From artist Liana Finck, a new look at old Yiddish advice columns

The amazing Liana Finck has been giving a preview of her new book via the Forward.  It’s an illustrated compendium of old Yiddish advice columns from back in the day.  We can’t wait.

Support great comix art… our Kickstarter campaign is live!

We’re very excited about today’s launch of a Kickstarter campaign to bring Graphic Details:  Confessional Comics by Jewish Women to museums across the country.

If you love comics, and you agree with us that the incredible women in our show deserve a big audience, thanks for supporting the show.

We’d appreciate if you could tell your friends, post on Facebook, shout from window, whatever.

We have 30 days to reach our fundraising goal.

Our donor rewards – including a personal cartooning class, original illustrations, signed books – are amazing.

It’s all here:  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/graphicdetails/graphic-details-confessional-comics-by-jewish-wome

 

ComicBookResources on Trina Robbins and “Lily Renee”

Nice profile of comix pioneer Trina Robbins here.  Graphic Details includes a rare autobio cartoon by Trina, “Big Sister Little Sister”.  Trina’s new book is the acclaimed Lily Renee, Escape Artist.

The Beguiling includes Graphic Details in roundup of 2011′s notable comix happenings…

Totally cool that The Beguiling in Toronto, which co-sponsored Graphic Details there, included us in its roundup of 2011′s notable comix happenings…….

Vanessa Davis. Dance-fitness programs. Cartoon. Need we say more?

We love Vanessa Davis‘ new comic in Tablet.  Read it now!

We’re on the cover of Na’amat, the national Jewish women’s magazine!

Thank you, Na’amat, for this beautiful cover and story, which calls Graphic Details “powerful” and “wonderful”.  Find the issue here.

“Spin dreidel-like to the Yeshiva University Museum”

We love this blurb in today’s GeekChicDaily.  “Most of the pieces on display are autobiographical and, as such, some are downright funny and others are incredibly embarrassing and glum. You know, just like life. Is that a Yiddish proverb?”

Above is an excerpt from Diane Noomin’s amazing “Baby Talk” (1995), by the way.

“Comic Artist at Center of Library Battle”

The artist in question is Ariel Schrag, and the book is Stuck in the Middle, the terrific truth-about-adolescence collection she edited.  Yes, it’s nearly 2012, and people are still challenging books.  One of your humble curators wrote up the situation for the Forward.

We’re in Time Out New York this week!

Check out this week’s Time Out New York, which includes a nice blurb about Graphic Details as part of a story on NYC comics-related exhibits.

Joyce Brabner interview in the Forward accompanies exclusive cartoon

Joyce Brabner’s raising money for a Harvey Pekar memorial in Cleveland.  You should contribute.  Read more about it here……. Michael interviewed her for the Forward this week.  The story includes Ghostwriting, the amazing cartoon Joyce did for the Graphic Details catalog.

Breaking news!  We just read Joyce broke the $30,000 barrier she needed to get the funds. Mazel tov!