Comix Friday: Thumbs up for Crumb’s ‘Genesis’

This week's Jewish Daily Forward has a rave review of R. Crumb's "The Book of Genesis," making me all the more excited for its release next week! It sounds fantastic! Bookforum also has a thumbs-up review.

As a reminder, Crumb will be speaking at the JCCSF at 8 p.m. Oct. 31. Tickets are $30-$50 and seriously, they're going fast (there are only like 10 seats left or something), so if you haven't bought yours yet, do it now!

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Sarah Glidden has some new (?) watercolor images up from her book, "How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less," which will be published by Vertigo in 2010.  The one to the left is my favorite.

I feel like I've written about "How to Understand Israel" before, but I can't find the link. The book is based on Sarah's experience on a Birthright Israel trip, and Heeb magazine had a good interview with Sarah back in June 2008. I can't wait to read the finished book! The art looks wonderful.

I'm also enjoying Sarah's journal comics. Love the one about Sarah Palin.

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Lastly (for this week at least), Vanessa Davis has up a great new comic, "Stick in the Mud" (about a mother-daughter trip to a spa in Calistoga), up at Tablet Magazine (formerly Nextbook). She also did a really good comic last month, "Holy Rollin'," about the High Holy Days.

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Comix Friday is published in the Art Scene blog every Friday, and focuses on Jewish comic artists and Jewish-themed comix. If you know of anything I should be blogging about in Comix Friday, let me know!

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