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.
Table of Contents
Sarah Lightman: Preface and Acknowledgments: Imagetextlines—Confessions of a Co-Curator, Editor and Artist (1)
Part I: Introductions
Michael Kaminer: Graphic Confessions of Jewish Women: Exposing Themselves Through Pictures and Raw Personal Stories (18)
Dan Friedman: Sticking Their Tongues Out at the World (21)
Zachary Paul Levine: The Latest Revolutionary Chapter? (25)
Sarah Jaffe: Telling Their Own Stories (29)
Part II: Essays
Herstory of Jewish Comic Art
Ariela Freedman: Charlotte Salomon, Graphic Artist (38)
Pnina Rosenberg: The Book of Sarah—Life or Reconstruction? Situating Sarah Lightman’s Illustrated Diary (51)
Evelyn Tauben: Mi Yimtza? Finding Jewish Identity Through Women’s Autobiographical Art (61)
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) 79
Heike Bauer: Graphic Lesbian Continuum: Ilana Zeffren (98)
Natalie Pendergast: Traces of Subjectivity: The Embodied Author in the Work of Ariel Schrag (110)
Comic Comedy
David Brauner: 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 (131)
Judy Batalion: The Comedy of Confession (149)
Part III: Interviews
Michael Kaminer: Bernice Eisenstein and the Persistence of Memory (162)
Michael Kaminer: How to Understand Sarah Glidden in 2,000 Words or Less (167)
Michael Kaminer: Sarah Lazarovic: On Politics, Big Glasses and Not Shopping (173)
Tahneer Oksman: “A portrait of the world through my eyes”: An Interview with Miss Lasko-Gross (176)
Tahneer Oksman: Thinking Panoramically: An Interview with Lauren Weinstein (185)
Paul Gravett and Sarah Lightman: “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 (195)
Noa Lea Cohn: From the Other Side of the World to North America: An Interview with Racheli Rottner (205)
Part IV: “Graphic Details”: Artists, Artworks and Confessions
Tahneer Oksman: Vanessa Davis (214)
Malcolm Lester: Bernice Eisenstein (219)
Julia Wertz: Sarah Glidden (222)
Ranen Omer-Sherman: Miriam Katin (228)
F. K. Clementi: Aline Kominsky-Crumb (234)
Rob Clough: Miss Lasko-Gross (240)
Alison Broverman: Sarah Lazarovic (245)
Ranen Omer-Sherman: Miriam Libicki (249)
Roger Sabin: Sarah Lightman (253)
Sarah Lightman: Diane Noomin (256)
Arthur Oppenheimer: Corinne Pearlman (262)
Rachel Pollack: Trina Robbins (266)
Ariel Kahn: Racheli Rottner (269)
Paul Buhle: Sharon Rudahl (271)
Michael Kaminer: Laurie Sandell (277)
Noah Berlatsky: Ariel Schrag (283)
Nicole Rudick: Lauren Weinstein (288)
Gil Hovav: Ilana Zeffren (292)
About the Contributors (297)
Index (301)
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