Ben Katchor, born in Brooklyn, New York, is a cartoonist. Best known for his strip and radio drama series based on the character Julius Knipl, Katchor teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His works appear in the Forward and the New Yorker. Katchor has received the Isaac Bashevis Singer Prize in Literature, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a MacArthur fellowship.
The American Jewish community is only beginning to come to terms with the meaning of this prostitution of Judaism to the status quo, and it is doing so…
Bar-El uses found materials as base materials, painting and writing directly onto street signs, discarded furniture, posters, and other objects that he scavenges from the streets of Tel Aviv…
[While the song from the radio can still be heard, Israelsits motionless, in such a way that it is hard to tell whether he is checking a test, thinking, or is just sunk in his place. Later, suddenly…