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New Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art Exhibition on Comics

“House of El” by Joel Silverstein

Beginning Tuesday, October 15th, the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art (along with the Jewish Art Salon) will be featuring a new exhibit: JOMIX – Jewish Comics: Art & Derivation. The show promises a showcase “of cutting-edge creators, reinvestigating traditional genres like superhero, political satire, romance, horror, science fiction and confessionals through a Jewish lens.”

Guest speakers are scheduled to include Joel Silverstein, Richard McBee, and Aimee Rubensteen, Exhibit Curators from the Jewish Art Salon. Introductions will be provided by Yona Verwer, President of the Jewish Art Salon, and Participating Artists include

Shay Charka, Howard Chaykin, Leela Corman, Jessica Deutsch, Aliza Donath, Dorit Jordan Dotan, Josh Edelglass, Zev Engelmayer, Liana Finck, Stuart Immonen, Miriam Katin, Scott Koblish, Michael Korosty, Yonah Lavery, Miriam Libicki, Sarah Lightman, Rutu Modan, Archie Rand, Ariel Schrag, Liat Shalom, Dov Smiley, Joshua Stulman, Arthur Szyk, Deborah Ugoretz, Eli Valley, Julian Voloj, JT Waldman, David Wander, Al Wiesner, Jack Kirby, Joel Silverstein, and Ephraim Wuensch.

A catalogue for the exhibit will be available in September.

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Comics at Universities, Protested and Praised

Andrew Tripp
Andrew Tripp

Some further evidence of religion and comics penetrating ever more deeply into academia…in both a negative and positive light:

  • Bleeding Cool and the German magazine Taz reported that a graphic novel exhibition by the German university of Duisburg-Essen was the subject of outrage and vandalism by Muslim protestors. The “What Comics Can Do!” exhibit included art from Craig Thompson’s Habibi and Rutu Modan’s Exit Wounds that the protestors found offense for their use of the Arabic word for Allah and for presumably pro-Israel sentiments.
  • BU Today, a publication of Boston University, highlighted a recent article in its School of Theology Focus magazine, a profile on pastor Andrew Tripp and his appreciation for superheroes and comics in accomplishing his job. They had a foundational influence on him, he admits, ““The superheroes and the comeback characters spoke to something profound about what it meant to be human.”