false 2543657 1 <B>A treasure trove of Jewish comic book art by both acknowledged masters and little-known stars, from Rube Goldberg to Aline Kominsky Crumb.</B><BR><BR><I>"Jews built the comic book industry from the ground up, and the influence of Jewish writers, artists, and editors continues to be felt to this day."</I>&#151;<I>MAD</I> magazine writer Arie Kaplan<BR><BR>Readers have long cherished the work of comic masters such as Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer, and Art Spiegelman, all of whom happen to be Jewish. Few, however, are probably aware that the Jewish role in creating the American comic art form is no less significant than the Jewish influence on Hollywood filmmaking. Filled with the most stunning examples of this vital artistic tradition, <I>Jews and American Comics</I> tells us how the "people of the book" became the people of the comic book.<BR><BR>With three brief essays by Paul Buhle, the well-known historian of American Jewish life, <I>Jews and American Comics</I> offers readers a pictorial backstory tracing Jewish involvement in comic art from several little-known strips in Yiddish newspapers of the early twentieth century through the mid-century origins of the modern comic book and finally to contemporary comic art, which has at last found its place in museums, in private collections, and on the bookshelves of both critics and millions of avid readers.<BR><BR>Featuring more than two hundred examples of the work of Jewish comic artists going back a century&#151;much of which has been unavailable to the general public for decades&#151;this extraordinary collection will be a major contribution to Jewish and American cultural history. <I>Jews and American Comics</I> is also a gorgeous package, sure to be treasured by comic art lovers and fans of Jewish culture&#151;and destined to become the bar and bat mitzvah gift of the decade. 2551186 26 8 2008 Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form total:7|5:1|4:2|3:4| 7 25 18 1 3 0 false false Thu Aug 20 20:52:26 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 20:53:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 20 22:07:05 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 22:07:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 08 08:40:42 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 08:40:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jun 27 00:57:44 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 00:57:44 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Feb 24 12:18:58 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 12:18:58 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Feb 23 07:42:59 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 07:42:59 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Feb 19 08:03:16 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 08:03:17 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Dec 03 12:01:40 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 12:01:40 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Wed Nov 12 21:09:53 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 21:09:53 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Wed Nov 05 08:27:21 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 05 08:27:21 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Oct 28 14:22:08 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 14:22:15 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Dec 09 12:00:28 -0800 2008 Sat Aug 30 17:34:46 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 09 12:00:31 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Thu Aug 28 08:41:42 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 08:41:42 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed Aug 13 19:44:28 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 19:44:28 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Aug 12 19:10:26 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 19:10:26 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Aug 12 14:32:40 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 14:33:11 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Aug 12 11:50:17 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 11:50:17 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jul 19 12:19:23 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 12:19:29 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2543657