http://www.unheardtaunts.com/wir/



Articles about Jewish Women in Comics


Gravett, Paul. Me and Mr. Crumb. The Independent on Sunday, Mar. 11 2007.
Article about Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb


Karin, Karen. Memoirs in words and pictures. The Women’s Review of Books, Nov. 1, 2007.
Reviews We Are on Our Own, Escape from “Special”, Jobnik, and Bernie ! The Wackiest Jewlipino on Earth!


Kirshner, Sheldon. China’s first graphic novel on the Holocaust. Canadian Jewish News June 2, 2011, p. 36
Article about the book and film A Jewish Girl in Shanghai


Korenman, Alicia R. Princesses, Mothers, Heroes, and Superheroes: Images of Jewish Women in Comic Books and Graphic Novels. [Library science Master’s paper, 2006]
http://web.archive.org/web/20070703013351/http://etd.ils.unc.edu/dspace/bitstream/1901/308/1/aliciakorenman.pdf
The primary sources under investigation include Gilbert Hernandez’s Love and Rockets X, Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s autobiographical works, the X-Men comic books, Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, Joann Sfar’s The Rabbi’s Cat, and J.T. Waldman’s Megillat Esther


Pinsky, Mark I. Faith, religion and comics : Jewish story of Esther is retold as a graphic novel. The Washington Post, May 20, 2008.


Quinlan, Adriane. A real-life comic book superhero. Newsweek, Aug. 9, 2010.
Profile of Renee Phillips, the subject of an upcoming graphic biography
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/30/a-real-life-comic-book-superhero.html


Ribbens, Kees. War comics beyond the battlefield : Anne Frank’s transnational representation in sequential art. International Manga Research Center. Dec. 24, 2010
http://imrc.jp/images/upload/lecture/data/219-233chap15Ribbens20101224.pdf


Tracy, Marc. Pekar’s ‘Jewish Review’ Collaborator Made a Stir. Tablet Magazine Sep. 2, 2010.
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/44455/pekar%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98jewish-review%E2%80%99-collaborator-made-a-stir/




Online Resources about Jewish Women in Comics


Graphic Details the Show
http://graphicdetailstheshow.wordpress.com/
official blog of the travelling exhibition about confessional comics by Jewish women




Catalogs


The Forward produced an 8-page publication given out for free at venues hosting the exhibition “Graphic Details : Confessional Comics by Jewish Women”. The publication includes the following articles : Up Close, Personal & Brutally Specific by Dan Friedman ; Trauma and Triumph by Sarah Lightman and Michael Kaminer ; Neurotocomix? By Eddy Portnoy ; A Revealing Selection by Ranen Omer-Sherman ; How ‘Pushy Women’ Started a Comics Revolution by Trina Robbins ; I am Not a Superhero by Sarah Jaffe  ; From the Inside Out by Ariel Kahn ; ‘The Burgeoning of Brilliance’ by Paul Buhle ; Rottweilers, Please Take Note by F. K. Clementi ; and Note from the Curator of the Cartoon Art by Andrew Farago