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Jeremiah the Friar is a monk filled with joy, awe… and a certain awkward lack of incompetence.Frank Evers is best known for his work on the Op-Ed page of the New York Daily News and other newspapers, which brought him the National Cartoonist Society’s Editorial Cartoon Award in 1979. But getting away from the topic…
An inside look at the lighter side of the cloistered life. “Brother Choleric” was the pen name Dom Hubert van Zeller used when cartooning about the characters he got to know during his sixty years as a Benedictine monk. With droll insight, he highlights the very human foibles that find their way into the lives…
You’ve heard the tales, you’ve watched the movie, but have you seen The Green Book? During the dangerous days of Jim Crow segregation, it was difficult to be an African-American traveler, as hotels that would take you or restaurants that would serve you were few and far between. This was addressed by The Negro Motorist…
This final novel from the acclaimed Robert Mayer is a tale of the horrors of Nazi Germany, the wonders of the American Dream, the tragedies of the American reality, the joys of love, and the magic and the imperfections of human memory.It’s the story of Jewish immigrant Exit Maisel (thank Ellis Island for the name)…
Marty Mulvane is a small-town boy with dreams of a literary career and a lust for bigger things… and also women. New York of the 1970s seems just the place to fulfill all of his desires, but Manhattan women and big-tme publishing both take him down paths he never expected. When opportunity presents itself, what…
Everyone has a funny story, an anecdote they like to whip out when it’s time to amuse. Here are some of the reminiscences, self-mythologizations, and gags spun by some of the 20th century’s most significant figures. Inside are the tales told by everyone from Pope John XXIII to Groucho Marx, John F. Kennedy to Yogi…
In the 1940s, the comics pages of America’s weekly Black newspapers were filled with characters both inspirational and aspirational. In addition to the life stories of great African Americans, there were fictional tales of Black reporters, Black detectives, Black government agents, Black aviators, Black people rising in the ranks of society, even Black superheroes, all…
Years after hanging up his hero costume, The Jam star Gordon Kirby finds himself facing something more difficult than any villain that might stalk the streets of Montreal: the complexities of a mature relationship where the romance has faded. Canadian Hall of Fame cartoonist Befnie Mireault brings all his skills and love of the comics…
“Negro America’s Favorite Cartoonist” That’s what Langston Hughes called Ollie Harrington, whose cartoons and comic strips were a staple of America’s Black newspapers for decades starting in the 1930s. In his single-panel series “Dark Laughter,” Harrington brought out the vibrancy of Harlem life in its day, while serving some cutting looks at the politics of…
Every comics writer brings their own style to their script, and here you’ll find nine example scripts from writers of comics and graphic novels. See how Mark Waid writes a crime tale, Eric Shanower writes an Age of Bronze script for himself to follow, Bryan Talbot writes one for a fellow artist. You also get…
“Dayenu” was a popular cartoon in its day, appearing in over 60 papers across the English-speaking Jewish world. These gags by “Henry Leonard” (in reality the team of writer Rabbi Henry Rabin and artist Leonard Pritikin) are by Jews, for Jews, and very, very much about Jews. Originally published in 1960, this collection is available…
Dayenu cartoons brought laughs to many readers of Jewish newspapers in the 1960s, with their very Jewish eye on the Jewish world – and here is a collection of dozens of them. Written by Rabbi Henry Rabin and drawn by artist Leonard Pritikin (working together under the name “Henry Leonard”). these cartoons were published in…
In the 1950s and 1960s, Anglo-Jewish newspapers around the world carried “Dayenu”, a gag cartoon by, about, and for Jews. Written by Rabbi Henry Rabin and drawn by artist Leonard Pritikin – working together under the name “Henry Leonard” – these cartoons took a wry look at the synagogue, the community, and the world.During the…
0In the mid-1980s, award-winning graphic novel writer Derek McCulloch (Stagger Lee, Gone to Amerikay) teamed with beloved cartoonist Mike Bannon (Oombah, Jungle Moon Man; “Old Paper”) to take on that most sacred of sacred cows: television! Decades later, we can now look back on the work that delivered the final, deadly blow to TV and…
A graphic novel that throws two teens into the excitement and tumult of the American Revolution, delivering the true story of the nation’s founding in an approachable and thrilling manner. When Penny, the hard-working daughter of a tavernkeeper, meets Nick, an orphaned stableboy who lives by his wits (and a few “borrowed” wallets), opposites do…
Sam was born in slavery, Annabelle was born in wealth. They live on the same plantation, but in very different worlds. Now the Civil War is upending life as they’ve known it: Each of their fathers is pulled into the conflict, and armies from North and South have their eyes on Twin Oaks. As Sam…
