Sample Sources
The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
“Le people juif . . . sur de lui-même et dominateur . . .” (“The Jews, a People Sure of Itself and Domineering, . . .” Charles de Gaulle)
Louis Mitelberg drew this cartoon in ironic response to a 1967 comment made by French president Charles De Gaulle in the wake of the Six Day War, in which he described the Jewish people (now that they…
Zoo Eretz Zoo
God creates the universe in seven days. Soon after the job’s done, he throws Adam and Eve out of their place for disobeying orders. The couple…
Peacock Thanksgiving
An imaginary Thanksgiving dinner attended by the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty, George Washington, a Halloween witch, and a strutting peacock. A version of this…
Cookalein
“Cookalein” is a story from Will Eisner’s graphic novel, A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories. The “cookalein” (or kuchalein, “cook for yourself”) was a popular and affordable type of…
American Splendor
“Standing Behind Old Jewish Ladies in Supermarket Lines” is a comic from Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical comic series American Splendor, which focused on everyday life in Cleveland, Ohio. Not an…
Yitzhak Shamir
In this caricature, which appeared in the June 6, 1988, issue of the New York Review of Books during the first Palestinian intifada, David Levine depicts Yitzhak Shamir (1915–2012), the seventh prime…
American Pop
Ralph Bakshi’s American Pop is an animated musical that chronicles the history of American popular music through the story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians. To…
The Minsk Theory of Krypton: Jerry Siegel (1914-1996)
“Up in the sky! It’s a bird!
It’s a plane! It’s…Superman!”
Oh, he was a giant back then. And he may have been a touch innocent, even primitive, but he was unique. One of a kind. And he was like an…
The Story of the Jews: A 4,000-Year Adventure
From The Story of the Jews: A 4,000-Year Adventure, a comic strip history of the Jewish people from biblical times to the end of the twentieth century.
Garnish Greens
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer was a weekly comic strip that appeared in the Forward and other newspapers beginning in 1988. Ben Katchor also published what he calls “picture stories” in book…