GRAPHIC DETAILS: CONFESSIONAL COMICS BY JEWISH WOMEN

Featuring 18 international comic artists.

Vanessa Davis; Bernice Eisenstein; Sarah Glidden; Miriam Katin; Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Miss Lasko-Gross; Sarah Lazarovic; Miriam Libicki; Sarah Lightman; Diane Noomin; Corinne Pearlman; Trina Robbins; Racheli Rotner; Sharon Rudahl; Laurie Sandell; Ariel Schrag; Lauren Weinstein; and Ilana Zeffren

This well-reviewed and often-startling exhibition provides the first in-depth look at a vibrant and prolific niche of graphic storytelling – Jewish women’s autobiographical comics. While the influential role of Jews in cartooning has long been acknowledged, the role of Jewish women in shaping the medium is still largely unexplored. This exhibition of original drawings, full comic books and graphic novels presents the powerful work of artists whose intimate and complex work has influenced the world of comics over the last four decades.

Sophisticated yet raw, nakedly diaristic storytelling is what makes these comics so compelling. By turns funny, outrageous, poignant and embarrassingly intimate, the works reflect each artist’s individual journeys refracted through a distinctively Jewish lens in a pop-culture art form. Some bare their bodies. Some expose their psyches. All are fearless about experiences, emotions, desires, romance and politics.

Curated by Michael Kaminer and Sarah Lightman.

Sponsored by The Jewish Daily Forward

October 1 2010- January 30 2011The Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco.

2011 The Gladstone Hotel, Koffler Centre for The Arts, Toronto

2011 Yeshiva University Museum, New York

and Michigan University, Ann Arbour.

 *Press*:

The Jewish Week, New York,October 4 2011

The Chicago Jewish News 31 December 2010

Animation Insider

Toronto Star November 15 2010

Haaretz Nirit Anderman 11 October 2010

Jweekly Rachel Leibold October 8 2010

New York Times David Itzkoff July 23rd 2010

Bay Area Reporter Sura Wood, 30 September 2010

San Francisco Arts Monthly Jean Shiffman October 2010