Category Archives: War

Dispatches from the Hunker Bunker #3: Sox, comix & education

Posted on April 5, 2020 by admin

These are my work-out socks- I am training for Themed Sox Week, a celebration of victory over the sock elves, those little mischief makers who steal and then return single socks. Starting tomorrow I will celebrate with a different theme, … Continue reading →

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There and here: Diaspora communities in graphic literature and comix, Part II

Posted on February 16, 2020 by admin

One of the first examples of a graphic narrative about an immigrant’s experience is literature is The Four Immigrants Manga (1931), written and illustrated by Henry Kiyama, 1885-1951). The book went out of print and was lost until it was translated … Continue reading →

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There and here: Diaspora communities in graphic literature and comix, Part 1

Posted on February 2, 2020 by admin

From Wikipedia: “…diaspora is used to refer to the involuntary mass dispersion of a population from its indigenous territories, most notably the Jews who were dispersed from the Land of Israel in antiquity” So I am a member of this … Continue reading →

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Surreal, mythical, and tragic

Posted on February 24, 2019 by admin

These three words describe three graphic novels about the Middle East that I recently read. Actually only two are novels, the third, Mike’s Place, is best more like historical fiction. Each book completely engages the reader via stories that are … Continue reading →

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My own Christmas/Holiday truce

Posted on December 25, 2018 by admin

In the winter of ’75-’76, while serving in an infantry brigade in the Israeli army, I was stationed on Mt. Avital, a mountain on the Golan Heights. Well, actually, it was one of the several extinct volcanoes that dot the … Continue reading →

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Comics against Hitler

Posted on September 23, 2018 by admin

How Jewish comic book artists led the fight to break the silence on the Holocaust https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-jewish-comic-book-artists-led-the-fight-to-show-the-holocaust-1.6462797

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August 6, 1945

Posted on August 6, 2018 by admin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_Gen

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Comix, kids, trauma, and war

Posted on July 18, 2017 by admin

Graphic novels are a great way to read and learn about history. Not so much the grand narratives in history books and textbooks. These books describe big events, and as described by Wikipedia “as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, … Continue reading →

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