Visualizing Jewish Narrative

Examining a wide range of comics and graphic novels - including works by creators such as Will Eisner Leela Corman Neil Gaiman Art Spiegelman Sarah Glidden and Joe Sacco - this book explores how comics writers and artists have tackled major issues of Jewish identity and culture. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars in contemporary comic book studies <i>Visualizing Jewish Narrative</i> highlights the ways in which Jewish comics have handled such topics as: <br/> <br/> -Biography autobiography and Jewish identity<br/> -Gender and sexuality<br/> -Genre - from superheroes to comedy<br/> -The Holocaust<br/> -The Israel-Palestine conflict<br/> -Sources in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish myth<br/> <i><br/> Visualizing Jewish Narrative </i>also includes a foreword by Danny Fingeroth former editor of the <i>Spider-Man </i>line and author of <i>Superman on the Couch</i> and <i>Disguised as Clark Kent</i>..